About the vacancy
We’re seeking an experienced Building Safety Manager to lead and manage building safety compliance across our residential portfolio. This role is critical in ensuring full compliance with the Building Safety Act (Wales) 2026, acting as the organisation’s competent person for building safety and the main point of contact with the Building Safety Authority.
In this role you’ll oversee building safety cases, the golden thread of information, resident engagement, and contractor performance, while leading a small specialist team. This is a high‑impact role for a confident professional with strong technical knowledge, leadership skills, and a resident‑focused approach to keeping homes safe.
Responsibilities
* Manage and ensure compliance for all buildings that fall into the scope of the Building Safety Act (Wales) 2026 (BSAW) and subsequent legislation.
* Develop and implement policy and strategies to ensure adherence to these regulations across all in‑scope buildings.
* Establish, maintain, and audit the Golden Thread of building information, ensuring robust digital records of construction documentation, resident safety information, and building control interactions.
* Register in‑scope buildings with the building safety authority and obtain and maintain Building Assurance Certificates.
* Create and maintain building safety cases for all in‑scope buildings.
* Provide assurance to the Principal Accountable Person regarding fire and structural risk assessments, resident communication and safety case reporting, ongoing inspection, maintenance and defect management.
* Lead resident consultation and ensure residents understand their responsibilities, safety procedures and their rights under the BSAW.
* Be the point of contact for any relevant customer complaints or building safety concerns and maintain a visible resident‑facing presence at the buildings.
* Establish and operate a Mandatory Occurrence Reporting regime.
* Develop positive working relationships with the Building Safety Authority, Fire and Rescue Services, Local Authority Building Control and internal teams.
* Monitor and stay up to date with all relevant building regulations, guidance and compliance legislative requirements.
* Oversee and complete existing work remediation programmes for buildings over 11 m affected by fire‑safety defects, supporting survey submissions and funding applications.
* Work with other Hedyn managers to ensure building safety is maintained and their duties and actions are in alignment with the requirements of the BSAW.
* Ensure BSAW performance and measurable metrics are collated and reported to internal and external stakeholders as required.
* The postholder will undertake any other duties that are reasonable, proportionate and commensurate with the grade of the role, as required to support the effective delivery of the service.
* A full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle is essential for the role.
Dimensions & Limits of Authority
* Financial responsibility: Responsible for the areas of the budget related to building safety activities for the organisation, ensuring financial controls including planning and contractor spend monitoring for building safety‑related works.
* People responsibility: Line management for Building Safety Advisor & Building Safety Coordinator.
* Scope: Organisation‑wide property portfolio, all premises that fall under the scope of the BSAW.
Benefits
Enhanced Pension Scheme – attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions of up to 12%.
Enhanced Annual Leave – start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase gradually to 30 days following 3 years’ service.
SMART Working – trusted to manage your time to work in a way that meets the needs of our customers, colleagues and communities.
Health and Wellbeing – cycle‑to‑work scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption supports, a flexible benefits package that allows colleagues to spend £625 towards benefits such as private medical insurance, health cash plan, professional memberships and electric vehicles.
Development – many professional and personal development options, including sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.
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