Technical Officer – Building Safety

Jobs Technical Officer – Building Safety

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£46,579 - £48,738

18/09/2026

Kirklees, West Yorkshire , office / home based, West Yorkshire

Full Time

At Kirklees Council Homes & Neighbourhoods, keeping our residents safe and meeting our Building Safety obligations is our top priority. To ensure continued delivery of our statuary duties and ensuring safety we have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Officer – Building Safety to join the Building and Safety Team and deliver against our Building Safety requirements in relation to high rise building management.

As Technical Officer (Building Safety) you will play a pivotal role in ensuring statutory, regulatory and best practice requirements are met for all areas of structural, fire and building safety within our high rise buildings. Working alongside colleagues within compliance, you will manage the Building Safety Management specialist function, ensuring that the Council is fully compliant with the Building Safety Act and up to date with the required legislation and adhering to best practise.

You will ensure building safety is inspected, managed, and maintained in accordance with the Building Safety Act and any other appropriate fire & structural safety legislation. You will work with colleagues across the organisation and with partners as a change agent to ensure positive outcomes for customers.

• Knowledge of preparing comprehensive Building Safety work specifications, work designs, and supporting colleagues with minor/ major projects to a high standard.
• Extensive knowledge of The Building Safety Act 2022
• Extensive knowledge of The Fire Safety Reform 2005.
• Extensive knowledge of The Fire safety Act 2021.
• Extensive experience of managing internal and external contractors
• Experience of and knowledge of all building safety and compliance areas
• Knowledge of Health & Safety at an operational level
• Knowledge of the Building Regulations, Disabled Access, building safety,CDM and Health & Safety Legislation

• Develop and complete the Building Safety Case
• Develop and complete the Golden Thread
• Develop and complete the resident engagement strategy
• Deliver the resident engagement strategy
• Produce accurate and timely performance reports for managers, senior leadership teams, boards, elected members and regulatory purposes.
• Lead on complaints, take on customer feedback and service performance information, identifying recurring themes, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop performance measures, key performance indicators and benchmarking information to support service planning and continuous improvement.
• Work with operational teams to ensure the delivery, integrity and consistency of Building Safety management data and reports.
• Identify and investigate performance issues and provide recommendations to support corrective action and service improvement.
• Support compliance, repairs, planned investment, stock condition, building safety, energy and other asset management functions.
• Monitor performance against corporate objectives, regulatory requirements and service targets, highlighting exceptions and emerging concerns.
• Manage the collection, validation and presentation of performance information for Building Safety to ensure reporting is accurate, reliable and auditable.
• Work collaboratively with all teams within Kirklees Council
• Promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making, continuous improvement and data-driven service delivery across Homes & Neighbourhoods.
• Promote a culture of safe working within the built environment

At Kirklees council we offer a comprehensive total rewards package for our staff, consisting of competitive pay, health and wellbeing programme, volunteering programmes, staff discounts and much more.

For more information on how we reward our employees please use the following link:
Kirklees Council Staff Benefits

The diversity of the Kirklees area is a real strength and something we are very proud of. We’re keen for this to be represented through our great Kirklees people – and we’d love you to come and join us!

Blake Hamblettis the manager…