Senior Building Standards Surveyor - Waverley Court

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the City of Edinburgh Council as a Senior Building Standards Surveyor, where you'll play a crucial part in developing Edinburgh's building infrastructure. This dynamic role involves processing building warrants, inspecting sites, and mentoring young surveyors, all while working in a collaborative and hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with processing complex building warrants.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to manage a diverse caseload.

Responsibilities

• Process complex building warrants and inspect buildings.
• Support team managers and mentor junior staff.
• Deliver improvement projects to enhance service quality.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

IT skills

Customer care

Education

Relevant experience in Building Standards

Job description

We have 3 positions available.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the role of Senior Building Standards Surveyor working within a diverse and professional department.

Edinburgh is a dynamic and growing city, and the Building Standards Team has a key role in the continued development of our capital city by processing around 5000 building warrants a year. We aim to provide a seamless development consent process with close collaboration between professionals in different service areas. You can be part of this exciting journey, helping to facilitate these opportunities whilst ensuring construction works within the city are designed and built to meet safety standards, further sustainable development and ensure the safety of people in and around buildings.

You would be responsible for processing complex building warrants, supporting team managers in their activities and inspecting dangerous/defective buildings. Further, you would play a key role in developing Surveyors, Assistant Surveyors and Graduate Apprentice Surveyors whilst playing an integral part in delivering improvement projects for the service to maintain high levels of performance and customer satisfaction.

You will have the ability to work as part of a team or on your own initiative to manage a diverse caseload. You will have good communication, IT and organisational skills and be committed to a high standard of customer care. With these requirements and responsibilities, comes a range of the most interesting Building Standards surveying work in Scotland.

We are working in a hybrid way at this time which will encompass aspects of home, office and site working. Our modern open-plan offices are in Edinburgh City Centre, 5 minutes' walk from Waverley Station.

If you are interested, you should bring relevant experience, a strong sense of customer service, excellent communication skills, a clear understanding of quality assurance and an appetite for project delivery and continuous improvement.

If successful, two references will be required.

If you wish to discuss an aspects of the role or have any questions prior to applying, please contact Gary Gilruth - 07885 477 546.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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