Overview

Title: Assistant Building Safety Manager

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: £35,951 - £45,500 pa depending on experience plus Essential Car User Allowance of £1,300 per annum

Grade: 7

Reporting Office: Stratford, London - agile working (home, office and site combined)

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 25th September 2025 at 11pm

Interview Dates: 2nd/3rd October 2025 via MS Teams

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more.

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

*Previous Applicants May Not Apply* - (if prior applications were regretted within 12 weeks)

Role Profile

Assistant Building Safety Manager

Join our Building Safety Team at L&Q. L&Q is developing its Operational Building Safety Team within the Property Services Directorate. We are pleased to open the opportunity to join the team in the role of Assistant Building Safety Manager. The Assistant Building Safety Manager supports the Building Safety Managers on building safety compliance. The role works in close collaboration with Lead Building Safety Managers, Head of Service, and Director of Building Compliance & Engagement, alongside the Strategic Building Safety Team.

The Assistant Building Safety Managers will support through site inspections with all current building safety regulations in and for buildings within their management. They will be responsible for assisting Building Safety Manager with building information gathering and the creation of Building Safety Case Reports for buildings under their management.

We are looking for someone able to assist with promoting, communicating, and engaging across the organisation on building safety matters, including collaboration with residents, leaseholders, internal teams, and external stakeholders. Therefore, you must be confident in open and clear communication. Actively contributing on ‘whole building safety’ matters in all meetings internally and externally regarding allocated buildings.

You will be collaborating with relevant teams to raise the profile of the Building Safety Team and awareness of its objectives and activities, working closely with the Strategic Building Safety team colleagues.

This role will work to ensure that fire safety and building safety activities are correctly tracked and traceable through the Golden Thread, to ensure sufficient evidence is readily available to all stakeholders.

The responsibilities will include contract management of consultants and service providers to source and for the provision of building safety information for the buildings within their remit.

Supporting the Building Safety Managers, by fulfilling and carrying out various duties and building safety measures, required by the Building Safety Act and secondary legislation.

Supporting the Building Safety Managers in their duties to ensure that in-scope buildings within their management remit are safe to occupy, that they continue to be safe to occupy and that they comply with the relevant regulations, as well as taking initiatives to ensure residents also feel safe.

The Assistants will work to regularly review maintenance and testing activities and outcomes, consider all potential risks, including fire and structural matters, whilst delivering high quality building safety management in line with policy, procedures, legislation and government guidance.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role

• The ability to liaise effectively with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure truly collaborative agreed approaches and outcomes.
• Experience of supporting team members to instil and promote a strong, cohesive team culture. Ability to support team members through periods of intense and rapid change (new policies, procedures and legislative requirements).
• High levels of computer literate and be able input and retrieve data from a variety of computer management systems.

What you’ll bring

• Hold or willing working towards a relevant Building Safety qualification. This should be stated on candidate’s applications.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.