Experienced Asbestos Technical Manager

Salary:* £50,000 + benefits package
*Full Time, Mix of Office and site visits
ACS is seeking an experienced *Asbestos Technical Manager* to lead technical standards across our asbestos surveying and inspection services.
This is a senior role for an experienced asbestos professional with a thorough understanding of *ISO/IEC 17020* and UKAS requirements. You will help maintain UKAS accreditation, develop staff competence and ensure our surveying and inspection services are accurate, impartial and technically sound.
*Reporting to the Managing Director and working closely with the Quality Manager and Survey Manager, you will:
* Provide technical leadership across asbestos management surveys, refurbishment and demolition surveys and reinspections within our accredited scope.
* Maintain technical compliance with ISO/IEC 17020, UKAS RG 8, HSG264, the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and applicable technical guidance.
* Lead the technical implementation of changes to standards, guidance and accreditation requirements, including relevant transition arrangements.
* Maintain and improve technical procedures, inspection methods, survey strategies, report templates and supporting records.
* Work with the Quality Manager to maintain effective management systems, contribute to management reviews and support continual improvement.
* Oversee technical audits and quality assurance, including survey report reviews, site audits and internal quality checks.
* Ensure survey reports and inspection records are technically valid, traceable and appropriately reviewed and authorised.
* Investigate technical non-conformances, complaints and quality issues, assessing the impact on previous work and implementing effective corrective action.
* Act as a principal technical contact for UKAS, supporting assessments and ensuring technical findings are resolved.
* Provide technical input into contract reviews, complex surveying projects and the selection and monitoring of external technical providers.
* Safeguard impartiality, inspection independence and confidentiality, ensuring technical decisions remain free from commercial pressure.
* Proven technical management experience within the UKAS-accredited asbestos surveying sector.
* Relevant recognised qualifications in asbestos surveying, supported by demonstrable competence appropriate to the responsibilities held.
* Strong knowledge of asbestos management, refurbishment and demolition surveys and reinspections.
* Experience of UKAS assessments, technical auditing, staff competence assessment and management systems.
* Strong investigative skills, including root-cause analysis and assessing the impact and extent of technical failures.
* Excellent communication, organisation and report-writing skills.
*This role offers the opportunity to influence technical standards across our asbestos surveying and inspection services. You will play a central part in developing our people, strengthening our systems and maintaining the quality our clients rely upon.
*Please send your CV and a brief covering email outlining your qualifications and relevant technical management experience to *info@acsltd.Company car
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Private medical insurance