Building Safety Project Manager

Job Introduction

Advert - Building and Safety Project Manager (Fire & Safety)

Royal Greenwich is proud to be a borough synonymous with first class modern services.A world heritage site, our communities are vibrant and diverse and our elected members are ambitious to realise the potential of the borough whilst working within a challenging financial environment.

The Repairs and Investment service within the Housing and Safer Communities Directorate, delivers responsive repairs, capital and major works, and all safety and compliance services to our 25,000 Council tenants and leaseholders. We carry out approx. 80,000 repairs a year, and will this year deliver capital programmes of c£30m through a range of contractors.Our repairs service is mainly delivered by our in-house team, with some more specialist services being delivered by external contractors.

As one of London's largest social landlords, our number one priority and focus is the safety of our tenants and our staff members, and a new Compliance team has been created to bring focus and ownership for the business.

We are looking for a qualified, experienced and professional Fire Safety Manager to form part of this service. You will not just be an expert in your field, but understand that process, procedures and good management are key to keeping people safe within homes and our buildings.

You will have the ability and task of advising and managing all aspects of fire safety for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, helping to implement new IT systems, creating new policies and embedding working practices to ensure we are complying with legislation and regulations.

You passion for safety will be matched by your structured approach to managing fire safety within our stock.

The successful candidate will take a managing role, encouraging innovation and looking for ways to do things better.

The successful candidate will have excellent IT, written and communication skills, being at home communicating with residents, key elected members and stakeholders, building a positive 'Can-Do' culture within the service.

We offer great career potential and continued professional development to ensure that we get the best out of you but you receive the best support from us.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role.Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert.When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification . We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Attached documents

• Building Safety Project Manager - JD & PS.pdf