Registered Building Inspector - Class 2F to 3H
Department: Operations - Field Based
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Nationwide
Compensation: Competitive
Description
P4 isn't your typical safety consultancy. We exist to bring clarity, pace and real-world support to an industry often bogged down in red tape and vague advice. We work with clients, design teams and contractors across the UK from offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and London.
We talk like real people. We are not here to impress with jargon or hide behind processes — we are here to help clients make smart decisions, avoid risk and deliver safer, better buildings. Our Building Safety Act team is growing, and this role is central to that growth.
We recognise that every person is unique, and we work hard to build a culture where everyone can be themselves. Whether that means flexibility around individual needs or simply making sure people have someone to talk to when they need it, we want everyone here to feel welcome, heard and valued.
About the role
We are looking for experienced building regulations practitioners, registered with the Building Safety Regulator, to review designs for compliance and advise clients and design teams through the Building Regulations and the Building Safety Act - including higher-risk buildings and Gateway 2 and 3 submissions.
These are hands‑on technical roles, not oversight roles. You will be reading drawings and specifications, forming a compliance position, evidencing it, and defending it in front of design teams and the Regulator. We are hiring more than one person, at consultant through to principal level, and we will appoint you at the level your registration class and track record support.
A note on registration and restricted activities. P4 is a client‑side consultancy. We act as Building Regulations Principal Designer, BSA client adviser and Gateway lead — we are not currently a Registered Building Control Approver, so this role does not involve carrying out restricted activities or restricted functions as a building control body. Your registration matters to us as the competence benchmark the industry now recognises, and because we are building out an RBCA capability. If that is the direction you want to travel, tell us at interview.
We work across the UK from offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and London, so the range of building types is far wider than it would be in a single regional team.
Sectors
- Residential — high-rise and mid-rise apartment schemes, build-to-rent, student‑adjacent and affordable housing, from single plots to multi‑block, multi‑phase developments.
- Purpose‑built student accommodation — including large towers running to several hundred and, in places, over a thousand bed spaces.
- Healthcare — live, occupied hospital estates and phased refurbishment.
- Education — schools, academy programmes and university estates.
- Custodial and secure — operational estate work.
- Hotels, commercial and mixed‑use — including tenant fit‑out within occupied buildings.
- Heritage, listed fabric and major refurbishment, plus industrial, logistics and distribution.
Scale and complexity
- Higher‑risk buildings — at least 18m or seven storeys with two or more residential units — are a core part of the workload, taken through Gateway 2 and Gateway 3.
- Buildings range from low‑rise and mid‑rise blocks up to towers of fifty storeys and above, on commissions running from a single building to portfolio, framework and retained arrangements.
- Alongside new build, a significant share of the work is remediation, refurbishment and change of use.
National coverage. Consultants work across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East, the Midlands, London and the South East, and the South West. Wherever you are based, expect a national workload rather than a regional one.
Key Responsibilities
Design and compliance review
- Review drawings, specifications, schedules and design information against the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended) and the Approved Documents, and form a clear, evidenced compliance position.
- Identify non‑compliance and technical uncertainty early, and set out what is needed to resolve it rather than simply reporting that a gap exists.
- Assess alternative and performance‑based solutions on their merits, and record the reasoning and evidence that supports acceptance.
- Track compliance as the design develops and as change is introduced, rather than
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