Rochford District Council - Senior Building Control Officer

Job title: Senior Building Control Surveyor

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Salary: £42,839 - £46,142 (PO6 – PO9) plus market supplement of £8000 per annum (market supplement to be reviewed after 12 months)

Location: Rochford/Launchpad

Department: Building Control

Closing date: 27th August 2026

Benefits:

• A friendly, customer focused and supportive team.
• Opportunities for flexible and agile working, we offer a hybrid model of working to promote flexible working around personal and family commitments
• Generous annual leave
• One professional membership payment.
• Payment of ongoing BSR registration fees.
• Enrolment onto the LABC MyCPD system.
• Regular opportunities for development with internal and external training courses for ongoing CPD.
• Local government pension scheme
• Staff discounts

Our culture and values:

We like our staff to be proactive and innovative.

Being customer focused and willing to maximise your potential at work are expected.

We all work together to achieve the very best for our residents which sometimes means getting involved in projects and trying new tasks outside of your day to day job role.

We love our staff to suggest new ideas and to have enthusiasm to try out new experiences.

About the role:

Please note - You must be a registered building inspector with the Building Safety Regulator, minimum class 2 or 3 to apply.

Would you like to become an integral part of our successful Building Control team. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, qualified Building Control professional to join our supportive, modern, customer focused team, to ensure buildings are compliant and residents and visitors of the Borough for safe.

You’ll join our proactive customer focused Building Control team which has been involved in some exciting developments recently and also has a number of exciting projects to get involved with, including housing developments and commercial projects across the borough.

You will experience plenty of variety as you manage and progress a broad range of building control projects to effective completion. In addition, you will help to grow our business by establishing and strengthening working relationships with architects, developers as well as other existing or potential clients.

About you:

We are looking for a team member who has a degree in Building Surveying or equivalent construction discipline and has corporate full membership of either MRICS, MCABE or MCIOB and must be registered at either Class 2 or 3 with the Building Safety Regulator. You must self-motivated, be able to work on own initiative and have broad experience in Building Control legislation and enforcement processes. You must have proven excellent verbal and written communication skills.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rob Sadler, Building Control Manager on or email

• Full current Driving Licence/Driver and vehicle owner or have access to driver and vehicle.
• Able to read and interpret scaled maps and plans.
• Willing to adopt a flexible approach to working arrangements when required.
• A degree in Building Surveying or equivalent construction discipline and corporate full membership of either MRICS, MCABE or MCIOB and must be registered at either Class 2 or 3 with the Building Safety Regulator.
• Good verbal communication skills both on the telephone and face to face and ability to work to critical deadlines and work effectively.
• Able to travel to occasional meetings/events at distant locations.

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