Head of Building Safety & Remediation

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

We're looking for an experienced Head of Building Safety & Remediation to provide senior leadership across one of the most important areas of our Property Directorate.

This is a significant leadership opportunity. You'll take responsibility for the delivery of building safety and remediation activity across Orbit's portfolio of in-scope buildings, helping us respond to an evolving regulatory landscape while ensuring the safety of our customers remains at the heart of every decision we make.

This role is part of Property where you'll help us to lead the way investing and maintaining 46,000 homes.

What you'll achieve

Building safety has changed significantly in recent years, bringing greater accountability, scrutiny and expectations across the housing and property sectors.

At Orbit, we want to go beyond simply meeting those requirements.

We want to continue developing a strong culture of building safety, supported by robust evidence, effective governance and confident decision-making.

As our Head of Building Safety & Remediation, you'll have the opportunity to shape that approach.

• Lead the delivery of Orbit's Building Safety requirements across our portfolio.
• Provide senior leadership and oversight of a complex, multi-year building remediation programme.
• Act as a senior operational lead for engagement with the Building Safety Regulator and other relevant regulators and external bodies.
• Provide clear, evidence-based assurance to the Accountable Person, Executive and Board on building safety risk, compliance and remediation.
• Ensure our building safety cases, risk assessments and supporting evidence are robust, accurate and auditable.
• Maintain the integrity of the Golden Thread of information across our higher-risk buildings.
• Lead the governance, performance and financial oversight of our remediation programme.
• Chair Orbit's Expert Technical Panel, ensuring high-quality technical advice informs proportionate and evidence-based decisions.
• Lead, develop and motivate a multidisciplinary team, creating a culture of professional judgement, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively across Property, Finance, Legal, Communications and Regulatory Data to ensure building safety is embedded throughout Orbit.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, contractors, consultants, regulators and other external partners.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

We're looking for an established senior leader with significant experience across building safety, building remediation, major works or complex capital programmes within a regulated environment.

You'll combine strong technical and regulatory knowledge with the leadership capability to operate confidently at Executive, Board and regulator level.

• In-depth knowledge of the Building Safety Act, fire safety and associated regulatory frameworks.
• Significant experience leading complex building safety, remediation, major works or capital investment programmes.
• Experience operating within a highly regulated environment and under external scrutiny.
• Strong governance, assurance and risk management capability.
• Experience providing assurance and reporting at Executive and Board level.
• Excellent commercial and financial acumen, including the management of significant multi-year budgets.
• The ability to influence, challenge and build confidence with senior stakeholders, regulators, customers and partners.
• Strong people leadership skills and experience developing high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
• A relevant property qualification or significant equivalent professional 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:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. 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.