Core Operations Safety & Compliance Director
Bellrock is the trusted challenger in UK property services. Driven by insights, powered by technology, and delivered by talented people, we are redefining how real estate is managed.
Since 2003, our people-first and technology-led approach has helped organisations across the UK transform their estates into high-performance, sustainable environments. Through our integrated service modelspanning Technologies, Consulting, Critical Engineering & Jordon, and Intelligent Asset Carewe deliver compliance, quality, and operational excellence while reducing cost and carbon impact.
Our award-winning Concerto IWMS platform, together with mobile solutions from Mobiess and energy analytics from InMetriks, enables smart, data-led estate management at scale.
The Group Safety and Compliance Director provides strategic leadership and authoritative governance across all aspects of Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Statutory Compliance within Bellrock. The role ensures that Group-wide frameworks, policies, standards and assurance systems are coherent, well governed and consistently applied across all business units and service lines.
This position carries Group responsibility for safety, statutory compliance strategy, governance, oversight of legislative adherence, internal assurance, and coordination of Authorised Engineer/Authorised Person arrangements. Working closely with divisional compliance and safety leads, the postholder sets the organisational direction, provides Group-level scrutiny, and ensures that Bellrock operates safely, efficiently and lawfully in all client environments.
The role strengthens Bellrock’s reputation as a responsible partner by ensuring effective controls, transparent reporting, reduced organisational risk and a confident compliance culture.
How will you be the change?
We believe every role is essential to providing that peace of mind for our customers - whatever part of the business you’re in. Because every role plays a part in driving us further. And everyone can be the change. That’s how deliver value for our customers, and building systems that lead the way
And as the Core Operations Safety Compliance Director with Bellrock, you’ll do it by
Strategic Leadership
* Set the Bellrock strategy for safety, statutory compliance, environment and quality, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities, client obligations and regulatory expectations.
* Translate strategic objectives into a coherent framework covering HSEQ, statutory compliance governance and technical assurance.
* Advise the Executive Leadership Team on emerging regulation, risk exposure, and the organisational implications of changes to the compliance landscape.
* Lead cross-functional programmes to enhance capability, digital systems, and continuous improvement initiatives across safety and compliance.
* Represent the organisation with regulators, industry bodies, auditors and clients to demonstrate strong governance and technical credibility.
Governance, Policy and Standards
* Design, maintain and continuously improve the Group compliance governance model, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities and escalation processes across divisions and service lines.
* Own all Bellrock policies, standards and management system requirements for safety, statutory compliance and AE/AP operations, ensuring they are current, accessible and consistently applied.
* Maintain the Bellrock Integrated Management System to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001.
* Ensure robust processes for risk assessments, safe systems of work, technical policies and compliance documentation across all business units.
Statutory Compliance Oversight
* Provide central leadership and technical direction for all statutory compliance domains, including but not limited to building safety, electrical safety, gas and pressure systems, water hygiene, lifting equipment, fire safety and environmental compliance.
* Maintain the Group statutory compliance framework detailing required controls, monitoring arrangements, competence standards, risk tolerances and audit mechanisms.
* Ensure clear operational interpretation of legal requirements, codes of practice and industry standards, consolidating these into authoritative Group guidance.
* Oversee the central register of statutory compliance performance, including site obligations, risk status, exemptions and escalation actions.
Group Coordination and Divisional Liaison
* Work in partnership with divisional compliance and safety leads who hold local accountability for planned and reactive statutory compliance delivery, day-to-day oversight, client reporting and forward planning.
* Provide direction, challenge and oversight to ensure that divisional practices meet group-wide standards and regulatory requirements.
* Convene and chair The Group Technical Standards Group, ensuring alignment, knowledge sharing, and effective resolution of cross-divisional risks.
* Coordinate technical advice, training and competency frameworks to support consistent capability across all divisions.
Compliance Auditing and Assurance
* Lead the Group’s internal audit and assurance framework for safety and statutory compliance, including thematic reviews, technical audits and deep-dive investigations.
* Ensure audit processes are risk-based, transparent and deliver actionable insights that drive improvement.
* Oversee the response, tracking and closure of actions arising from audits, incidents, regulator inspections, client feedback and internal reviews.
* Provide clear and accurate assurance reporting to ELT and Group Risk Committee.
AE/AP Coordination and Technical Governance
* Oversee Group arrangements for Authorised Engineers and Authorised Persons across all applicable disciplines, ensuring competence, independence of judgement and clarity of duty.
* Establish and maintain Group rules, procedures and technical policies governing AE/AP activities.
* Ensure consistent application of safe systems of work, permit-to-work requirements, technical assessments and engineering controls across all business units.
* Provide high-level challenge to complex or high-risk engineering decisions, ensuring risks are fully understood and appropriately controlled.
Performance, Reporting and KPIs
* Define the Group compliance performance framework, including leading and lagging indicators, risk thresholds and reporting requirements.
* Ensure accurate, reliable and analytically robust reporting through Group dashboards for the Executive Leadership Team, Board and operational leaders.
* Lead periodic performance reviews and governance meetings, identifying trends, root causes, emergent risks and required mitigation.
* Oversee the development of annual compliance and safety targets and external benchmarking activity.
Incident Management and Learning
* Provide oversight of significant incidents, ensuring that investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions are thorough, timely and preventative.
* Ensure that organisational learning is captured, analysed and shared across the Group to prevent recurrence and reinforce expectations.
Culture and Engagement
* Shape a positive, proactive and accountable safety and compliance culture across all levels of the organisation.
* Lead campaigns, engagement activity and leadership visibility programmes that reinforce safe behaviours and responsible compliance.
* Promote effective communication, clarity of expectations and widespread understanding of statutory duties across all colleagues and partners.
Leadership of the Group Safety and Compliance Function
* Lead the Group team of safety, quality, technical and compliance specialists, ensuring professional capability, resilience and appropriate structure.
* Establish clear objectives, performance standards and resource plans to support safe and compliant operations across all business units.
* Develop team capability through coaching, mentoring and clear succession planning.
* Foster effective collaboration between central and divisional teams to ensure consistent application of standards and continuous improvement.
What does it take?
If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as the Core Operations Safety Compliance Director, you’ll need
* Substantial technical background in hard services, engineering maintenance and building services compliance.
* Chartered Engineer status (CEng) or working towards it, through a recognised professional body such as the IET, IMechE or CIBSE, demonstrating deep professional competence and commitment to engineering governance.
* Comprehensive understanding of engineering legislation, technical standards and statutory regimes, including PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, F-Gas, electrical safety regulations, and relevant fire and building safety requirements.
* Strong working knowledge of national maintenance and engineering standards, including SFG20, HTM guidance, and industry codes of practice governing plant, equipment and building systems.
* Proven experience overseeing complex engineering compliance arrangements, including permit-to-work systems, safe systems of work, engineering authorisations (AE/AP roles) and the governance of high-risk technical activities.
* Demonstrable capability to evaluate engineering risks, challenge technical judgements, and make authoritative decisions on safety, statutory compliance and asset integrity at Group level.
Your core qualities and attributes
* Strategic thinker able to translate policy into operational realities across dispersed and multi-disciplinary teams.
* Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels and within client environments.
* Confident, credible leader with a proactive and pragmatic approach.
* High integrity and a strong sense of personal accountability.
* Able to balance commercial, operational and compliance priorities.
* Skilled communicator capable of simplifying complexity for diverse audiences.
Working arrangements
We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from either our Sheffield or Leicester office and working two days a week with the team and the rest of the week can be worked from home.
What can we offer you?
Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
Salary exchange pension scheme
Life cover
Paid sick leave
Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
Private medical insurance
Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
Healthcare Cashplan
MotorSave Scheme
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Helping you to shine
We’ve always encouraged new and different perspectives - and that also means making ours a workplace that encourages diverse and unique voices. Where everyone feels welcome, included, and supported to be themselves and achieve more.
So, if you join us, you’ll find an inclusive workplace that recognises your hard work, offers lots of learning and development, flexible and hybrid working, and support for your wellbeing. As well as benefits that can make a difference to your life.
Ready to start shining?
Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to shine. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you’re ready to start your career journey with Bellrock, we’re ready to welcome you. It’s a great place to be - the light, the energy, the solution. You.
Apply today.