We are looking for a Principal Building Control Specialist to lead a team of building control professionals, helping to create a safer future for residents of buildings across the built environment.

You will provide expert technical building control knowledge to your team who will be supporting the auditors and investigators, to ensure that all regulatory decisions made are sound and supported by high-quality knowledge and understanding of the building control profession.

Through Leadership, oversight and line management you will have a high profile impact, helping to create new regulations from the ground up. You will be responsible for the effective deployment and management of resources within and across regions related to building control expertise. As the Principal Building Control Specialist you will represent the Regulation of the Building Control Profession unit internally and externally as required at relevant meetings, committees and panels.

Your work as a regulator will make the most of your experience in occupational health – identifying risks, providing the right advice and crucially – taking steps to ensure the employer takes the necessary action. You could be inspecting the management of health risks in an engineering firm, investigating a report of occupational disease in a bakery, taking enforcement action when required. Your work will take you across the range of industries from construction, manufacturing and engineering, to agriculture, waste and recycling or the public sector.

This role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can and you will be fully supported by your colleagues including the widest range of health and safety experts in Britain.

Together, you’ll be helping to protect thousands of people, whether that be from our offices or out on site.

Further information about the role can be found in the attached candidate pack.

You will be office-based but as part of your role, you will be required to inspect and visit sites across Great Britain. This will require regular travel and overnight stays.

Key Responsibilities
• Leading and/or supporting investigation of work related ill-health concerns and reportable diseases to identify the cause and where necessary, take appropriate enforcement action to control the risks
• Inspecting a variety of workplaces, either on your own or supporting another inspector to make sure health risks are managed safely, driving improvements and taking enforcement action where required to secure compliance with the law
• Advising other HSE colleagues about OH and how conditions compare with minimum legal requirements and good practice
• Providing specialist support to guide enforcement decisions and specialist opinion in reports
• Contributing to policy work and guidance in relevant priority areas by sharing information and advice with policy colleagues
• Contributing as a member of the occupational health team to promote occupational health at relevant UK forums as well internally, for example, coaching trainee H&S inspectors, and
• You will be expected to appear as specialist / expert witness at tribunals, inquests and legal proceedings.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) safe and enable people to feel safe in their homes. Working with residents and industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSR will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

Your role is vitally important to the effectiveness of the BSR in ensuring the safety of residents in communities by managing cases effectively through coordination of internal and external partners and ensuring all stages within the process are followed. You will support Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) Leads within the High Risk Building (HRB) functions: Building Control and In-Occupation.

The Building Control function is about ensuring HRBs are designed and built to approved standards.

The In-Occupation function includes delivery of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) applications to ensure occupied HRBs are being managed to protect residents safety.

As part of the Operational Delivery Team, you will work with MDT leads to bring together and support our regulatory partners including building, structural, and fire safety specialists to ensure cases are progressed efficiently and effectively.This will include assisting at site visits, interacting with those responsible for the HRBs and their residents to collect relevant material to support regulatory decision making.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for helping to shape a new culture of building safety in your community today and for the future. In return we can offer you training tailored to your needs as well as civil service learning and development programmes to support your career in HSE and the wider Civil Service. This role will develop as the BSR grows and therefore flexibility to move within the role is expected.

This role will also include some travel therefore flexibility to travel when needed for on site visits is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This role will be at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), leading on the creation and implementation of the operational quality management, assurance, governance and risk management frameworks.

You will report directly to the Head of Operational Excellence and be instrumental in establishing the Risk Management and Quality Management Frameworks alongside BSR’s policy and operational leaders.

Your direct reports will consist of a team of Risk Management Analysts and Compliance and Quality Analysts.

The overarching Governance framework and how it is managed would also fall within the remit of this position.  You will have access to a range of development opportunities including career pathways, developing others through coaching and mentoring other members of the team, as well as Civil Service learning and development programmes.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This role will sit at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), providing operational insight and performance management through analysis, synthesis, review and reporting of data across multiple operational work streams. This includes qualitative and quantitative analysis and management of current and future demand profiles and resource forecasts in addition to the creation of Management Information reporting for internal and external stakeholders.

You will report to the Operational Performance Management Lead and support the creation and embedding of an operational performance management framework across multiple operations in BSR.

You will also collaborate across operational and policy teams in order to improve the delivery and consistency of operational performance reporting.

This is a new role and you will be expected to proactively contribute towards establishing the operational performance management framework, as well as setting up new processes and ways of working for BSR. From year three it is anticipated that the framework will be fully established and embedded and therefore the your focus will be more heavily based within analysis and recommendations.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here