Registered Building Inspector

Health and Safety Executive (HSE); Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading organization as a Registered Building Inspector, playing a vital role in ensuring compliance with building regulations across England. This position offers a competitive salary, flexible working options, and extensive benefits, including a Civil Service pension. You'll work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, providing expert advice and contributing to the transformation of building safety regulations. If you are a qualified professional with substantial experience in building control, this is an unmissable opportunity to influence safety outcomes for residents.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension

25 days annual holiday

Flexible working options

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in building control regulation.
• Ability to interpret technical and regulatory information.
• Professionally qualified building control professional.

Responsibilities

• Ensure building control decisions are technically robust.
• Provide specialist advice on Building Regulations.
• Review complex building control submissions.

Skills

Building Control Regulation

Technical Assurance

Regulatory Decision Making

Education

Full Member of RICS

CABE

CIOB

Job description

Registered Building Inspector
Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, London, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, or York (with hybrid working)

About Us

The Health and Safety Executive is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work.

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is transforming building safety regulations across England, ensuring that residents are safe and feel safe in their homes.

We are now looking for four Registered Building Inspectors to join us on a full-time, permanent basis. We can also accept part-time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

The Benefits
- Salary of £60,760 - £65,776 per annum (with additional £4,378 London Weighting allowance)
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days’ annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and - 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Family-friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer-friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- Access to a wide range of fantastic benefits, such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

This is an unmissable opportunity for a qualified and experienced building control professional to join our forward-thinking organisation.

You’ll have the chance to be part of a nationally significant programme that’s transforming how buildings are regulated across England, directly influencing safer outcomes for residents.

What’s more, with everything from Civil Service pension contributions and flexible working to extensive learning and development opportunities, we’ll support your success while recognising your expertise every step of the way.

The Role

As a Registered Building Inspector, you will play a vital role in ensuring that building control decisions across England are technically robust, proportionate, and consistent.

Working within the BSR, you will provide specialist advice to Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) on the interpretation and application of the Building Regulations 2010.

You will be responsible for reviewing and peer-reviewing complex building control submissions and offering technical guidance to caseworkers and regulatory leads.

In addition to providing clear and accessible advice, you’ll help identify procedural or technical shortcomings and advise on appropriate regulatory responses to improve safety standards and compliance.

Additionally, you will:

- Support the creation of validation templates, enforcement tools, and other resources
- Contribute to internal guidance and training for operational colleagues
- Represent the BSR in industry discussions and with standards-setting bodies
- Support evidence-based decision-making during validation discussions and regulatory panel meetings

About You

To be considered as a Registered Building Inspector, you will need:

- Substantial experience in building control regulation, including assessing compliance with building regulations and overseeing complex or higher risk building projects
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary environments and contributing technical assurance in decision making contexts
- The ability to interpret technical and regulatory information and apply it in support of proportionate enforcement or regulatory decision making
- To be a professionally qualified building control professional, with demonstrable competence to work on higher-risk buildings and registered as a Class 3 Category H Registered Building Inspector
- To be a full member of RICS, CABE, CIOB or equivalent

The closing date for this role is Monday 2nd June 2025.

Other organisations may call this role Building Control Specialist, Building Regulations Compliance Officer, Building Safety and Regulation Inspector, Building Safety Advisor, or Building Compliance and Enforcement Specialist.

Webrecruit and the Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to help shape the future of building safety regulations as a Registered Building Inspector, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.