M&E Compliance Lead

Job Title: Interim M&E Compliance Lead

Location: Somerset, Hybrid working

Duration: 6-months ongoing

Salary/Rate: Inside IR35 - �41.92 per hour (Negotiable)

Spencer Clarke Group's client, a local authority in Somerset, is seeking an Interim M&E Compliance Lead. This role will involve leading compliance across the Technical Service for gas, electrical, lifts, and legionella, ensuring resident safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead responsibility and act as the technical expert for gas, electrical, lifts, and legionella compliance, ensuring resident safety.
• Oversee the repair, continuity, improvement, and maintenance of all building services for blocks of flats.
• Manage the installation and servicing of domestic heating and hot water systems, and lead innovative transitions to new forms of heat and energy generation.
• Lead teams to deliver all building and compliance services, meeting outcomes required in Housing Investment Plans, and adhering to legal/regulatory standards.
• Develop and implement delivery strategies and plans, commission services and contracts with partners, suppliers, and council departments, managing change to meet new service requirements.
• Serve as the technical consultant lead for gas, electrical, legionella, and lift compliance, driving compliance and safety across the service, and ensuring accurate reporting through governance pathways.
• Provide confident leadership and clear management of significant and complex high-risk projects and/or programmes.

Essential Criteria

• Qualification to degree level in a technical professional or management discipline, with suitable complementary skills and experience to cover the breadth and depth of the role.
• Demonstrable record of delivering cost-effective, high-quality compliance and building services in the public sector housing or housing association sector.
• Deep understanding of the needs of tenants and leaseholders, and how refurbishment and improvement works impact their comfort and security.
• Clear understanding of compliance and building regulations, and how to drive compliance across a large, complex service, particularly in gas, electrical, legionella, and lift safety for residential buildings.
• Ability to manage third-party suppliers/contractors effectively to fully deliver their obligations, using highly developed communication, negotiation, and challenge skills.

How to Apply

If you are an experienced compliance professional with a proven track record in managing M&E services and ensuring compliance within the housing sector, we want to hear from you. Please submit your CV and contact Joe O'Halloran at Spencer Clarke Group on (phone number removed).