HSW Manager Building Safety Act & Fire

Department:

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Canary Wharf Management Limited

Senior HSW Manager - BSA & Fire

Lead the in-occupation Building Safety Act (BSA) and fire safety regime across Canary Wharf Group's higher-risk residential buildings and mixed-use interfaces. Ensure robust compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022 (Part
4), the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022-protecting residents, tenants, visitors and colleagues while safeguarding business operations and assets.

Salary Range: £60,000 - £75,000

Working Pattern: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

• Lead the delivery of Building Safety Cases and Safety Case Reports for each higher-risk building; maintain them and ensure timely submission to the regulator as required.
• Own Gateway readiness for higher-risk buildings: lead preparation and coordination for Gateway 2 (building control approval) and Gateway 3 (completion/occupation) submissions, ensuring evidence is complete and consistent.
• Manage the full Golden Thread of Information for each asset: establish a secure digital single source of truth that is accurate, accessible and version-controlled, from planning through occupation and then ongoing.
• Oversee the procurement/selection of contractors required for Building Safety Act compliance whilst ensuring that suitable and sufficient structural risk assessments are in place that will meet BSR expectations.
• Support the Principal Accountable Person (PAP) in registration and in maintaining Key Building Information (KBI) and other statutory data sets.
• Establish and operate the Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) system for occupied buildings; triage safety occurrences and coordinate timely notices/reports and corrective actions.
• Maintain an effective resident engagement strategy and a transparent building safety complaints system; ensure insights inform the Safety Case and improvement plans.
• Act as the operational liaison with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) for occupied buildings (inspections, information requests, Building Assessment Certificate readiness).

• Support Responsible Person duties under the Fire Safety Order, including suitable and sufficient fire risk assessments and recording of significant findings.
• Deliver high rise requirements: maintain a secure information box with orientation plan and RP contact details; provide electronic floor/building plans and external wall information to the local Fire and Rescue Service; ensure compliant way finding signage.
• Oversee monthly checks of lifts for firefighters, evacuation lifts and essential firefighting equipment, with prompt notifications to the Fire and Rescue Service where outages exceed 24 hours.
• Manage quarterly checks of common area fire doors and annual checks of flat entrance doors (where applicable) and ensure resident fire safety instructions and fire door information are issued and updated.
• Commission/oversee Fire Risk Appraisals of External Walls (PAS 9980) by competent specialists; integrate outcomes into Safety Case, FRA and action plans.
• Manage the Fire Duty Officer (FDO) contract, including managing the FDO supervisor and officers to ensure continued compliance and mitigation of risks.

• Advise project teams and clients on Building Safety Act obligations, change-control and competence, and how these affect design development, procurement and construction sequencing.
• Provide authoritative advice on CDM Regulations where they interface with the BSA-covering roles, coordination, risk management and construction-phase information.
• Undertake pre-, during- and post-works site inspections to verify that RAMS, permits and agreed controls are in place and effective; challenge unsafe practices and stop work where necessary.
• Verify that Principal Designer, Principal Contractor, designers and contractors are meeting their statutory duties; support readiness of as-built evidence for Gateway and handover.

• Plan and deliver an annual audit and inspection programme covering Safety Case evidence, Golden Thread completeness, statutory records, FRAs/FRAEWs, contractor controls and site standards. This includes ongoing assurance post occupation.
• Lead or support incident and near-miss…