Asbestos Officer (Fixed Term) WCC624296

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Closing date: 9 July 2026
Contact details for informal discussion: Niamh Gomm, Technical Assurance Lead, via email: [email protected]

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF TIFFENY’S POWERFUL VOICE

At Westminster City Council, we don’t just listen to the voices and experiences of our residents – we listen to our people too. Tiffeny is a single mum whose young son has ADHD and before joining our team, she never thought she’d find a job that gave her flexibility and freedom to support her son’s needs. As a neurodivergent woman herself, she also never expected to be part of a team that not only supports her needs, but actively celebrates them – where people encourage her to be her true self. And that’s what she found here at the City of Westminster.

Working as an Engagement Officer within the corporate property team means that she gets to meet people from all walks of life within the community supporting the development of positive change, especially being the voice for young people where it matters – in education, training, or employment. Her experiences and her amazing ability to relate to others means that within the first few months of joining our team, she’d already made a huge impact on things like accessibility in the Borough. Tiffeny feels heard and that’s because we know how important it is to listen.

The Role:

As Asbestos Compliance Officer, you too can make a powerful contribution. You will harness your expertise to shape how asbestos is managed in our portfolio, ensuring that all our buildings are compliant with statutory obligations.

Westminster is home to 250,000 diverse residents, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people working here every day. Our mission is to create a city for all. We’re also passionate about seeing our employees thrive. That’s why we’re proud to have won Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative in the 2020/21 Business Culture Awards. You’ll be joining the small statutory team, we value working with data and finding out the impact we’ve had on our community.

In this position, you’ll gain asbestos management experience across high-profile and historic buildings. As an industry professional, you’ll bring a strong background in asbestos surveyance, management, health and safety. You’ll be skilled in identifying issues and coming up with solutions. We’d also like you to be an advocate for better ways of asbestos management.

On a regular basis, you’ll conduct site audits and inspections, updating the Technical Assurance Lead with findings. You’ll ensure that asbestos labelling is accurate and up to date across our sites. Alongside this, you’ll review asbestos-related processes, review and issue permits to work. You’ll also support contract oversight, quality assurance, policy updates and statutory reporting, helping ensure our approach remains robust and compliant.

A large part of your role will be data management. You’ll oversee the migration of asbestos data from a previous database to WCC’s CAFM system. Plus, you’ll review historic data, identifying any gaps and providing recommendations.

Join our inclusive, supportive team and have a meaningful impact on asbestos management in Westminster City Council.

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About You:

We’re looking for someone confident working with a large, complex portfolio of buildings, including carrying out site audits. You’ve worked on projects that fall under the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations 2015. You’ve managed delivery survey programmes, re-inspections, remedial works and asbestos contracts. Analysing and managing complex asbestos data comes easy to you. And you’re comfortable using IT systems for monitoring and reporting. You’re able to understand complex asbestos reports and identify where further actions are required.

To do well here, you’ll be happy working independently and as part of a team. You can manage your own workload and prioritise to meet deadlines.

An excellent communicator, you’ll be skilled at writing and presenting. And you’re excellent at stakeholder management.

You’ll bring a relevant qualification in surveying asbestos to BOHS P402 level or equivalent. It would be strongly preferred for you to have a relevant qualification in workplace health and safety to NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent, too.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.