Technical Compliance Specialist

About us

SFG20 is the industry standard for building maintenance. Providing services and pioneering technologies that empower people to create and sustain safer buildings.

Our mission is to make buildings better using our standard, software and expertise. Our vision is to become the leading authority for built environment maintenance that protects and enhances quality of life.

About the Role

The Technical Compliance Specialist plays a vital role in ensuring the integrity, accuracy and credibility of SFG20 technical content. Through impartial review, evidence-based challenge and technical investigation, the role supports the development of SFG20’s dynamic library of maintenance schedules, ensuring they are aligned with current legislation, industry guidance and real-world operational requirements.

This role is critical in maintaining the independence and robustness of the SFG20 compliance framework, supporting customers in achieving compliance and operational efficiency, and supports the ongoing development of compliance processes, governance frameworks and assurance activities.

Key Responsibilities

Complete structured compliance reviews of technical maintenance content produced by SFG20:

• Carry out detailed technical research across legislation, standards, guidance documents and industry publications.

• Critically evaluate technical content, challenge maintenance tasks, frequencies and skill sets, and exercise sound judgement in areas of ambiguity.

• Verify statutory maintenance criticalities and supporting legal justifications and validate that maintenance schedules reflect current legislation, industry standards and recognised best practice.

• Review technical content across multiple disciplines, applying structured research, sound judgement and a willingness to build awareness of unfamiliar specialist areas where needed.

• Bring a commercial, pragmatic and curious approach to technical compliance, supporting constructive stakeholder engagement and helping to drive alignment across internal and external subject matter experts.

• Assess whether supporting technical evidence sufficiently justifies proposed maintenance recommendations.

• Identify gaps, inconsistencies or conflicts within technical content, legislation or supporting guidance.

• Work collaboratively with Technical Authors and subject matter experts to resolve technical queries and compliance challenges.

• Escalate unresolved or technically complex matters through the appropriate governance and specialist review processes.

• Produce clear, structured and defensible compliance review documentation and audit trails.

• Contribute to the development and continual improvement of compliance processes, review methodologies and governance frameworks, including structured systems for tracking compliance reviews, actions, outcomes and audit records as the compliance function evolves.

• Support technical compliance assessments relating to platform developments, operational processes and customer-facing content.

• Stay up to date with legislative, technical and industry developments relevant to maintenance, facilities management and compliance.

• Create and fact-check related content, such as blogs and articles.

• Demonstrate persistence and curiosity in resolving technical ambiguity and conflicting guidance.

About you

Experience

• Experience in building services engineering, facilities management, maintenance engineering, design engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Strong understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements relating to maintenance and facilities management.

• Ability to interpret legislation, standards and guidance documents and apply them in technical or operational settings.

• Ability to critically evaluate technical information and identify inconsistencies, omissions or areas requiring clarification.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with persistence and curiosity to work through ambiguity and conflicting information.

• Confident challenging technical conclusions and recommendations in a professional and evidence-based manner.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong working knowledge of the wider Microsoft Office packages.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document technical reasoning and conclusions.

• Ability to manage multiple reviews and priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

• Comfortable working in evolving environments and contributing to the development of new processes, systems and governance structures.

• Ability to carry out technical due diligence activities relating to platform developments, operational processes and customer-facing content.

• Collaborative mindset with the confidence to engage constructively with technical specialists and stakeholders.

Desirable

• Degree in engineering, building services, facilities management, compliance or related discipline.

• Professional membership or accreditation (e.g. CIBSE, IWFM, IMechE, IET, IOSH).

• Experience working with maintenance standards or technical compliance frameworks.

• Experience participating in technical governance, audit or assurance processes.

• Experience working across multiple engineering or technical disciplines.

• Familiarity with ISO9001 or structured quality management systems.

• Experience supporting or contributing to technical committees, working groups or specialist panels.

Our Benefits

• 🏖 26 days holiday + bank holidays (with the option to buy more)

• 💰 Company pension scheme

• 🛡 Life assurance for added peace of mind

• 🏥 Private medical insurance with BUPA

• 👨‍👩‍👧 Enhanced family-friendly benefits

• 🎁 Perkbox, offering a wide range of discounts, perks and everyday savings

• 🤝 Volunteering leave to support causes that matter to you

• 🚗 Octopus Electric Vehicle scheme, offering a more affordable way to drive electric

• 💙 Access to wellbeing support via WeCare

• 🚀and more!

   

Additional Information

All candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. We are unfortunately not able to offer sponsorship. Documentary evidence will be required.

All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are our priorities, and we’re ensuring we have lots of support so our people can grow at SFG20 and do their best work!

We embrace diversity by fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome, safe and able to bring their whole self to work.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.