Building Safety Consultant - BSA

Department: Operations - Field Based

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Nationwide

Compensation: Competitive

P4 isn't your typical safety consultancy. We exist to bring clarity, pace and real-world support to an industry often bogged down in red tape and vague advice. We work with clients, design teams and contractors across the UK from offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and London.

We talk like real people. We are not here to impress with jargon or hide behind processes — we are here to help clients make smart decisions, avoid risk and deliver safer, better buildings. Our Building Safety Act team is growing, and this role is central to that growth.

We recognise that every person is unique, and we work hard to build a culture where everyone can be themselves. Whether that means flexibility around individual needs or simply making sure people have someone to talk to when they need it, we want everyone here to feel welcome, heard and valued.

We are looking for an experienced Building Regulations Principal Designer to take dayto-day ownership of a portfolio of Building Safety Act commissions — acting as, or supporting, the Principal Designer across both higher-risk and non-higher-risk buildings.

You will work across multiple developments at once, carrying them from early design through RIBA Stages 2 to 6 and the Gateway process. Projects will typically be yours to lead, with the backing of a senior team and technical peer review. Expect to spend your time between home, our offices, client offices, design team meetings and project sites.

This is a role for someone who is passionate about technical delivery rather than design for its own sake: coordinating the route to compliance, holding the design team to it, and giving clients advice they can actually act on.

• Liaise with the client on their duties under the Building Safety Act, making sure they understand what is required of them and are supported to discharge it.
• Support the project team in notifying the regulator of duty holder appointments.
• Obtain a client statement confirming their acceptance of the building regulations application.
• Support the client in obtaining assurances and a letter of conformity at the close of the design phase.

• Take all reasonable steps to ensure design work is planned, managed and monitored so that it complies with all relevant requirements.
• Coordinate the route to compliance with the consultant team, and establish a consensus on how compliance will be achieved and evidenced.
• Ensure cooperation is occurring between all duty holders, and liaise with them on design work compliance.
• Participate in design development, monitoring progress and identifying risks to compliance as the design evolves.
• Support the team through change management throughout the design phase, and monitor the effect of change on design work compliance.
• Monitor and record the competency of the design team.
• Ensure a mandatory occurrence reporting plan is in place throughout the design phase and available when construction work begins.
• Ensure the Fire and Emergency File is in place during the design phase, and hand it over to the Principal Contractor for the construction phase.

• Prepare and produce BSA progress reports at the end of each RIBA Stage and at each Gateway submission.
• Review Golden Thread information and provide a conformity of duties statement.
• Review duty holder documents and monitor Building Control submissions.
• Produce clear, concise, well-evidenced reports, advice notes and gap analyses for client and design team audiences.
• Maintain accurate, auditable project…