Building Safety Coordinator
Full Time Salary
£32,600
Employment Type
Full time
Hours Per Week
35
Region
Greater Manchester
Location
Fusion apartments, Middlewood Street, Salford, M5 3TP
Contract Type
Permanent
Job Type
Property Services
Closing Date
24/02/2026
Ref No
2662
What you can expect from us
* We offer a competitive salary of £32,600 per annum.
* 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
* Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
* Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
* Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%)
* A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
* Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
* Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme
* Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
* Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
We are looking for a Building Safety Coordinator to join our Building Safety Team on a permanent basis.
About the role
Purpose of role: The Building Safety Coordinator provides essential operational, administrative and coordination support to the Building Safety Manager to ensure all higher risk buildings (HRBs) are safe, compliant and well managed in accordance with the Building Safety Act 2022. The role supports the golden thread of information, action tracking, resident engagement, surveys and day to day communication between contractors, internal teams and resident.
Responsibilities:
Compliance: Maintain building safety records, and documentation required for the golden thread. Coordinate site inspections, fire door checks, compartmentation surveys and routine building safety visits. Update evacuation information, signage, noticeboards following guidance from the BSM. Support monitoring of site, structural and compliance action trackers. Carry out daily and weekly building safety checks. Report any breach of occupancy terms to Neighbourhood colleagues. To assist with the implementation and co-ordination of Fire Safety, Fire Evacuation and security arrangements within your buildings to ensure a safe and compliance working environment.
Health, Safety and Security: Support the BSM with compliance monitoring under the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act and Fire safety (England) Regulations. Log incidents, building safety concerns, near misses ensuring timely escalation. Assist with mandatory reporting processes and regulatory evidence requests. Maintain filing and digital records for risk assessments, strategies and building safety evidence. Carry out PEEPS, and RPEEPS in collaboration with the Neighbourhood Delivery Team. Act as a First Aider on behalf of the business.
Contractor Management: Coordinate contractor access, appointment scheduling and resident notifications. Ensure contractors provide RAMS, photographs, certificates and completion evidence. Track progress of FRA actions, fire door repairs and replacements, compartmentation works and validation surveys. Attend joint inspections with the BSM and contractors recording key findings.
Customers Provide: a high quality responsive and customer focused service; including listening and responding to customers within the high rise/high risk blocksto ensure their voice is heard and that customers feel safe and secure within their home. Assist with resident engagement activities such as meetings, drop ins and information sessions. Support building safety concerns process, logging issues and preparing responses. Maintain resident communication logs, and ensure updates are shared in a timely manner Help prepare building safety summaries, notices and resident information packs for distribution
Partnership Working: Work collaboratively with partners including the Primary Fire Authority, Local Fire and Rescue Service, Police, Local Authority and other relevant stakeholders to ensure effective management and compliance including disaster recovery within the premises. Liaise with Repairs, Neighbourhoods, Customer Services regarding building safety tasks. Support communication with fire engineers, structural engineers and external specialists. Work closely with the Building Safety Manager, including joint ownership of Building Safety Case development and continuous improvement. Collaborate with internal teams and external specialists to support gathering, assurance and validation process for higher risk buildings
Additional Responsibilities: Jointly author and contribute to Building Safety Case (BSC) Reports, working collaboratively with the Building Safety Manager and wider compliance teams to ensure accuracy, completeness and regulatory compliance. Support the harvesting, validation and collation of date for BSC, including structural, fire and compliance information, ensuring data and integrity and audit readiness. Provide constructive feedback on Resident Engagement Strategy content and processes, supporting continuous improvement in documentation quality, governance arrangements and assurance processes.
Skills, experience and knowledge required
Essential:
* Experience of delivering high levels of customer service and demonstrating good communication skills with customers, colleagues, and partners.
* Experience of applying company policies to the day-to-day management of premises.
* Experience of managing contractors, working to contractual specification to deliver high quality performance incorporating a permit to work system.
* Experience of working proactively with colleagues and residents to develop services and improve customer satisfaction.
* Knowledge of safety, compliance, and fire procedures.
* Experience and knowledge of working in the housing sector, or other similar sectors (e.g. education, managing other public buildings).
* Experience of working independently and with colleagues as part of a team.
* IT skills – basic knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
* Basic numeracy and literacy skills.
* Full UK Driving Licence and access to your own car
Desirable:
* Experience in working with tenants and residents' groups contributing to Resident Engagement Strategies.
* Project Management experience
Qualifications:
Essential:
* Educated to GCSE standard including Maths and English.
* Hold a recognised Building Management or Fire Safety qualification (i.e. CIOB Level 6 Building Safety Management, BSC Fire Safety and Risk Management) or be willing to work towards.
* First Aid Certificate
Desirable:
* A relevant industry or building management qualification e.g. premises management training or qualifications.
* P901 legionella Management and Control.
* Asbestos awareness.
* HNC or equivalent in the construction or housing management sector
About Onward Homes
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.
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