Building Safety Lead
Location: Maidstone - Hybrid
Salary: £65,000 per annum
Employment type: Full Time, Permanent
Closing Date: 23rd December 2025
About the role
We are seeking a proactive Building Safety Lead to own and drive our comprehensive building safety framework, ensuring adherence to all legislation and regulatory requirements while championing a genuinely customer‑centric safety culture.
This critical role involves taking full ownership of creating, maintaining and validating Building Safety Cases for all Higher‑Risk Buildings (HRBs) and managing essential intrusive investigations and complex remediation projects end‑to‑end. You will proactively address safety concerns, implement solutions and lead a forward‑thinking team committed to ensuring customer safety and peace of mind.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Lead the strategic direction, development and implementation of Golding Homes building safety framework, ensuring compliance with the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety regulations and broader H&S legislation.
* Provide strategic advice on financial planning, capital expenditure and operational budgets to meet all building safety obligations.
* Proactively track industry changes, policy developments and emerging risks; source, trail and procure cost‑effective products and innovative technologies that reduce risk.
* Direct and manage a programme of complex, intrusive structural and fire investigations across Golding Homes housing stock; analyse data to inform and integrate remedial actions into the wider capital works programme.
Key Qualifications
* Chartered membership of a recognised professional body such as IOSH, CIOB, RICS or IFE, or working towards it.
* Relevant health & safety qualification such as NEBOSH National General Certificate, or a higher qualification such as the NEBOSH Diploma.
* Proven leadership experience in managing and motivating multi‑disciplinary teams, delivering complex, high‑impact projects within strict deadlines and budgets.
* Substantial hands‑on, relevant industry experience and detailed knowledge of the construction sector or a repairs and maintenance environment, ideally within a high‑risk building context.
* Demonstrable track record of creating, implementing and embedding innovative, organisation‑wide Building Safety strategies that have enhanced business compliance, safety culture and operational efficiency.
* Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills, enabling effective liaison with diverse stakeholders, senior leadership, residents and regulatory bodies.
* Basic DBS and a full clean driving licence.
Benefits
Full‑time, permanent, hybrid location, competitive salary, opportunity to lead a safety‑focused team.
Application
Review and shortlist applicants between Christmas and New Year period. 1st stage interviews will commence the week of 12th January 2026.
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