Building Advisor

Taituarā — Local Government Professionals Aotearoa; Selwyn; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Building Advisor in Selwyn, where you'll interact with residents and support the building team. This role is essential for maintaining high service standards, requiring strong administrative skills and customer service focus. Benefit from training and a supportive work environment, with a range of perks enhancing work-life balance.

Benefits

Great work-life balance with flexibility

Career coaching and development

Life insurance

Wellbeing and volunteer leave

Paid leave between Christmas and New Year

Partners Leave

Sick leave from day one

KiwiSaver contributions during savings suspension

Discounts with local and national businesses

Qualifications

• Several years' experience in administration and customer service.
• Familiarity with the Building Act is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first point of contact for residents.
• Manage inspections, bookings, and documentation.
• Respond to queries from internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Attention to detail

Digital literacy

Proactivity

Adaptability

Education

Administrative experience

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Building Advisor

Join our Building Advisory Team for Selwyn District

About The Role

The Building Advisor is the first point of contact for the Selwyn District residents with the building team; customer focus and positive interactions are key to success in the role. The role is varied in nature and pivotal to the internal function of the building team. Day to day life will see you working on multiple tasks including, but not limited to:

• PIMs,
• Inspections bookings,
• Loading and vetting of consents,
• Issuing of documentation
• Responding to internal and external queries
  
  

About You

You will be a customer service-focused team player who is comfortable contributing and working collaboratively. As a skilled administrator you will have several years' experience, with previous administrative knowledge of the Building Act being advantageous. Detail orientated and process driven you can use your initiative and enjoy making improvements. Full training will be provided.

You Will Also Have

• High level of digital literacy
• Articulate communication skills both verbally and written
• Attention to detail
• Proactive
• Adaptable
  
  

What We Can Offer

• Great work-life balance with flexibility
• Career coaching and development
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• Three days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Two weeks paid Partners Leave
• Sick leave from day one
• Continued KiwiSaver contributions during savings suspension
• Discounts with local and national businesses
  
  

About Us

Selwyn is one of the fastest-growing districts in New Zealand. We have a fantastic quality of life, great communities, and a thriving economy. Our Council works actively with residents to provide the services and facilities that help our communities to thrive and grow.

Our head office is based in Rolleston (only 25km from Christchurch), which offers an enviable family lifestyle, outstanding local facilities and an easy drive to the ski fields, rivers and hills that make up Canterbury's stunning landscape.

Our values are important to us and represent the way we work:

• Be a good human
• Be brave - Think differently
• Better together- Make it happen for Selwyn.
  
  

We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

If you'd like to play a part in making Selwyn the best place to live, work and play, join us today

To apply for this job go to: https://sdcjobs.co.nz/Vacancies & enter ref code: 6767129.

Applications close 15 June 2025

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Job no: 6767129

Location: Selwyn

Closing Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025

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