Asbestos Manager

Are you ready to lead the charge in ensuring safe, asbestos-free homes for our customers? Joining our small but perfectly formed asbestos team, you'll take responsibility for either the north or south regions, managing asbestos compliance and safety across a range of properties. Reporting to the Lead Asbestos Manager, this role is all about making a real difference to the homes and lives of thousands. If you're passionate about service innovation and want to work in a team that's all about making things better, this could be the perfect role for you! Typical day as our Asbestos Manager

• Lead on managing asbestos across sites in your region, ensuring every home meets safety and legal requirements.
• Oversee asbestos audits, inspections, and remediation projects, working closely with contractors to deliver high-quality work.
• Keep our asbestos register accurate and up-to-date, ensuring all information complies with legal standards.
• Deliver an annual programme of re-inspections, surveying asbestos conditions in communal areas and buildings.
• Manage site-specific surveys, risk assessments, and investigations, driving safe outcomes and improvements.
• Collaborate with your counterpart in the other region, contractors, and teams to maintain asbestos management at the highest level.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You'll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!,
• Flexible working hours (or we're open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
• You'll manage your own diary, so if you need to work from home to take delivery of your new fridge or take a longer lunch for a haircut, you can use your flexi time to manage that!
• This is a hybrid role and you'll spend up to 2 days in the office, 3 days working at home as well as 1-2 days working from one of our North East or North West sites with possible over night stays once a month.
• Able to use technology for updating systems and communicating with colleagues.
• Have a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle insured for business use but don't worry we'll pay for your mileage.
A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!


• Extensive experience managing asbestos, with qualifications like BOHS P402 and P405 and knowledge of CAR2012. And P403 and P404 (or equivalent) desireably.
• Strong understanding of Health and Safety legislation, and experience applying it in construction and maintenance settings.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, able to work effectively with colleagues, contractors, and customers across your region.
• Experience in asbestos auditing, surveying, and writing detailed scoping documents.
• Ability to interpret complex data, and present it clearly through reports, presentations, or action plans.
• A proactive approach to turning ideas into actions, with a focus on continuous improvement and service innovation.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review. Our team Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You'll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!, Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

Working from our office in either Newcastle or Maryport, 1-2 days on site and home working with occasional over night stays Permanent, full time (37.5hpw) Salary circa £48,500 negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan! Home, a place where you belong,
• 34 days leave (this includes bank hols and a "me day" to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• Colleagues really matters to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. See our full range of benefits on our website.
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