Compliance & Building Safety Manager

Flint Housing is a for-profit registered provider of social housing headquartered in London. Founded in 2020 by Stephen Stone, former CEO of Crest Nicholson, and William Rucker, former Chair of Lazard UK, we support the delivery of new build, high-quality affordable housing across England.

With an investment capacity of over £1 billion through the partnership with investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) and as an Investment Partner to the Greater London Authority, Flint Housing has been developing a pipeline of forward funded and forward purchase schemes across England within and outside of the s106 framework by working in partnership with large and SME house builders.

We are a small, focused and driven team, bringing together deep expertise from the house building, social housing, and financial sectors, operating in an entrepreneurial organisation. We are aiming to deliver over 3,000 new-build, high quality, affordable homes over the medium term and to create a genuine and lasting positive social impact for our residents and communities through the provision of safe and secure housing.

Ensuring we comply with all health & safety and compliance requirements is paramount to our strategy.

This is an exciting moment to join Flint Housing and help shape what that future looks like.

This is a new role and an opportunity for someone to play a direct and critical role in ensuring our residents’ safety and wellbeing by further developing a best-practice, technology-driven, health & safety function, focusing on property compliance and building safety.

As an organised, hands-on professional, you will own the building safety and compliance function end-to-end. You will work in our small but active team to shape, implement and embed robust policies, strategies, systems and plans to ensure we meet our obligations as a registered provider of social housing and our properties, many of which will be high risk buildings (HRBs), meet all relevant safety requirements.

Reporting to the CEO, you will be a credible, trusted voice internally, someone who can translate complex requirements and data into clear actions and give leadership confidence that Flint Housing is always meeting its obligations.

Because this is a small organisation with significant growth ambitions, the role carries real scope for progression as the team and portfolio expands.

• Lead and manage building safety and compliance across our occupied housing portfolio, ensuring full compliance across landlord's statutory and regulatory obligations
• Develop and implement robust policies, strategies, systems, and operational plans to ensure full compliance through best practice
• Proactively work with external housing and estate / block management partner teams and their systems to set up and monitor a programme of scheduled compliance events and to share and collect all necessary data and certifications
• Lead procurement and contract management activity relating to statutory compliance services
• Maintain detailed oversight of all compliance areas including fire safety, gas, electrical, lifts, asbestos, and legionella, as well as damp & mould and other health & safety / compliance related inspections
• Monitor and approve, in conjunction with external partners, remedial compliance actions that may be required
• Manage the Golden Thread of information across all higher risk buildings
• Track all compliance-related key performance indicators at the unit and aggregate level, produce detailed performance data and reports for the Executive Leadership Team, the Board and other stakeholders
• Provide expert guidance and advice to residents, senior…