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Building Inspector (Role 2)

NHBC

London

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GBP 40,000 - 44,000

Full time

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Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Building Inspector, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring new homes meet high standards. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with builders, fostering relationships while conducting vital inspections. With a focus on quality and customer satisfaction, you'll enjoy a supportive environment that values work-life balance. The role provides full training, autonomy in your daily tasks, and a range of benefits including generous leave and a performance bonus. Elevate your career in a dynamic and inclusive workplace committed to excellence in construction.

Benefits

27 days annual leave + bank holidays
Holiday purchase scheme
Enhanced pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
Life assurance
Subsidised private medical insurance
Employee discounts platform
Two days volunteer leave
Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay

Qualifications

  • Experience in house-building or construction is essential.
  • Ability to build rapport and manage relationships effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Inspect new homes to ensure they meet NHBC standards and regulations.
  • Build relationships with site managers to prevent construction defects.

Skills

House-building experience
Relationship building
Analytical skills
Customer satisfaction focus

Education

Construction related qualification (City and Guilds, HNC, HND, NVQ)

Job description

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Salary: £40,600 – £43,700 (depending on experience) + 6% performance bonus

Working location: West London area, Field Based

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Job Summary

As a Building Inspector, you will be a key member of our inspection service team, collaborating with registered builders to ensure homes not only meet NHBC Standards and Building Regulations but also thrive under your expert guidance.

Elevate your career by fostering exceptional customer relationships, championing NHBC's value, and making a lasting impact on the construction landscape.

What You’ll Be Doing

Based from home but out and about every day, you’ll be working with our registered builders to ensure that the new homes they are building meet the NHBC Standards, Building Regulations and other relevant legislation. You will have the opportunity to build excellent working relationships with the site managers on your patch, working with them to identify and prevent construction defects. It’s an important job, helping us to manage our insurance risk and to create the very best homes for new home buyers.

You can expect full training and the ongoing support of your line manager and wider team. You’ll have control of your own diary and the autonomy to do the job as you think best. Your working day will start when you leave home (not when you arrive at your first call) and we won’t ask you to work weekends because we believe a good work/life balance is essential.

What We Are Looking For

  • Significant and relevant house-building or construction experience
  • Ability to listen, build rapport, establish credibility and build effective working relationships.
  • influence, and deal with potential disagreements in an assertive manner that maintain relationships.
  • the ability to gather and analyse information to support decision making
  • Able to describe the house building process and how the trades interact with each other.
  • This is a physically demanding role requiring visits to construction sites and inspection of buildings throughout the whole of the build process. Including working frequently at height
  • A keen interest in learning and keeping up to date with industry related improvements, building standards and developments.
  • Focus on customer satisfaction and delivering a quality service to agreed standards

Education And Qualifications

  • It would be great if you have or are working towards a construction related qualification such as City and Guilds, HNC, HND or NVQ (or equivalent)
  • A full Driving licence is required for this role

NHBC Building Safety Regulator Framework

NHBC have a dedicated professional team to support any technical staff who require to register with the Building Safety Regulator as a Registered Building Inspector. This includes the necessary training and development to undertake third-party accredited assessment schemes that evidence each individual’s technical competency. NHBC will provide the financial funding for completion of the assessment schemes as well as registration with the Building Safety Regulator

What We Offer

Our benefits package includes:

  • 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • holiday purchase scheme
  • enhanced pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
  • life assurance
  • subsidised private medical insurance
  • employee discounts platform
  • two days volunteer leave
  • enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
  • many more!

Who We Are

At NHBC, we pride ourselves on being truly unique. No other organisation in our sector matches the range of services and scale we provide. As the market leader, we are recognised as the go-to for new home warranties and insurance. Our team is united by a core purpose: to raise the standards of house building and protect homeowners.

Why you should join us

As a modern, family-friendly employer, we’re in a phase of rapid growth, embracing technology, data and new ways of working. We’re seeking passionate, skilled and driven individuals to join us on this exciting journey.

Once onboard, you’ll have access to fantastic opportunities for personal and career growth. You’ll receive thorough training, continuous development and the chance to earn recognised qualifications and professional memberships to support your journey.

We support flexible working and encourage our colleagues to find a balance that suits them. While we may not be able to accommodate every request, we’re always happy to have a conversation about flexible working arrangements.

Our inclusive culture

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We firmly believe in the right of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and free from discrimination. Our active employee networks support colleagues and their allies, providing safe spaces for open conversations and idea-sharing.

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