Building Safety and Asset Compliance Officer

bpha Limited; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 31,000

Job description

Building Safety and Asset Compliance Officer

Salary £31,000 per annum

Location Bedford (Hybrid)

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 12 days at 23:59 BST.

The vacancy

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Building Safety Asset and Compliance Officer in bpha’s Asset Compliance Team. The Asset Compliance Team is responsible for ensuring our customers are safe in their homes, within the 6 main areas of landlord compliance - gas, electrical, asbestos, legionella, fire safety, and lifting.

What you will be doing:

1. Provide an effective co-ordination and administrative support service for all Building Safety aspects across servicing and compliance areas.
2. Ensure that compliance certification is validated, processed accurately and in a timely manner.
3. Ensure that adequate control measures are in place using Asprey Solutions Compliance Software (Asprey) to maintain a safe environment for customers, contractors, and bpha colleagues.
4. Monitor, manage and accurately report statutory and non-statutory compliance adhering to legislation, best practice, current guidance, and bpha’s policies and procedures.
5. Work collaboratively with the Compliance Team ensuring robust data integrity and records are kept up to date.
6. Raise works orders and purchase orders ensuring invoices are processed accurately and efficiently, and recording, tracking, monitoring, and reporting budget spends.
7. Record and provide written notes from meetings.
8. Liaise with all stakeholders and be one of several points of contact for them.

We are looking for someone who has:

1. Knowledge and experience of interpreting and updating data accurately.
2. Knowledge/experience of undertaking reviews/audits of data to provide continual assurance across areas of compliance.
3. Knowledge and experience of asset management or property compliance within social housing in one or more of the following areas - gas, electrical, fire, lifting, legionella, and asbestos.
4. A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, Asprey, CRM, or other similar systems would be beneficial.
5. Good communication skills (both written and verbally) and a commitment to provide excellent quality information to both internal and external when required.
6. Continually demonstrate excellent attention to detail and ability to achieve thoroughness and accuracy when validating data across complex areas and provide accurate reports.
7. Excellent customer service and shows an understanding of and commitment to equality and diversity, in all aspects of work.
8. Have a Level 2 VRQ Award in Asset and Building Compliance Awareness, or an equivalent.

If this sounds like you, then it would be great to hear from you. Sometimes candidates don’t apply if they feel they do not meet 100% of the criteria specified, or the working pattern isn’t quite right. Please do take the chance to apply – we will still review your application, but if you are not right for this role you might be just the person for another role with us in the future.

Amongst what we offer you is:

1. 28 days holiday PLUS Bank Holidays – rising to 33 days per year (1 a year up to 5 years of consecutive service).
2. An in-house training plan to support you in your role.
3. Free life assurance.
4. Access to an extensive suite of wellbeing services and tools including a digital gym.
5. Opportunities for learning and development.
6. Discounted gym membership.

Finding the right people that share our passion for excellent customer experience, our values, and our ambition to grow this service, embracing the opportunities that it will present, is hugely important to us – so come and join the team and be part of something special.

Interview date: To be Confirmed

Please note the successful candidate will need to complete an Enhanced DBS application.

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis, we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible.

About us

bpha is a Housing Association located in the Oxford to Cambridge arc, which is committed to providing its customers with high quality, value for money services whilst continuing to develop energy-efficient, sustainable, and affordable housing.

We are a leading provider and developer of affordable homes – for rent, sheltered, residential care, and shared ownership.

We work together with communities – to improve opportunities, independence, and quality of life for our residents, and to benefit the wider community. We bring people together and run and support a wide range of community activities.

All the money we make is used to invest in existing homes, to enable us to build new homes, and to deliver new and improved services.

We own or manage over 19,500 homes and over 500 staff.

Our vision and values

To build communities where people can live happily in a home they can afford.

Our values underpin the work that we do and are ingrained in our culture at bpha. We are looking for people who can share these values and translate them into day-to-day practices for the benefit of our communities, customers, and fellow colleagues. So that we can realise our vision, together.

We are ambitious.

We are better together.

We show empathy.

We take responsibility.

We believe that benefits should be more than just perks. For us, they aren’t simply little extras added on at the end, they’re fundamental parts of what we stand for, from the very beginning. As standard.

That’s why at bpha, we reward our employees by making sure we give them a supportive and caring environment, that empowers them to be happy, healthy, and inspired, every day.