Overview

Location: Manchester/National

We are recruiting a Property Consultant - Domestic Compliance from a housing, commercial or management consultancy background.

As a key point of contact for our clients, your high level of problem solving, communication skills and commercial awareness will be essential. Along the way, we will work with you to develop your wider consulting skills in support of your existing technical competency, expand your professional horizons and enjoy a happy and fulfilling career as part of our team.

Professionally, all services are accredited to BS EN ISO9001 2015 for quality, ISO14001 environmental and ISO18001 Health & Safety. Ridge has been steadily growing since 1946 and now employs over 1,100 people in 12 offices across the UK. As an established and stable company, we are not going anywhere, but you might have the option to... we are also delivering projects worldwide.

Personally, working for Ridge means you will receive excellent benefits including a highly competitive salary, private healthcare, car allowance, a generous company pension scheme, income protection insurance and 25 days of holiday a year (increasing with years' service). Ultimately work-life balance is important to everyone and we work hard to enable this.

If you have reached the stage in your career where you want to re-spark your energy and passion for what you do, get in touch.

Who are we?

Ridge is a built environment consultancy, helping our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment. We are enabled by great people who are inspired and proud of what they do and respected for who they are.

Our people are the foundation of our success, and our greatest asset and what separate us, they drive our vision and embody our values. We offer not just a job, but a journey. We believe in commitment, and the value of a stable, flexible, long-term career path. We challenge our people to be the best they can be and help them grow with the right development.

What's in it for you?

Our vision is to be ever progressive, expanding our expertise and nurturing our talent through Quality, Innovation & Growth, to achieve our strategic outcomes:

Growth which fuels ideas and opportunity for all
Purposeful and meaningful work
Continual development and mentoring
Empowerment, inclusivity and respect
Happiness and enjoyment
Openness, honesty and integrity
Acting as one team

Your reward is focused on your total wellbeing, with a package to support all aspects of life. In addition to your salary, you can expect:

A healthy holiday balance of 25 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
An inclusive wellbeing offer:

Financial - Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
Physical - Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
Mental - Mental Health First Aiders, Help@Hand by Unum

A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
Tailored career development - focused on professional, personal and/or educational

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities' employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you'd like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application & selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

Role and Responsibilities

You will work on a range of engagements, focusing predominantly on supporting affordable housing clients in reviewing their core compliance activity, achieving compliance and their best practice objectives. The core compliance areas will typically comprise:

Fire Risk - including FRAs;
Fuel & Gas Safety;
Electrical Safety;
Asbestos;
Water Safety/Legionella; and
Lifts and lifting equipment.

The role requires an individual who is accountable, comfortable in working proactively with our clients, building relationships and has the ambition to develop a specialist compliance team with support from discipline Partners. We anticipate a workload including the following:

Detailed diagnostic audits cover the core compliance areas highlighted above
High level and repeat health checks
Supporting development of action plans, recovery plans and implementation requirements specific to a client organisation
Supporting development of new organisational structure, operating models, policies procedures and risk assessments
Supporting client recruitment and training requirements
Broader scope to include non-housing related assets and requirement
Collaborative working with our data specialists to understand system deficiencies and requirements
Support development of Building Safety Cases
Oversight of existing specialist external consultants and compliance related activity within the discipline

You will also have an active involvement in supporting future growth within the team, including development of proposals and wider business development activities.

Experience and Skills Required

Knowledge of current asset management, compliance and statutory best practice and regulatory requirements will be essential in advising clients and must be up to date
Proven track record in the six core areas of domestic compliance, ideally with experience from a consultancy and/or housing background
Appropriate university and professional qualifications such as NEBOSH would be highly desirable, although not essential
Housing sector related qualifications such as CIHCM would be desirable, although not essential
An understanding of the housing, central and local government sectors would be highly desirable
Ability to balance hard compliance requirements and specific client operational requirements to produce accurate and robust advice.
Strong project management skills, and ability to deliver engagements within tight timescales, to appropriate quality and financial objectives
Ambition to become self-reliant in terms of workload and new opportunities
You will be of an analytical mind and high level of intellect - combining excellent written and oral skills to produce considered and robust reports and reasoned advice.

It is anticipated the role will require initial and on-going training in areas where knowledge may be limited and you will be fully supported by Ridge in gaining this expertise. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Compliance Auditor