Role: Health and Safety Compliance Manager
Location: London
Salary: Competitive Salary, plus benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Why FirstPort?
FirstPort, are on an ambitious journey to redefine excellence in UK residential property management. We are committed to elevating and resetting industry standards to be the most trusted and professional residential property management company.
By joining us as a Health and Safety Compliance Manager you will play a pivotal role in achieving our vision:
- Impactful Work: You will directly support FirstPort’s mission to elevate industry standards and provide an exceptional service to our customers.
- Professional Growth: With access to accredited training and development programmes, you will be empowered to reach your potential.
- Supportive Environment: We foster a culture where collaboration and innovation thrive, ensuring you feel valued and supported every step of the way.
- A Future of Opportunity: Be part of a forward-thinking organisation that is shaping the future of residential property management in the UK.
At the core of everything we do are our leadership principles:
- Collaborative: We work together, combining expertise to deliver outstanding outcomes for our customers
- Consistent: We deliver dependable results, building trust with customers and colleagues.
- Simple: We simplify the complex, ensuring our financial processes are straightforward and understood.
- Clear: We communicate with clarity, making information accessible and transparent to all stakeholders.
Your Role, Your Impact
The Health and Safety Compliance Manager will be responsible for ensuring life safety regulatory compliance by quality assessing GRA’s and associated documents to ensure that the correct life safety actions have been identified. To do this the Health and Safety Compliance Manager will work closely with Building Safety Managers, Fire Safety Managers, Safety Assurance Business Partners, Property Managers, Development Managers and Regional Managers, establish and maintain communications with all stakeholders (internal and external), form and maintain relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Quality assess GRA’s against associated reports and building characteristics
- Liaise with GRA providers to ensure accuracy
- Highlight key document gaps
- Review the Life safety related golden thread issues for the building hazard profile.
- Produce safety risk-based list of actions for operations
- Ensure Data station is updated
- Update Building Safety Managers to ensure engagement message is aligned
- Support operations managers and safety assurance business partners as required with higher level health and safety technical advice and guidance
- Support Management with external enforcement authority liaison
- Support due diligence/mobilisation
- Investigate Health and Safety incidents and provide higher level technical advice and guidance for prevention purposes
- Respond to health and safety emergencies providing higher level technical advice and guidance
- Provide regular reports as required on performance and learning opportunities
Skills & Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in Health and Safety Practice
- Proven experience of reviewing General Building related risk assessments
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the wide range of life safety regulations and requirements, such as electrical, gas, asbestos, DSEAR, le-gionella, LOLER, ect
- Experience of working across functions to deliver results
- Hold industry relevant accreditations such as IOSH, IFSM, CIOB, IWFM, RICS, TPI
- Be passionate about life safety prevention and ensuring that homes under our management are safe for residents
- Hold a full UK driving licence
What’s in it for you?
Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We will provide you with the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages depending on the grade of your role, such as private medical insurance, pension contributions and life assurance. In addition, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you, and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health, including discounted gym membership for all colleagues.
Diversity
We’re committed to promoting diversity at FirstPort and recruit on merit. We will ensure we make any adjustments that we can to support both through the recruitment and on-boarding process.
Ready to make a difference?
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make a difference we’d love to hear from you!
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK without restrictions, and documented evidence of eligibility will be required.
Join us at FirstPort, where we not only manage properties but strive to lead and transform the industry. Together, we can make a difference – for our customers, our colleagues, and the future of residential property management in the UK.
Elevate your career. Reset the standard. Join FirstPort.