Building Control Team Leader (Class 3)

Starting salary for this role is £53,460 (pro rata for part-time colleagues).

Role Purpose

To lead a team of Building Control Staff to enable effective delivery of Building Control services in accordance with legislation and regulatory standards. 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

• Manage a team to enable effective delivery of Building Control services. This includes managing and motivating the team, performance management, and contributing to recruitment.
• Exercise statutory authority as a registered Class 3 Building Control professional, acting as the Council’s competent person for complex and high-risk building work under the Building Act 1984 and Building Safety Act 2022.
• Act as a senior technical authority for complex, high rise, and higher risk buildings, providing expert advice, peer review, and decision making assurance.
• Ensure robust operational delivery of statutory plan checking, site inspection, and enforcement functions, maintaining audit ready records in accordance with national regulator and BCP Council requirements.
• Ensure compliance with legal obligations, such as Building Regulations and the Building Act and have a thorough understanding of relevant legislation, which sets out the statutory duties of the Council.
• Manage and control project, service and programme budgets to ensure that spend is within financial limits, value for money is achieved, and to help protect the financial health of the Council.
• 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, in order 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 surveyors 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.

The Ideal Candidate

• Essential - Class 3 Registered Building Inspector Degree in a construction related discipline or equivalent.
• Extensive post qualification experience in local authority or equivalent Building Control, including management of complex and high risk buildings.
• Detailed working knowledge of the Building Act 1984, Building Regulations, Approved Documents, Building Safety Act 2022, and associated secondary legislation and guidance.
• Experience of leading professional teams, including supervision of technical decision making, quality assurance, and competency management.
• Strong professional judgement and the ability to make and defend regulatory decisions under scrutiny, including enforcement action and regulatory challenge.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. CABE, CIOB, RICS).
• Comprehensive understanding of relevant legislation and legal knowledge associated with statutory duties of the council and understanding of administrating contracts.
• Financial management skills and commercial acumen.
• Problem solving and risk management skills associated with managing major projects and/or complex programmes/services, and ability to manage conflicting priorities.
• Ability to build relationships with and persuade and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to engage and motivate teams of technical and professional staff.

Please note, this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and we can only consider applicants with existing right to work in the UK.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We’re committed to providing a fully inclusive recruitment process ensuring every candidate and colleague has the support and reasonable adjustments they need to thrive. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and will always do our best to make your experience positive and accessible.