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Chelmsford City Council are recruiting a Senior Building Control Officer to work within our Building Control Services Team.

The Senior Building Control Officer will work as part of a team responsible for assisting in the enforcement of the Building Regulations. Responsibilities include assessing plans for compliance with the Building Regulations and undertaking site visits to inspect building works under construction as well as keeping accurate records relating to all decisions made. The successful applicant will also provide advice to construction professionals, building owners and members of the public as well as acting as lead officer on complex projects and representing the Council on a multi-disciplinary team, assisting the Building Safety Regulator to discharge their function as the building control authority for higher risk buildings in the Chelmsford area.

Further responsibilities include the inspection of reported dangerous structures and ensuring that appropriate action is undertaken under the powers in the Building Act 1984 and to carry out inspections of demolition works where a notice of demolition has been received as well as conducting investigations into unauthorised building work and carry out the appropriate enforcement action. The Senior Building Control Officer is expected to deputise for the Building Control Team Manager in their absence, supervising daily workloads within the team and ensuring service delivery is met. We are therefore looking for someone with drive and ambition and managerial aspirations to assist the building control manager to take the service forward under the new building control regime.

To be successful for the Senior Building Control Officer vacancy, you must have a relevant qualification, such as a degree qualification or similar in a subject such as Building Surveying or Building Control and a sound knowledge of the relevant provisions in The Building Act 1984, The Building Safety Act 2022, Building Regulations 2010 and associated Approved Documents. It is essential that you have a membership for a relevant professional body such as the RICS, CABE or CIOB. In addition, you will be registered with the Building Safety Regulator as a Class 3 (specialist) up to category H or in the process of undertaking a competency validation with one of the accepted accreditors, (i.e. BSCF, CABE BICAS or Total Training)

The ideal applicant will have an excellent knowledge of construction technology and the building process as well possessing excellent verbal and written communication skills, IT literacy skills and possess a full driving licence with access to a vehicle.

As part of our accreditation with Essex Family Friendly Employers Charter, this full-time role can be offered on a job share or part-time basis, providing we are able to recruit to the remaining hours. Should this be of interest to you please state so in your personal statement. Further information on the family friendly charter can be found: https://www.essex.gov.uk/family-friendly-charter/family-friendly-employer-principles

Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment vetting which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.

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