Team Leader - Residential Inspections

Selwyn District Council; Rolleston; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Wellbeing leave

Volunteer leave

Job summary

Selwyn District Council in Rolleston, NZ is seeking a Team Leader Residential Inspections to lead our Building Surveyors and manage residential inspection workflows.

You will ensure compliance with the Building Act and NZ Building Code, while coaching your team, coordinating workloads, and driving continuous improvement across quality systems. This role requires strong leadership and customer-focused service delivery.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in people management.
• 5+ years in a BCA inspecting/processing environment.
• Understanding of the Building Act and Building Regulations; NZ Building Code.
• Ability to communicate complex building information to customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Building Surveyors.
• Manage residential inspection and certification workflows for efficient service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, accreditation standards, and business KPIs.
• Provide technical leadership and specialist advice on residential building matters.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
• Build strong relationships with customers, industry stakeholders, MBIE, and IANZ.
• Manage customer enquiries, complaints, and complex technical issues.
• Drive continuous improvement across policies, processes, and quality systems.
• Conduct quality and technical audits to support compliance and best practice.
• Support emergency building safety assessments when required.

Skills

People management

BCA inspections

Digital literacy

Building Act knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

See more about the role below, including the responsibilities and skills we are looking for.

Team Leader - Residential Inspections

Rolleston, New Zealand

Reference: 6935660

Are you an experienced Building Inspector ready to take the next step in your career? We're looking for a Team Leader Residential Inspections to lead our Residential Building team and play a key role in delivering exceptional building services to our community.

This is an exciting leadership opportunity where you'll combine your technical building expertise with people leadership, team development, customer engagement, and operational excellence.

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
• Discounts with local and national businesses

About the role

As Team Leader Residential Inspections, you will lead a team of Building Surveyors responsible for residential inspections. You'll ensure statutory obligations, accreditation requirements, and customer expectations are consistently met while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

Working closely with other Building Team Leaders and the Building Operations Manager, you'll coordinate workloads, provide technical guidance, support continuous improvement initiatives, and help shape the future capability of the team.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Building Surveyors.
• Managing residential inspection and certification workflows to ensure efficient service delivery.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, accreditation standards, and business KPIs.
• Providing technical leadership and specialist advice on residential building matters.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
• Building strong relationships with customers, industry stakeholders, MBIE, and IANZ.
• Managing customer enquiries, complaints, and complex technical issues.
• Driving continuous improvement across policies, processes, and quality systems.
• Conducting quality and technical audits to support compliance and best practice.
• Supporting emergency building safety assessments when required.

About you

This role is ideal for someone with a proven track record in leading others, solving problems, and driving continuous improvement. While technical expertise is valuable, your strength in people leadership is what matters most.

You bring a strategic mindset, strong communication skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality services.

• Experience (2+ years) in people management
• Understanding of the Building Act, the Building Consent process, Building Regulations, the New Zealand Building Code, and the ability to convey this to customers
• Willingness to confidently make appropriate decisions and take responsibility for them. Awareness of limitations of knowledge, and willingness to seek appropriate assistance when necessary
• Strong understanding of digital ways of working, with experience of using technology to achieve effective outcomes and driving organisational innovation and change, high level of digital literacy
• Experience (5+ years) in a BCA inspecting and/or processing environment
• Experience working in a local/central government environment

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

Selwyn is the best place to live, work and play.

This Is Selwyn

Our values are important to all of us and represent the way we work. They underpin our friendly and innovative culture.