We're building thriving communities as one of the UK's largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.
We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.
If you want to experience work that's truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.
Work for Orbit. Believe in people.
The role
To work in Property Safety, to plan and deliver programmes of work related to the functions held (e.g. Fire, asbestos, electrical, lifts, water safety etc.) and to ensure Orbit has robust and auditable evidence of compliance with relevant legislation and company KPIs. Most important to this role is to apply the Plan, Do, Check, Act way of working to everything our team does to drive our customer safety culture of continual improvement.
In this role you will have the opportunity to lead on both asbestos and water safety across Orbit's property portfolio. You will manage a comprehensive work programme or Water risk assessments, Asbestos Surveys, and removals. You will support the wider operations team to ensure safe practices are adhered to when carrying out repairs or refurbishment works. You will have experience building effective relationships as you will need to be able to communicate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
This role is part of Customer & Communities where you'll help us to lead the way keeping our promise to more than 100,000 customers.
What you'll achieve
- To ensure communication between various Orbit Departments and contractors results in a joined up approach to delivering legal compliance to minimise the risk to customers, colleagues and contractors
- To conduct root and branch investigations into serious health and safety breaches to identify lessons to be learned and to assess the potential safety and legal ramifications of any failure
- To fully investigate compliance related queries and provide audit trail of these investigations
- To provide incident support and organise specialist contractors to control risk in the event of a significant health and safety breach
- Manage contractors and works to ensure the delivery of a quality service, compliant with the contract
- To initiate departmental and contract meetings including preparing agendas and ensuring notes are taken and circulated
- Controlling survey and/or servicing programmes for compliance functions and ensuring quality of surveys provided by relevant service providers.
What you'll bring
Essential skills
- Experience of Property Safety/Compliance related functions in relation to a housing landlord
- City and guilds or higher qualification in compliance subject or extensive demonstrable experience in delivering compliance functions for a Landlord
- Substantial experience of managing large contracts based upon high volume, low unit value
- Experience of implementing policy and procedure towards preventing health and safety incidents
- Experience of driving health and safety cultural change on a business wide scale
Desirable skills
- P405 qualification in Asbestos Management
- L8 Legionella experience
Why Orbit?
Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.
Here's what you can expect to enjoy with us.
A rewarding experience that works for you
We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
A place to progress
From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you're a student, graduate or experienced professional we'll support you to grow.
For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.
A purpose to feel proud of
We're proud to make a difference to people together. We're values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.
What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.
Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.
How we hire
We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:
- Online application
- Interview(s)
- Decision and offer
We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check