Building Works Officer

**Building Works Officer**:

- Date: 23 Jun 2025
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucester City Council job.
- Job Title: Building Works Officer
- Job Location: Gloucester City Council
- Salary: £36,124 - £38,626 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 07/07/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 11673
- This post is open to job share

We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester.

Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day. We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.

It’s an exciting time to join Gloucester City Council as we move forward with our ambitious plans for the city. We’re working on multi-million pound regeneration schemes that will transform the city centre, driving cultural change with a varied programme of festivals and events and making the most of our wonderful history and heritage. We are passionate about our city and making Gloucester a vibrant and dynamic city to live, work and visit.

**About the role**

Our property and asset management team over see everything from day-to-day maintenance works to large scale projects as well as providing vital support for the Major Projects and Regeneration team in delivering some of the city’s most notable projects. As a Building works Officer at Gloucester City Council you will play a pivotal role in supporting the management team in driving sustainability initiatives, refurbishing properties, maintaining planned maintenance schedules, compliance registers and supporting the corporate Health and Safety function within the team in relation to building ownership.

The Council own a very diverse property portfolio of predominantly commercial buildings ranging from community centres, shopping centres, retail parks, office blocks, cultural buildings such as the City Museum and Guildhall all the way through to scheduled monument and a variety of other grade I and II listed buildings. It really is an exciting time to come and work for the property department.

Your Responsibilities
- Ensure building compliance with council regulations and wider building regulations
- Ensure codes of conduct are adhered to with regards all aspects of Health and Safety such as control of contractors, CDM etc.
- Manage planned and reactive maintenance programmed working with both internal and external teams.
- Carry out building condition inspections and reports
- Identify and manage external specialist contractors
- A degree or relevant qualification in the building / property industry such as MCIOB or MRICS
- A relevant technical qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Experience of building relationships with stakeholders
- Experience of public sector procurement processes

**What we can offer you**
- Flexible, hybrid/agile working opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days
- An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
- 2 days paid leave every year to participate in local volunteering activities
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Regular training and career development opportunities
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone, and an in-house Occupational Health service
- Enhanced family friendly leave and pay
- Cycle to Work scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply)
- Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply)
- Employee discount scheme

If you're ready to bring your expertise to a role where you can make a real impact in the cultural life of Gloucester, we would love to hear from you.

**How to apply**

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below:

- Building Works Officer - Job Profile

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Equality and Diversity**
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.

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