Building Control Lead Team Manager

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: HC1 (£75,537 – £87,015)
Work location: Alexandra House, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time, 36 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing Date: Rolling Advert

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

As a Building Control Lead Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping safe, sustainable and high quality development across Haringey and beyond. You will lead a team of Building Control professionals, overseeing the full range of statutory and commercial building control services – from pre application advice and plan assessment to site inspections, enforcement, dangerous structures and safety at sports grounds.

You will act as a senior professional decision maker for the Council, exercising expert judgement on complex and high risk schemes, including those within scope of the Building Safety Regulator. Working closely with colleagues across Planning, Housing, Property, Highways, Schools and Emergency Planning, as well as external partners, you will help deliver new homes, major regeneration, safe events and improved outcomes for residents.

About the Team

Haringey’s Building Control team is nationally recognised, having been shortlisted as a finalist for the Local Authority Building Control Team of the Year at the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2024. The borough continues to be at the heart of exciting developments, set to become London Borough of Culture in 2027 as ‘the Rebel Borough’ and hosting the Euros European Football Championship in Tottenham in 2028. Based in Wood Green, opposite the Piccadilly Line tube station, the team thrives in a supportive, collaborative environment and embraces progressive working practices, including flexible and home-working.

About You

You will be an experienced and confident Building Control professional who brings both technical excellence and strong leadership. You will thrive in a fast paced, high profile environment, balancing commercial awareness with public protection responsibilities. You will be motivated by delivering high quality services, supporting your team to excel and contributing to a forward thinking, ambitious local authority.

You should have:
• Substantial technical experience in delivering and managing building control services, including work on complex and higher risk buildings within the scope of the Building Safety Regulator.
• Professional membership of RICS, CABE, CIOB, ABE or another relevant body.
• Registration with the Building Safety Regulator at Class 3, enabling you to work unsupervised on all relevant building categories.
• A relevant degree (e.g., Building Control, Building Surveying, Construction, Structural Engineering) or equivalent learning and experience.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience supervising staff, developing teams and managing performance.
• Expert knowledge of building regulations, associated legislation and the Building Safety Act, with the ability to make sound, autonomous professional decisions.
• Experience managing dangerous structures, Safety at Sports Grounds and emergency response, including out of hours duties.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are 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 of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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