Description
As a Building Control Lead Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping safe, sustainable and high quality development across Haringey and beyond.
You will lead a team of Building Control professionals, overseeing the full range of statutory and commercial building control services – from pre application advice and plan assessment to site inspections, enforcement, dangerous structures and safety at sports grounds.
You will act as a senior professional decision maker for the Council, exercising expert judgement on complex and high risk schemes, including those within scope of the Building Safety Regulator.
Working closely with colleagues across Planning, Housing, Property, Highways, Schools and Emergency Planning, as well as external partners, you will help deliver new homes, major regeneration, safe events and improved outcomes for residents.
The successful candidate will have:
- Substantial technical experience in delivering and managing building control services, including work on complex and higher risk buildings within the scope of the Building Safety Regulator.
- Professional membership of RICS, CABE, CIOB, ABE or another relevant body.
- Registration with the Building Safety Regulator at Class 3, enabling you to work unsupervised on all relevant building categories.
- A relevant degree (e.g., Building Control, Building Surveying, Construction, Structural Engineering) or equivalent learning and experience.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience supervising staff, developing teams and managing performance.
- Expert knowledge of building regulations, associated legislation and the Building Safety Act, with the ability to make sound, autonomous professional decisions.
- Experience managing dangerous structures, Safety at Sports Grounds and emergency response, including out of hours duties.
The salary for this role is GBP 75,537 - 87,015 per year.
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.