Assistant Director of Building Safety

Working With Us, You’ll Enjoy

• Competitive pay & generous pension
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits

Diversity And Inclusion At Riverside

We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.

Riverside is a Disability Confident Employer and operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicant who declares they have a disability. If the applicant meets the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.

This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to be considered.

Role Profile

• Lead the approach across the Group for Building Safety, controlling all building activities to ensure full compliance with the Building Safety Order including any secondary legislation, ensuring all statutory and regulatory obligations are met.
• Act as the Accountable Person with responsibility for understanding fire and structural risks in our buildings and taking appropriate steps and actions to mitigate and manage those risks on an ongoing basis so the building can be safely occupied, specific responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of the structure and outside of the building, and the plant room and common parts.
• Lead on engagement with key strategic external stakeholder including local government, building safety regulator, housing ombudsman, fire and rescue service.
• Lead a team of heads of service responsible for Fire safety inspections, day to day management of fire safety risk including servicing, maintenance and remediation, property management function managing our national shared spaces portfolio and undertaking regular site functional testing and safety inspections and service charges for contracted services to shared spaces and building safety registration and management of our high risk portfolio.
• Lead our strategic approach to evacuation and emergency plans are in place for the building and business continuity and recovery plans and scenario planning and testing to plan for an emergency, attending site as required.
• Lead health and safety investigations any incidents, non-compliances including the production of specific action plans to address the original issue and avoid future recurrences
• Lead our customer engagement approach through development and implementation of customer engagement strategy and introduce individual customer engagement plans for our High-Risk Buildings. Embed our minimum customer offer across all shared spaces.
• Provide specialist professional and technical advice to effectively coach and mentor to improve knowledge and understanding of fire safety, resident engagement and compliance aspects relating to property management.
• Oversee the design, planning, scheduling, and implementation of an effective and timely risk-based program of Safety inspections on behalf of the Group, ensuring adherence to relevant regulatory, statutory and compliance frameworks.
• Design and scope all relevant statutory compliance contracts in conjunction with procurement colleagues, ensuring contracts include clear quality and performance standards and measurement requirements for the Group to support effective contract management and service improvement.
• Lead our Fire & Structural Safety assessment programs including fire risk assessment, intrusive fire investigation through type 4 FRA (Fire Risk Assessment), compartmentation surveys, external wall surveys and ensure appropriate action and controls are implemented and recorded to mitigate risk impacting customer safety.
• Commission internal departments, external suppliers, and in-house delivery vehicle to introduce control measures, undertake remedial actions and complete safety critical work. Providing guidance, support and ensure competence of all appointments
• Work with colleagues and stakeholders across the business to ensure consultants are validated, materials are appropriate and delivery of works to our buildings are appropriately managed, quality checked and tasks and works undertaken within building do not compromise the safety of customers.
• Sustain strong relationships with our internal Development function to inform the specification of new buildings and ensure that all relevant information is provided on completion to meet our statutory obligations.
• Support the Groups duty-holders to understand their legal responsibilities at each stage of the building’s lifecycle including occupation to ensure the building is safe for its residents at different stage of the building life.
• Register and maintain appropriate “Building Registration Certificate” for all in scope high risk buildings with the Building Safety Regulator on behalf of the Groups Licensed Duty Holder and ensure no buildings are occupied without the appropriate certification issued by the regulator.
• Ensure any mandatory, special, or voluntary conditions attached to the Building Registration Certificate are complied with to the satisfaction of the Building Safety Regulator.
• Develop and implement appropriate mandatory inspections and occurrence reporting regime both internally and externally with the Building Safety Regulator
• Evolve our Building Intelligence Model (BIM) and create and maintain a digital golden thread of building information related to fire and structural safety to ensure that the original design intent and any subsequent changes to the building are captured, preserved, and used to support safety improvements.
• Liaise with group stakeholders and submit any applications for building work to the Building Safety Regulator. Ensure no building works start before Building Safety Regulator approval, lead on any engagement with the building safety regulator including any inspections or agreement to change and provision of all relevant information to demonstrate that residents’ safety can be assured throughout, and that the Building Safety Manager has appropriately engaged with residents.
• Monitor statutory and regulatory inspections to buildings and work with the group compliance managers and supply chain partners to ensure all inspections and risk mitigation works are completed in line with policy timescale and appropriate risk level, to high quality and to the satisfaction of customers and ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement to ensure the building is always safe for occupation.
• Develop, implement, and monitor the operational effectiveness of Building Safety policies, procedures, and guidance on behalf of the Group, including the provision of training considering up to date legislation, amendments to codes of practice, health and safety requirements and industry best practice, proactively adopting new and innovative ideas and solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the service.
• Lead Repairs and Maintenance service to shared spaces contractor's work for their impact on building safety, inspect completed works and ensure standards are to the highest quality

Additional Information

• The Group has offices across the UK and on this basis, there may be the requirement to travel to other locations to effectively perform this