Senior Building Control Surveyor

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Please apply online via the link provided.

Rochford District Council is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  People with disabilities will be offered an interview where they meet the Essential Criteria on the Person Specification. 

It is our policy that if you have not heard back within 3 weeks of the closing date you should assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Job title:  Senior Building Control Surveyor 

Contract type: Full-time, permanent 

Salary: £42,839 - £46,142 (PO6 – PO9) plus market supplement of £8,000 per annum 

Location:  Rochford/ Launchpad 

Department:  Building Control 

Benefits:  

• A friendly, customer focused and supportive team. 

• Opportunities for flexible and agile working, we offer a hybrid model of working to promote flexible working around personal and family commitments 

• Generous annual leave 

• One professional membership payment. 

• Payment of ongoing BSR registration fees. 

• Enrolment onto the LABC MyCPD system. 

• Regular opportunities for development with internal and external training courses for ongoing CPD. 

• Local government pension scheme  

• Staff discounts 

Our culture and values: 

We like our staff to be proactive and innovative. Being customer focused and willing to maximise your potential at work are expected. We all work together to achieve the very best for our residents which sometimes means getting involved in projects and trying new tasks outside of your day to day job role. We love our staff to suggest new ideas and to have enthusiasm to try out new experiences.   

About the role: 

Please note - You must be a registered building inspector with the Building Safety Regulator, minimum class 2A to apply.

Would you like tobecome an integral part of our successful Building Control team. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, qualified Building Control professional to join our supportive, modern, customer focused team, to ensure buildings are compliant and residents and visitors of the Borough for safe. 

You’ll join our proactive customer focused Building Control team which has been involved in some exciting developments recently and also has a number of exciting projects to get involved with, including housing developments and commercial projects across the borough. 

You will experience plenty of variety as you manage and progress a broad range of building control projects to effective completion. In addition, you will help to grow our business by establishing and strengthening working relationships with architects, developers as well as other existing or potential clients. 

About you: 

We are looking for a team member who has a degree in Building Surveying or equivalent construction discipline and has corporate full membership of either MRICS, MCABE or MCIOB and must be registered at either Class 2 or 3 with the Building Safety Regulator. You must be self-motivated, be able to work on own initiative and have broad experience in Building Control legislation and enforcement processes. You must have proven excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

For an informal discussion: 

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rob Sadler, Building Control Manager on [phone removed] or email [email removed]