North Northamptonshire Council
Senior Building Control Technician (Building Safety Levy)- SAP - Internal Applicants Only
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About The Role
Behind every successful building control service is a strong support team.
Join us and be part of our future!
You’ll deliver high-quality, efficient, and responsive administrative and technical support to the Building Control team, ensuring the needs of internal and external customers are met.
The role supports the Council’s statutory duties under the Building Regulations 2010, Building Act 1984, and associated legislation, while contributing to a professional, customer-focused Local Authority Building Control (LABC) service that seeks to grow market share and maximise income.
What will you be doing?
- Provide accurate and timely technical and administrative support, including data processing, application validation, certificate preparation, and customer liaison.
- Coordinate incoming queries, notifications, and fee quotation requests in line with service targets.
- Contribute to service improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and productivity and undertake special projects and research as required.
About You
- Experienced in a construction-related administrative role, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge.
- Experience working in a busy office environment acting as the first point of contact.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong IT skills, including proficiency in MS Office, MS Teams, and Microsoft 365.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and construction-related documentation.
- High attention to detail with an analytical and methodical approach.
- Ability and willingness to travel across the county, including at short notice.
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Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
- A competitive salary.
- A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- Lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge, and potential in a large unitary council.
- Generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs, to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About Us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues, And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
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- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay, and succeed in employment. For further information please click here: The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at: Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
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