Building Control Surveyor

**Building Control Surveyor**

**Salary**:£32,076 to £40,221 (Subject to pay award)

**Grade**:I-JKCareer graded

**Contract**:Full Time, permanent

**Location**:Hybrid with expectation to attend offices in North Yorkshire when required including NYBCP Head office at Easingwold, Civic Centre (Skipton) and Civic Centre (Harrogate)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Building Control team working within the heart of North Yorkshire. The Building Control Service prides itself on aiming to deliver a cost effective, efficient and professional service to all clients.

**About Us**

North Yorkshire Building Control Partnership (NYBCP) was the first Local Authority Building Control Partnership in the UK. We provide a flexible and modern building control service on behalf of North Yorkshire Council.

**The Role**

We are seeking Building Control Surveyors registered or ready to work towards registration at Class 1 with the Building Safety Regulatorto effectively deliver the Building Control function throughout North Yorkshire and contribute towards the objectives of the council. Working alongside a professional team, you will be competent in all Building Control and administrative matters, ensuring that appropriate buildings meet the regulatory standards in safety, sustainability, accessibility and design.

You will initiate and assist with enforcement action to ensure delivery of the council’s obligations under the Building Act and associated legislation, whilst working within a highly competitive market. The post holder will ensure a strong and efficient performance culture with a focus on service excellence and customer satisfaction.

**What You Can Bring**

Can you help towards effectively delivering the Building Control function throughout North Yorkshire? The Building Control Service requires Building Control Surveyors to help ensure that appropriate buildings meet the regulatory standards in safety, sustainability, accessibility and design. You will need to be a team player, able to prioritize a busy workload and demonstrate a proactive approach to plan assessment and site inspection work, checking compliance with Building Regulations and associated legislation.

You need to be able to perform within a highly competitive market, working to ensure a strong and efficient performance culture with a focus on service excellence and customer satisfaction.

If you are training towards a role as a Building Control Surveyor and are unsure if you would meet the essential criteria, please do not hesitate to contact us for an informal discussion.

Working in Building Control you will be surrounded by a supportive, established team of building control professionals. As a North Yorkshire Council employee, you will have access to some great benefits via our everybody benefit’s scheme such as shopping discounts, home technology and green car salary sacrifice schemes, financial wellbeing and health assured and our employee assistance programme to assist with your health and wellbeing. You will also have access to our local government pension scheme, a generous plan for your retirement with the option to increase your monthly contribution if you so wish.

**Key Dates**:
**Closing date: 05/05/2024**

**Interview Date WC 13/05/2024**

**We can offer you**

**Job security** - Job security in today’s climate can be somewhat uncertain. We pride ourselves on being able to offer diverse careers with breath and longevity, having the stability of working for large, complex organisations delivering vital public services.

**Working atmosphere** - We offer a good working environment at work, with professional employers. While we always provide high standards of work, it is important to us that all our employees have the right work / life balance; so you can enjoy the things in life that matter to you. We have fun at work too We believe we do our best work when we love what we do

**Flexible working** - As we deliver vital services to the general public, this brings into sharp focus the complexity of people’s lives, and the need for work and home life to complement each other. We recognise the different circumstances of our employees. We offer flexible working hours to improve the services by individuals or teams working beyond the standard day, and to help employees to balance their work and home commitments. Being 'digital by default' can enable greater flexibility around home or remote working. This connectivity can ensure that in extreme weather conditions people can safely work from home instead of risking a treacherous journey. Part-time jobs and job sharing are the norm in the public sector.

**Training & Development** - We are fully committed to realising the potential in all our staff. We have robust programmes of training and development to improve our employees’ knowledge and skill sets. We always encourage employees to further develop their knowledge base and up skill with additional qualifications an