Job Details
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The post holder is to actively oversee and assure compliance with the requirements for the Building Safety Act 2022, Fire Safety Act 2021, and associated statutory building safety management systems required to deliver the building control service.
The post holder is responsible for determining building control applications of all land uses for buildings up to 20 storeys. To deliver an efficient and high quality service in relation to all technical tasks on building control applications; building control enforcement; quality assurance; corporate enquiries and financial support. To deliver a customer focused service that maintains the market share. To be responsible for record keeping for building control applications to ensure compliance with the Building Safety Act and Fire Safety Act.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Support the Building Control Inspector – Manger to lead on processing building control applications to ensure that all procedures in force are followed and operating smoothly to establish and maintain a high standard of service. This includes scheduling to ensure decisions are made within 8 week, clear communications with the customer and Building Control team, and escalation to the Group Manager when there are issues that require review.
2. Organise and manage the processing of building control and related applications, building control enforcement investigations, corporate enquiries according to statutory and departmental requirements and policies.
3. Review data systems related to the building safety programme to identify, recommend and influence both the rate of investment and efficiencies in relation to system weaknesses, process gaps and opportunities for further improvement of existing systems (including Uniform) and/or embedding new IT solutions (including Modern Data Platform).
4. Effectively contribute to the business support quality assurance team to provide ongoing reassurance that accurate data and information to whole building safety and statutory compliance associated with all types of properties under 20 stories are in place and available for all building control applications within the post holder’s responsibility with a direct report to the Building Control Inspector – Group Manager.
5. Actively contribute to the development, writing, implementation and maintenance of the Building Control ISO9001 by enabling policy, procedure and guidance for a whole building safety system to support the councils’ governance framework so that it accurately reflects day to day operations demonstrating its effectiveness through the gathering of user feedback, change management, communication and reporting.
6. Actively engage with subject matter experts, engineers, developers and other relevant specialists to identify, capture and formally document Building Control ISO9001 procedures and applied processes ensuring that all factors are considered.
Umbrella hourly rate – £45
