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Role Purpose
To lead a team of Building Control Surveyors to ensure that construction work is in accordance with legislation and regulatory standards, to ensure the delivery of efficient, effective, economic, and equitable services. The role is a Senior Building Control expert and will therefore take the lead in the more complex cases as well as lead a team.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead the Building Control team, acting as senior professional advisor to the team on all Building Control matters, to deliver a professional Building Control service for BCP.
- Allocate, monitor and review Building Control casework, to ensure an efficient workload across the team and to make sure that the decisions and recommendations made are accurate and in line with regulatory standards and best practice.
- Provide authoritative Building Control advice and advanced observations on construction, design and safety issues for complex projects at the pre-application stage, to reduce the risk of non-compliance or approval delays in the most complex cases.
- Examine and assess complex or complicated applications (using information such as submitted construction plans, drawings and specifications), against building regulations to decide if applications are compliant with regulations and can proceed to construction.
- Inspect and survey buildings and building methods (typically the more complex constructions or those using novel methods/materials) throughout the construction process against regulations concerning safety, accessibility, and sustainability, and provide specialist advice and advanced solutions to any issues identified based on an expert technical knowledge, to ensure that building works are compliant with necessary standards and regulations.
- Lead on enforcement activity for unauthorised and non-compliant building works, to ensure that non-compliance can be prosecuted effectively as required. This involves preparing documents and serving enforcement notices in complex cases, as well as supporting more junior officers with undertaking enforcement activity.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of processes and procedures relating to Building Control, informed by policies and operational experience of what works and what doesn't, to ensure that building control policies can be applied successfully.
- Ensure accurate records of all inspections and associated work carried out by the team are maintained, so that all information is accessible and auditable, and can be used in legal proceedings if required.
- Contribute to defining the professional fee rates, and support colleagues to calculate fees so that the service can invoice customers appropriately.
- Take the lead in building relationships with new and existing customers, and in marketing the service to support the promotion, growth and reputation of the service.
- To participate in the provision of an ‘out of office hours’ service, dealing with dangerous structures and/or major emergencies.
- To comply with all decisions, policies and Financial Regulations of the Council and any relevant statutory requirements, including Equal Opportunities legislation, the Health and Safety at Work Act, CDM Regulations, Freedom of Information and Data Protection Act.
- To undertake any other duties as required commensurate with this level of post and deputise for the Building Control Manager, including at Unit Management Team meetings, when required.
Knowledge/skills/experience
- Degree or equivalent professional qualifications in a construction related discipline.
- Professional membership of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Association of Building Engineers or Chartered Institute of Building.
- Registered with the BSR ideally at Class 3 but as a minimum class 2 and working towards class 3.
- Significant experience in the construction industry.
- Significant experience of Building Control and enforcement activity.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Building Regulations and legislation relating to construction.
- Ability to plan and manage workload across a team.
- Continual Performance Development (CPD)
- Experience of supervising/managing a team.
- Advanced knowledge of construction techniques, building materials and industry products and systems.
- Ability to influence, persuade and generate understanding and acceptance based on technical knowledge.
Aptitude/abilities
- Good communication skills
- Ability to lead and motivate staff
- Ability to work as a team member
- Strong decision-making ability based on sound judgement
- Ability to manage a busy and complex workload
- High level of IT skills and a sound knowledge of the use of computerised databases within the Building Control environment
- The ability to travel around the conurbations
- Ability to attend construction sites, within the conurbation, at any time
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Highly effective interpersonal skills
Attitude/motivation
- Commitment of the delivery of high-quality services
- Self-motivated
- Positive about work in an open and empowered culture
- Commitment to working in partnership with others and have a proactive approach towards the development of efficient, effective, economic, and equitable, consumer focused services
- Flexible approach to meet the needs of residents, Members, management, media and contractors, to meet service targets
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website.
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. This is expected to be in place in 2024.
