Bellrock Group
Senior Building Regulations Principal Designer
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Role Overview
Bellrock Compliance is expanding its services and is seeking an enthusiastic professional to support a range of public and private sector projects, including new build, refurbishment, tall building remediation and maintenance schemes across NHS, university and data centre environments. The role involves site visits and reporting across London, the Home Counties and Southeast, working closely with clients, contractors and internal teams to deliver projects safely and compliantly. We are looking for a strong leader with a proactive ‘can-do’ approach, capable of undertaking the Building Safety Act Principal Designer role while maintaining high standards of compliance and building strong, collaborative client relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing expert advice on the Building Safety Act and Building Regulations.
- Having relevant knowledge and understanding of Building Safety Act 2022 and other relevant legislation, and being able to apply and implement those requirements at project level.
- Planning, managing and monitoring design work by conducting plan checks and reviewing designs for compliance with Building Regulations.
- Cooperating, coordinating and communicating with all duty holders to ensure the design work, if built, complies with building regulations.
- Preparing written reports (e.g., End of Design Stage Reports) and maintaining Building Regulations Trackers.
- Liaising with the principal contractor and sharing any information relevant to the planning, management and monitoring of the building work, and the coordination of the building and design work so that it complies with all relevant requirements.
- Reviewing and regarding all comments from the principal contractor.
- Assisting the client in providing information to other designers and contractors, if requested.
- Providing a document explaining the arrangement put in place to fulfil their duties no more than 28 days after the end of their appointment.
- Managing agreed fees, confirming invoicing, closing out appointments and supporting debtor control.
- Exploring potential cross-sell opportunities across the wider Bellrock teams.
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Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the construction industry with experience of Building Regulations, leading or reviewing designs.
- Excellent working knowledge and understanding of BSA 2022 and appropriate legislation.
- Strong understanding of the design and construction process, with hands-on experience in inspecting buildings and properties.
- Degree in a construction-related field (design-focused preferred).
- Membership of RICS, CABE, CIOB, ARB, RIBA is ideal.
- Full and clean driver’s license.
- Willingness to travel to varied sites across London, Home Counties, and the Southeast.
- Well motivated.
- Good communicator with interpersonal and organizational skills.
AI fluency & learning mindset
We are looking for people who actively use AI in their day-to-day work, demonstrate strong curiosity about new technologies, and take ownership for continuously improving how they think, work, and deliver.
Your core qualities and attributes
- Confident, clear, and articulate communicator with effective interpersonal skills with both clients, contractors, and colleagues in verbal and written format.
- Comfortable with working autonomously and managing your own workload effectively.
- Natural curiosity for problem solving.
- Relish the challenge of working with external stakeholders.
- Passion for developing yourself and others.
- Effective decision maker and an excellent team player.
- Desire ownership, accountability, and responsibility.
- Want to ‘make a difference’.
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Working arrangements
We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from 6-8 Greencoat Pl, London, SW1P 1PL and your home address on a hybrid basis, Monday to Friday, 08:30am-17:00pm.
What can we offer you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you
- Salary exchange pension scheme
- Life cover
- Paid sick leave
- Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
- Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
- Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
- Healthcare Cashplan
- MotorSave Scheme
- Refer a friend
- Liftshare
- Virtual GP
Why Bellrock?
At Bellrock, our people make the difference.
We support organisations across the UK with property, facilities management, compliance, engineering and technology services, helping our customers create safer, smarter and more sustainable environments.
We're committed to creating a workplace where people feel supported, respected and able to develop their careers. If you're looking for a business where your contribution is valued and where you can continue to learn and grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Inclusion
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to providing a fair and accessible recruitment process for everyone.
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