Principal Building Control Surveyor - Property Services

What's involved with this role: Interim Principal Building Control Surveyor - Property Services Job Ref: Stoke Key Requirements:

• Relevant technical qualifications such as a degree building surveying or a combination of qualifications and experience that demonstrates an expert knowledge in the service areas functions and responsibilities.
• Expert Knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation, and its application in relation to the functions of the service area.
• Demonstrable experience of working with elected members in a constructive and politically sensitive manner, underpinned by a good knowledge of current local government issues.
• Experience in implementing effective service delivery, including the use of relevant technology, managing budgets and other resources, working in partnership with other organisations and the successful procurement and delivery of projects.
• Experience of working unsupervised on Safety at Sports Ground and Dangerous Structures.
• Excellent communication and presentational skills, both written and oral. Including the preparation of briefing notes.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).

The purpose of the role is to support the directorate team to deliver high quality professional Building Control service for Stoke-on-Trent City Council and partner authorities.Key Responsibilities:

• Support the team manager in having operational management responsibility for staff covering the Stoke -on -Trent City Council area, subject to the Strategic manager's guidance for statutory building regulation and associated advisory services for the city council and partner authorities including the exercise of delegated powers.
• Deputise for the team manager as and when required.
• Support the Team Manager in ensuring that the local authority fulfils its legal regulatory function and national minimum performance standards and the authority's own objectives in relation to the service area.
• Support the Strategic Manager and Team Manager in developing plans, policies and procedures to deliver appropriate services to support the directorate's objectives.
• Promote and develop a high-quality approach to how we deliver services.
• Support in the effective overall running of the directorate as a member of the senior leadership team within the directorate and by undertaking any other duties as required by the Strategic Manager.
• Support the Team Manager in being responsible for service delivery and developments within the specified services.
• Work closely with the Team Manager team to agree priorities of development and change.
• Administer and service partnership boards of officers and elected members in connection with business planning process.
• Support the team manager to lead and manage an effective, high performance and customer focused team and to work with customers and service users to plan and deliver services.
• Promote and deliver transformational change in order to continuously improve services.
• Support the Team Manager to be responsible for the quality of services provided by the team.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please