Asbestos Manager
- Lola Balogun
- Business Manager
Interim Asbestos Manager
West London
6-Month Contract
£400 per day (Inside IR35)
Panoramic Associates is supporting a London Borough to appoint an experienced Interim Asbestos Manager to lead and strengthen asbestos compliance across a substantial and diverse housing portfolio.
This is a key leadership role with responsibility as the designated competent person under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. You will drive regulatory compliance, oversee operational delivery, and provide assurance to senior leadership that asbestos risks are being managed effectively and transparently.
This opportunity offers genuine influence, shaping policy, improving data integrity, enhancing contractor performance, and ensuring residents remain at the centre of service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead as the designated competent person under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, ensuring robust asbestos management across our client’s housing stock.
- Develop, review, and implement asbestos policies and management plans aligned with industry best practices and statutory obligations.
- Oversee asbestos surveys, re-inspections, and remediation projects, ensuring timely completion and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain accurate asbestos registers with near-perfect data integrity, continuously updating following surveys and remedial works.
- Monitor and evaluate contractor performance, ensuring safe working practices, adherence to method statements, and high-quality survey outcomes.
- Liaise effectively with residents and third-party stakeholders to communicate asbestos-related works transparently and sensitively.
- Conduct regular audits and inspections, addressing any compliance gaps and implementing improvements.
- Lead incident investigations related to asbestos, ensuring root cause analysis, corrective actions, and reporting procedures are followed.
- Foster a proactive safety culture by promoting safety awareness and best practices across all levels of the organisation.
Essential Experience
- Significant experience managing asbestos compliance within housing, local authority or large property portfolios.
- Strong working knowledge of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and associated HSE guidance.
- Demonstrable track record of overseeing asbestos surveys, risk assessments and remediation programmes.
- Experience managing contractors and driving performance improvement.
- BOHS P402/P403 (or equivalent) is highly desirable.
If you are ready to bring your expertise to a forward-thinking organisation committed to safety excellence and tangible community impact, express your interest by submitting your CV
Next Steps
If the role sounds of interest, I’d be happy to share more details or arrange a quick call.
Even if this role isn’t quite the right fit, I’d still love to hear from you. We have other exciting interim and permanent opportunities in the pipeline,
