Senior Property & Safety Manager

Senior PropertySafety Manager – Enhanced Housing Management Team

Location: Hybrid – London

Salary: £42,000-£48,000 (Dependant on experience and level of qualifications)

Contract type: Permanent, Full time – 35 hours per week

A2Dominion is trialling a new approach to combine building safety requirements and housing management for our high-rise buildings. Do you want to join the journey to shape our housing management model for the future?

A2Dominion is a residential property group with a social purpose to improve people’s lives. While we take a commercial approach to housebuilding, we reinvest all our profits into building more new homes and supporting the communities in which we work.

We’re a strong player in our field and we’re part of the G15, a group of the largest housing providers in London. We’re proud of our commitment to our customers.

As a Senior Property & Safety manager you will work within a newly created team whose vision is to achieve outstanding building safety and management standards in our highest risk buildings.

We are looking for individuals who are confident in dealing with residents from all our main tenures, understand estate finances, have a working knowledge of relevant legislation and experience in either housing management or building construction and safety. You will need excellent communication skills as you will have to present information to a wide variety of audiences and build relationships with key stakeholders.

In return, you will be part of and organisation that cares not only about its customers, but also the careers and lives of its staff as well. There are brilliant opportunities to develop throughout the years at A2D generally and specifically within this role, we will offer a comprehensive training plan for all members of the team including:

• IRPM all the way to MIRPM if not already attained
• Training and qualification as an FRA inspector
• Other training courses and materials being explored by A2D in line with fire safety
• Exploration of RICS qualifications to further technical knowledge

More about the role:

• The focus of this role will be service delivery for: fire safety and compliance; estate expenditure and budgets; resident engagement; estate management strategy documentation; and contract management
• Be the responsible person for ensuring your building and asset information is captured and maintained in the appropriate IT system and to the highest possible standard
• Take responsibility for keeping up to date with building safety legislation and take an activate role to support your Head of Department with the review of our services and management to ensure it is aligned with legislation
• Draft, implement and manage the management strategies for your estates and buildings to achieve the highest level of safety, customer satisfaction and with a low customer effort required
• Work collaboratively with Building Safety Manager to develop, maintain and manage the building Safety Case (the principles of life safety, including fire safety and building compliance, for the management of the building) for A2Dominion population of “tall/complex buildings”
• To carry out and monitor regular estate inspections, ensure accurate records are maintained and actions are taken promptly and resolved at the earliest opportunity. Ensure that the information gathered is to the highest level and recorded in the required systems to support the building and safety management
• Take ownership and responsibility for the management of your building – compliance servicing, responsive repairs, planned maintain
• Taking responsibility to support internal stakeholders and build strong relationships with your residents, onsite staff and contractors.

More about you:

• Has IRPM or CIH membership or equivalent suitable qualification
• Has (or willing to study for) a relevant fire safety qualification or equivalent
• Experience of delivering residential property management in private or public housing sector or technical knowledge of fire safety and building construction
• Knowledge of current housing & building safety legislation, best practise and up to date case law
• Experience of adopting a continuous improvement approach and adapting to change.

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk.

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”

The closing date for this role will be Friday 16th February 2024 and interviews will be scheduled from the week commencing 19th February 2024.

We reserve the right to close the advert sooner should suitable candidates meet the criteria.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £42,000.00-£48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London