Building Standards Inspector - ARB15121

Are you an experienced site manager or have construction site experience assessing developments against approved warrant drawings and standards and want a change of career? An excellent and unique opportunity to join the Councils Building Standards service as a Building Standards Inspector. There is a national drive to strengthen building standards regulation and to meet this commitment, the Council have created a new post of Building Standards Inspector, Working with Building Standards Surveyors, the role will provide a range of support services, including the inspection of building works at various stages in construction to assess compliance against the technical standards; responding to an investigation of dangerous building complaints, applying standards, and liaison with agents, contractors and stakeholders.

Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

This is a permanent post, based in Lochgilphead, and will involve carrying out site inspections across the area from Campbeltown to Oban, including the islands. Local government and flexible working conditions apply, together with a salary of £31,990-34,764. Argyll and Bute Council recognises the numerous benefits of a positive work-life balance to the wellbeing and productivity of our employees. We will take a flexible first approach to requests from our employees to change the way that they work. While we must balance such requests with the need to ensure the quality of the important services we deliver is not compromised, we will ensure that each request is given careful consideration with a view to achieving a positive outcome wherever possibleApplicants should note that:-

• Happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.
• This is a temporary post which may be filled on a secondment basis by an employee wishing to gain experience/career development and will be at the discretion of the employee's director.