Building Control Manager - Castle Point Borough Council
Permanent, Full Time
£57,942 - £63,982
Location: Castle Point
Closing Date: Wednesday 19th March 2025
Why Castle Point? Castle Point Borough Council is a statutory body responsible for employing nearly 350 staff, and delivering over 150 council services, both statutory and for the community's well-being and benefit. Castle Point Borough Council aims to provide high-quality and financially sustainable services while prioritising outstanding customer service, transparency in decision-making, and promoting local democracy. Additionally, the council seeks to transform, modernize, and improve its performance, as well as support and enable the communities within its jurisdiction to be strong, healthy, and thriving.
Our values: Trust, Respect, Improving and Learning, and Customer Focus
The Opportunity:
Castle Point Borough Council have a rare opportunity for a Building Control Manager to join them on a permanent basis due to the current manager retiring, after a long and fulfilling career at the Council. This opportunity will allow the new person to take the lead in shaping the department during an exciting period of change and transformation. The Building Control Manager will lead a team of three officers to ensure the effective, competitive, and efficient operation of the Building Control team to maintain the high-quality service that is currently offered. This includes validating applications, checking fees, undertaking site inspections and enforcing Building Regulations. This role will require the successful applicant to be based in the office and travel around the borough on a regular basis.
Main Accountabilities:
- Managing the Building Control Service, including the provision of advice and guidance in accordance with the Council’s policies and procedures
- Defining what best practice and optimum looks like and inputting that into service plans, budgets and monitoring, including within agreed limits cost centre management responsibilities; to recruit staff and ensure that staff development plans are agreed, and appraisals against those plans are undertaken; to identify own and staff development and training needs; to input into corporate projects as required; and if required deputise for the Assistant Director of Development Service
- Vetting, Approving and Rejecting applications for compliance with the Building Regulations and associated legislation
- Carrying out site inspections on all aspects of construction, checking for compliance with the Building Regulations and associated legislation
- Inspection and enforcement of Dangerous Structures and possible unauthorised work
- Accept and inspect notice to local authority of intended demolition under section 80 Building Act
- To assist in the management, training, motivation and development of officers at lower levels, trainees and assistants and their checking of their work
- To be committed to continuing professional development, keeping informed and up to date on best practice, relevant legislation and current planning issues and to implement service, technological and culture changes and improvements necessary to maintain and enhance the development management function at the leading edge of best practice
- To be responsible for street naming and postal numbering throughout the borough
- To represent the Council at internal and external meetings on behalf of the Assistant Director
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation and operating requirements, including implementation of any necessary improvements following changes to legislation or 3 operating procedures i.e. Operational Standards Rules (OSRs), LABC QMS
The Experience You Will Bring
- A Class 2 (A-F) Registered Building Inspector (RBI)
- Advanced knowledge of Building Regulations, legislation and law governing Building Control
- Significant experience of working within a Registered Building Control Approver (RBCA)
- Advanced knowledge of best practice in relation to all aspects of Building Control, covering but not limited to plan checking, inspections, KPIs, dangerous structures, DDA compliance and enforcement
- Ability to understand and interpret complex data and information, provide solutions and recommendations to achieve appropriate long-term outcomes
- Confident to present information and write reports for a range of audiences, including elected Members
- Ability to deal with unexpected problems and take decisive actions/decisions to resolve them
Castle Point Borough Council is proud to be a disability confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
Castle Point Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email Louise.Butler@essex.gov.uk