Building Officer in Birmingham

Building Safety Officer

Permanent

Grade 4 – £33,366 – £40,476

Consultation grade – subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

This position is to support the Senior Building Manager in driving the Council\’s success in meeting its statutory building safety obligations as a responsibly landlord whilst continuously striving to improve the safety of its residents, properties, compliance, and stock condition.

As a member of a professional team your role will be pivotal in providing senior management with assurance that building, fire, and statutory compliance requirements within its residential stock is being effectively managed.

You will be directed and supported by a Building Safety Manager to ensure and assure robust monitoring across our residential stock through site-based inspections and checks.These programmes and plans will be based on accurate stock data and information, with key building information maintained to inform safety case information for all parties.

This position plays a crucial role in assuring our residential stock is safe and compliant with related regulatory requirements achieved via positive engagement with stakeholders, site-based inspections, and post work checks that you will be required to undertake. This will ensure an acceptable level of demonstrable compliance is being both achieved and maintained, through quality data and evidence to support all related activities.

Your role will be to assist the Council to remain at the forefront of industry standards by delivering a high-quality asset management service and contributing to a culture of trust, by creating a working environment that is supportive and high performing.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, andwe arecommitted to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

We strive to advertise all roles for a minimum of two weeks. However, due to high application volumes vacancies may close earlier than the stated deadline. We encourage you to submit your application without delay to ensure consideration.