Job Title: Building Control Team Manager
Location: Islington (Hybrid/Remote)
Salary/Rate: £500
Start Date: 02/12/2024
Job Type: Contract (6 months)

To lead on and deliver a high quality Building Control service. To act as the principal technical adviser and expert on Building Control matters and to be responsible for technical and legal compliance with the Building Acts and Building Regulations. To make decisions in accordance with an appropriate scheme of delegation in the capacity of District Surveyor.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives:

• Deliver exceptional building control services to diverse stakeholders, ensuring compliance and high customer satisfaction.
• Manage daily operations and lead the Council's response on complex or sensitive building control cases.
• Act as the Council's technical expert, representing the Council in appeals, court cases, and public hearings.
• Oversee the recruitment, training, and development of staff, ensuring professional growth and effective performance appraisals.
• Manage budgets, including income monitoring, expenditure authorisation, and forward planning.
• Handle complaints and queries, ensuring timely resolutions and service improvements.
• Develop and implement cost recovery models, innovative procedures, and income-generation strategies.
• Lead the expansion of Partnership Schemes and corporate collaborations.
• Ensure compliance with building regulations on Council projects and develop quality management systems to meet key performance indicators.
• Manage dangerous structures, fire safety, and structural safety issues, including emergency interventions.
• Represent the service in internal and external meetings, contributing to policies and procedures.
• Undertake enforcement actions, prepare evidence, and serve as a witness when required.
• Collaborate with team leaders and provide coverage for their duties as needed.
• Participate in the Council's dangerous structure rota and ensure efficient resource management.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Extensive post qualification experience in Building Control
• Hold corporate membership of ABE, RICS (Building Control), Institution of Structural Engineers or equivalent.
• Experience of effective management of staff and resources by implementing a performance based approach.
• Experience of making robust and defendable decisions on legal and technical building control and other related matters, ensuring that all decisions are consistent with the Council's policies and other material considerations.
• Experience of managing a budget including the monitoring of income and expenditure as well as detailed budget profiling, reviewing and forward planning as necessary.
• Ability to manage a team including the monitoring of workloads, priorities and performance.
• Ability to undertake high level and complex negotiations with service users and other interested parties to ensure the Councils policies are met.
• To have extensive knowledge of relevant legislation and the ability to act as the lead officer ensuring compliance and enforcement within the Building Regulations and ancillary legislation.
• Ability to ensure the effective and efficient management of the team undertaking management tasks allocated by the Head of Service.
• Ability to lead the organisation on structural safety of buildings and dealing with dangerous structures.
• Have good written and oral communications skills including the communication of legal and technical requirements.
• Ability and experience of identifying, developing and maintaining business opportunities, partnerships and client relationships in a manner that secures work for the service.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational skills together with experience of developing and maintaining performance management systems.
• Be proficient in the use of IT and its application to the service.
• Ability to adhere to the Councils Dignity for All Policy.
• This post is subject to the Council's policy on pecuniary and personal interest.
• This post is designated politically restricted.
• Have extensive expert post qualification experience and knowledge of Building Control matters.
• Expert understanding of Fire Safety, CDM, or structural safety.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of managing a building control team.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of identifying, designing and implementing service improvement measures and opportunities to generate income for the service.
• Ability to work corporately and constructively across the council, professional boundaries and sectors and to be the building regulation Lead Officer on specific related tasks and projects.
• Ability to cover the work of other team leaders within the service and to contribute to the management of the Division through participation in the Divisional Management Team, by undertaking cross service tasks or projects as assigned by that team.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.