Assistant Building Safety Manager -7078

Title: Assistant Building Safety Manager

Contract Type:Permanent Full Time 35 hours per week

Salary:35951- 45500 pa depending on experience plus Essential Car User Allowance of 1300 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:25thSeptember 2025 at 11pm

Interview Dates:2nd/3rdOctober 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

Join our Building Safety Team at L&Q:

L&Q is in the process of developing our 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 Assistant Building Safety Manager to support the Building Safety Managers on building safety compliance. The roleworks in close collaboration with Lead Building Safety Managers Head of Service andDirector of BuildingCompliance & 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 youll bring:

Hold or willing working towards a relevant Building Safety qualification. This should be stated on candidates applications.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process including application stage please email

About L&Q:

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

250000 people call our properties home and were proud to serve diverse communities across London the South East and North West of England.

At L&Q people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times and all levels when representing L&Q.

L&Q strongly believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important and inclusion is part of our core values and everyday working practices. We make hiring decisions based on your experiences skills and merits and we are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace. Click here to read more.

At L&Q sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UKs largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

*ECU Allowance is paid in accordance with requirements of the relevant policy as updated from time to time. (remove if not relevant)