FRA Compliance Officer – Building Safety

Salary: £38,213 per annum plus eligibility to earn up to 5% Performance-Related Bonus
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: Hale Village, London, N17

Newlon Housing Trust is a successful charitable housing association and one of the major providers of new affordable housing in north and east London. 

Working as part of the Building Safety Team, you will take responsibility for ensuring that Newlon meets it statutory landlord compliance obligations in relation to Fire Risk Assessments for all properties. You will deliver a high quality and robust compliance and responsive service, ensuring works and servicing programmes are delivered effectively, on time and required standards are met. Your duties will include monitoring reports, raising repairs and the allocation of identified Fire Risk Assessment tasks to relevant teams and specialist contractors, as well as other admin and database duties relating to building safety.

Having previously worked in a similar role, you will have substantial compliance experience and will ideally be a member of a relevant body such has IOSH, RICS, CIOB, RIBA, CIBSE or IFSM. You will need to hold a health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH or IOSH. You will also need demonstrable experience and knowledge of current housing related legislation in relation to Fire/Structural Safety and Fire Risk Assessment work streams, as well as experience of managing Health and Safety with safety regulations.

An excellent communicator with a focus on providing high quality customer service, you will be able to build rapport with residents and maintain effective working relationships. You will also need the flexibility to be able to travel from site to site, as and when required.

In return, you can expect 27 days holiday, a non-contributory pension, excellent benefits and a flexi scheme.  You’ll also be working out of purpose-built offices that form part of the award-winning Hale Village regeneration project, and are situated just two minutes’ walk from the major transport interchange at Tottenham Hale.