Health & Compliance Safety Manager

Rendall & Rittner • £Competitive  • Hybrid working (home-based with 1 day per week on-site in London)

Role Overview

Are you an experienced Health & Safety professional looking to lead compliance and drive safety standards across a growing organisation?

Rendall & Rittner are looking for a Health & Safety Compliance Manager to lead operational health and safety initiatives and support the wider business in achieving full regulatory compliance.

Working closely with the Head of Health & Safety Compliance and key stakeholders, you’ll play a critical role in embedding a strong safety culture, leading a specialist team and ensuring effective health and safety management across the property portfolio.

This role offers the opportunity to combine strategic input with hands-on leadership, making a real impact on safety performance across the business.

Role Expectations

This role requires someone who is proactive, confident and capable of managing both operational and strategic health and safety responsibilities.

You’ll take ownership of compliance, audits and health and safety systems, ensuring processes align with legislation and best practice standards such as ISO 45001. You’ll also act as a key point of contact for stakeholders and clients, providing expert advice and leading on audits and reporting.

Alongside day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll lead and develop a team, drive continuous improvement and support the business in maintaining a strong and consistent safety culture.

What Success Looks Like

You’ll be successful in this role if:

• Health and safety compliance is consistently achieved across the business
• Audits are delivered effectively with clear actions and improvements
• Health and safety systems and processes are robust and well maintained
• Stakeholders receive clear, practical and effective safety guidance
• A strong health and safety culture is embedded across teams

How You’ll Spend Most of Your Time

Most weeks, you’ll be:

• Leading and managing the Health & Safety team
• Overseeing health and safety compliance across the organisation
• Acting as a key contact for clients and leading on audits
• Conducting audits of on-site and property management teams
• Providing operational and strategic health and safety advice
• Producing reports on performance and recommending improvements
• Managing health and safety systems and software
• Reviewing risk assessments and method statements
• Supporting accident investigations where required
• Delivering training sessions, including workshops and lunch & learns
• Managing audit schedules and compliance reporting

Who This Role Is For

This role suits someone who:

• Has strong leadership experience within health and safety
• Is confident influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Has excellent organisational skills and can manage multiple priorities
• Communicates clearly and builds strong working relationships
• Is proactive and driven to improve safety standards
• Is comfortable working across both operational and strategic areas

Experience That Helps

• NEBOSH General Certificate (essential)
• Experience within property or a related sector (essential)
• Experience with internal auditing (essential)
• Strong background in fire safety (desirable)
• NEBOSH Fire Safety & Risk Management (desirable)
• Tech IOSH membership or higher (desirable)
• Experience managing teams and health & safety systems
• Experience of stakeholder management

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, aligned to experience
• Discretionary bonus
• Home-based working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance, life assurance and enhanced family leave
• Fully funded training and professional development
• Paid sabbaticals as a loyalty reward
• Pension scheme and employee assistance programme
• Discounts across travel, retail, fitness and entertainment

About Rendall & Rittner

Rendall & Rittner is one of the UK’s most established and highly accredited residential leasehold property management companies, managing over 90,000 homes nationwide. Founded in 1990 on the belief that property management should be more professional, transparent and customer-focused, those principles still drive how we operate today as a founding partner of Odevo.

We are people-led and technology-enabled, investing heavily in our teams, systems and continuous improvement. Our standards are recognised through Investors in People Platinum, regulation by RICS and the FCA, and multiple industry awards, including Property Manager of the Year and Managing Agent of the Year.

How We Hire

• Initial conversation with our talent team
• Interview focused on experience, judgement and approach

We aim to complete the process within two to three weeks and communicate clearly throughout.

Interested?

Apply with your CV.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Documentary evidence of eligibility will be required.