Building Safety Coordinator
- st. neots, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full time
- £42 - £60 Per Hour
Job Description
Building Safety Coordinator
Flexible location: Dartford, Sale, St Neots or Nottinghamshire
Permanent role | Travel required
Looking for a role where no two days are the same?
Do you enjoy being organised, solving problems, working with people and learning new things?
Are you ambitious, curious and keen to build a career in a growing area of the construction industry?
If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for a Building Safety Coordinator to join our expanding Building Safety team at Laing O'Rourke. Over the last 18 months, this team has grown rapidly and continues to play an increasingly important role in how we deliver safe, compliant and high-quality buildings.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to develop their career, gain exposure to senior stakeholders and become part of a team that is helping shape the future of building safety.
What's the role all about?
This is a varied, hands-on position where you'll support the team across a wide range of activities.
One day you might be:
- Coordinating meetings and workshops
- Creating presentations for senior leaders
- Maintaining key compliance records and trackers
- Supporting training activities and onboarding
- Gathering lessons learned from projects
The next, you could be:
- Supporting Building Regulations compliance processes
- Tracking important project milestones
- Updating competence and capability records
- Helping monitor business-wide Building Safety requirements
- Working with technical experts across the organisation
No two days are the same, and that's exactly what makes this role exciting.
Who might be a good fit?
We're open-minded about background and experience.
You could come from any technical or regulated environment:
- Architecture
- Design Management
- Engineering
Maybe you're early in your career and looking for your next challenge.
Maybe you're already in a coordination role and want something with more visibility, variety and long-term opportunities.
Either way, we're looking for someone who is:
- Proactive and willing to get stuck in
- Highly organised and detail-focused
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Confident communicating with different stakeholders
- Keen to learn and develop new skills
- Curious about building regulations and building safety
- An independent thinker who enjoys improving how things are done
What you'll bring
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and SharePoint
- Great organisational skills and attention to detail
- The ability to build positive working relationships
- Experience coordinating activities, projects, documentation or business processes
- A willingness to learn and take ownership
- A flexible approach and enthusiasm for tackling a broad range of tasks
- Your own unique skills, experiences and perspective.We're keen to hear what you can bring to the team and how you could help us continue to evolve and improve.
Why join us?
This is a high-profile area of the business and a genuinely important role.
Building Safety is central to our licence to operate and continues to evolve across the industry. As part of this team, you'll gain valuable experience, work alongside subject matter experts and have the opportunity to influence how we continue to improve.
Most importantly, we're looking for someone who brings fresh ideas, energy and ambition.
We're not just looking for someone to maintain processes. We're looking for someone who wants to help shape them.
Ready for your next challenge?
If you're someone who enjoys variety, wants to grow their career and is excited by the opportunity to be part of a fast-growing, business-critical team, we'd love to hear from you.
Bring your enthusiasm, your ideas and your ambition. We'll give you the opportunity to make a real impact.
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
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