Building Control Surveyor

Description:

Building Control Surveyor

6 Months Contract

£24.38 Per hour

JOB PURPOSE of the Building Control Surveyor : To be responsible for providing professional building control advice and carrying out appropriate enforcement of the Building Regulations. Provide a comprehensive Building Control Service to deliver a safe built environment outcome for the community.

Regulator Registration and CABE, CIOB or RICS

All employees are required to acquaint themselves with the our policies, procedures and Values and to abide by them at all times. Our Values are Respect, Innovate, Collaborate and Deliver and it is expected that employees will:

• be Respectful towards the business, each other as colleagues as well as our community, residents, service users, stakeholders and wider partners.

• be Innovative in everything we do and voice improvements to ensure we offer quality services

• act Collaboratively and ensure our successful journey of collaboration continues to ensure that we maximise opportunities to achieve success

• deliver quality services to all and strive to always deliver the best we can with the resources available

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES - Building Control Surveyor

In a professional capacity, provide sound and timely guidance and make recommendations on all aspects of building works that fall within the scope of the Building Regulations in order to ensure that building and construction work is carried out in accordance with the Building Regulations.

This includes:

Standard/Rec/Job Description Employees

• Advising and assisting members of the public by providing factual information on applications and their status.

• Process applications, assessing proposals against the regulations and relevant technical advice, check completions, check constraints and prepare and carry out consultations.

• Carry out site inspections of work in progress, make full and accurate records and where necessary follow up to their conclusion, including any enforcement action required.

• Carry out enforcement duties where approval has not been sought and the works being carried out are unauthorised.

• Check and approve submitted applications for Building Regulations compliance, forming fully justified decisions to approve or reject proposals.

• Carry out assessments of design calculations.

• Provide factual information, advice and guidance as required on the need for Building

Regulation approval, the status of applications and issues raised or identified.

• Hold pre-submission discussions.

• Determine that the appropriate Building Regulation fees are charged for works that do not fall within the list of publicised building control fees for Darlington. This includes providing competitive individual determined fee quotations, issued in a professional and timely manner.

Deal with reports of dangerous structures, attend the site of reported dangerous structures, make arrangements for the danger to be removed, authorise emergency work which could initially be at the expense of the company, and implement relevant processes to ensure the safety of the public.

This may include initiating legal action against the owner of the structure to have it made safe and have any costs incurred by the business recovered.

Organise, monitor, develop and deploy appropriate resources within the team as required and on a day to day basis direct the work, mentor and give guidance to the Building Control Technician, to assist them to carry out their duties in a competent manner and provide a co-ordinated delivery of service that is efficient and effective in line with Council strategic and service objectives.

Contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of policy and other decisions of the team and Departmental Management Team.

Contribute to the management of relevant works programmes and advising on priorities and costs as appropriate.

Work to achieve the relevant standards of performance and measures of efficiency to ensure that services are being effectively delivered

Prepare reports on building control applications, policies, strategies to deliver approvals and advise other parties to enable stake holders to achieve building control compliance.

Represent the business to appropriate external bodies, including pre application meetings, at projects meetings or public meetings as required.

Assist where necessary in the undertaking of surveys and research to establish the needs of the community and provide the information to assist in the formulation of the our policy and decisions.

Standard/Rec/Job Description Employees

Working Together to Deliver Success

Respect Innovate Collaborate Deliver

As and when necessary, deputise for the Building Control Manager.

Contribute to the delivery of projects, which may extend beyond the boundaries of the department.

Keep abreast of all legislation, changes and relevant best practice.

Assist the Building Control Manager, and deputise where required, with the monitoring and inspections of grounds under the Safety of sports grounds Act 1975 and undertaking the duties related to the Public Events Safety Advisory Group.

Maintain and regularly update records and statistics, including researching information and preparing case histories, briefing notes and summaries of technical information.

Maintain and regularly update records on services, ground conditions and other constraints and checking proposals against such records.

Contribute to the promotion of the use of the authorities Building Control Service.

Ensure that you work in line with all the policies and procedures and ensure that you are aware of your obligations under these.

Behave according to the Employees’ Code of Conduct and ensure that you are aware of your obligations and responsibilities re: conflicts of interest, gifts, hospitality and other matters covered by the Code.

Carry out your role in line with the Equality agenda.

To comply with health and safety policies, organisational statements and procedures, report any incidents / accidents/ hazards and take a pro-active approach to health and safety matters in order to protect yourself and others.

Any other duties of a similar nature related to this post that may be required from time-to-time.

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