Careers
Developing your career in Building Control
STG Building Control Partnership is a great way to develop your career working for this local authority partnership of the building control services for Canterbury City Council, Gravesham Borough Council, Medway Council and Swale Borough Council. Our building control surveyors come from a variety of career pathways, including apprenticeships and career changers.
The introduction of the Building Safety Act 2022 has resulted in Building Control becoming a regulated profession, so you will need a licence from the Building Safety Regulator to undertake the restricted duties of a building inspector.
Licences fall under three main categories:
- Class 1 - Trainee Building Inspector - must work under supervision of a registered building inspector with the appropriate scope of registration to supervise the allocated tasks.
- Class 2A to F - General Building Inspector - depending upon the sub-category of their licence they can work on domestic dwellings (2A) to all building types less than 18 metres in height (2F).
- Class 3G to H - Specialist Building Inspector - all building types (3G), including high-risk (3H).
We will support your journey throughout your career and help to acieve the level of classification suitable to you.
Continuous professional development
Continual professional development (CPD) is essential to learn new skills and specialisms, to enhance careers, stay proficient, competent and adjust to industry challenges.
As a Building Control professional working for the partnership, you will be granted access to the Local Authority Building Control's (LABC) Virtual Learning Environment giving you access to hundreds of hours of learning.
Individual learning needs can be highlighted during a personal development review (PDR) and support will be given to find suitable training to progress and maintain your licence.
Building Control Surveyor / Senior Building Control Surveyor (Registered Building Inspector)
Salary: up to £47,691 per annum + car allowance up to £1,239 + additional allowances up to £10,000
Working Location: anywhere within the STG area (Gravesham, Medway, Swale & Canterbury)
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent - 37.00 hours per week
Registration: Class 2 / 3
Support for the "Building Safety Regulator Framework": Training, guidance, development, and financial funding is provided to gain and maintain registration (Class 2/3) as a "Registered Building Inspector".
We are seeking ambitious and driven Building Surveyor/ Senior Surveyor to join our team. We are a friendly and welcoming organisation, who enjoy working and learning together. If you bring a strong track record of delivery as well as enthusiasm and a collaborative approach, then we want to hear from you. We offer agile working, a generous pension scheme and excellent benefits such as flexi leave.
As a Building Surveyor, you will play a vital role in our partnership, contributing to the success of various projects. If you are an experienced professional with a strong background in building control surveying, looking for career growth we encourage you to apply.
What we offer:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays + ex-gratia day)
- Flexi leave
- On-call out of hours payment
- Mileage payments
- Generous employer pension contribution rates of up to 18%
- Payment of one professional subscription
- Career progression framework
- Hyrbrid working
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
- 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
- Supporting employees with training and development for the "Building Safety Regulator" framework.
- Fully supported by a team of technical administrators
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be an important part of a team of surveyors with responsibility for assessing Building Control applications on a wide variety of domestic and non-domestic building work and undertake site inspections.
You will be guided by our business plan and workflow processes and will document all activities which provide evidence of service delivery. Your outcomes and outputs will link into our plan and your focus will be on the importance of service delivery to our customers and to meet performance standards/targets for building control. You will be expected to work along and within a progressive team to contribute to the development and build process.
Key elements of Building/ Senior Surveyor role are to:
You will be expected to have a broad knowledge of allied legislation to the development and build process and undertake duties including plan checking, site inspections, enforcement, dangerous structures, and other building surveying duties when necessary.
You will be expected to embrace training opportunities which include competency validation and ultimately registration and maintaining registration with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
What we are looking for:
- You will have in-depth knowledge and understanding of Building Regulations, building technology, and technical training.
- Experienced with assessing plans and site inspections
- In-depth relevant building/construction experience with substantial knowledge of the housing and commercial sectors.
- An understanding of building pathology.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present information to internal/external audiences.
- Be of a proactive nature, a self-motivated approach, and a willingness to develop your role.
- Experienced in Building Control.
- A full Driving licence is required for this role.
Your future with us
At STG we offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you’re ambitious, driven, and hard-working you will succeed with us. We’ll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.
We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don’t promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please email your CV together with details of your salary requirements to janine.weaver@stgbc.org.uk
LABC Trainee Building Control Surveyors
LABC is currently recruiting over 100 trainee building control surveyors onto a 3-year training programme across England. The new trainees will be employed by LABC and seconded to local authorities to gain experience. Please see document below for further information.