This role is responsible for the leadership and management of the building control function linked to the decision-making process and the management and oversight of enforcement.
Client Details
Manchester City Council is the local government authority for the City of Manchester in England. It is responsible for providing a wide range of services to residents, including education, housing, social services, transportation, and waste management. The council operates under a leader and cabinet model, with elected representatives from various wards in the city. It aims to improve the quality of life for Manchester's citizens through sustainable development, economic growth, and community engagement initiatives.
Description
This role sits in the Planning, Building Control and Licensing Service. The service contributes to the delivery of key objectives for the city, ensuring new development essential to providing new homes and new jobs, and the wider environment are safe, inclusive, responds to the climate change agenda and are of the highest quality.
The roles provide Specialist technical leadership to deliver the Building Control function of the service, leading in the decision-making process and being responsible for making decisions in relation to innovative, complex and sensitive technical and legislative issues in order to deliver the key objectives of the City Council.
The role will include highly specialist responsibility for Fire Safety and Safe at Sports Grounds; liaising with and representing the Council at major SAG meetings and undertaking any duties relevant to ensuring the safety of the public.
The role holder will lead the development of guidance in this specialist area to ensure the delivery of quality and appropriate development working closely with other senior managers, particularly in relation to the new Building and Fire Safety regime. This will also include taking responsibility, together with other service leads to develop systems for the effective reporting and monitoring of activity to the new regulator.
Profile
- Communication: Ability to build and maintain strong networks of support internally and externally and to forge effective partnerships with key stakeholders to deliver the vision for the City and to negotiate, persuade and influence, in difficult and sensitive situations on complex matters.
- Analytical Skills: Significant ability to identify and assess risk in the decision-making process and to apply strong analytical reasoning, creative solutions, and non-standard approaches to resolve issues. Has a highly developed ability to read plans accurately and cascade information; interpret highly complex material etc.
- Performance Management: Well developed ability to bring about and effectively manage change to improve service delivery and the performance of self and team members.
- Planning and Organising: Ability to manage a range of functions and manage multiple priorities with confidence. Has highly developed judgement skills and is able to ensure the work of the team perform effectively to competing deadlines. Can identify and manage resources to undertake tasks required to fulfil the role of the team and deliver quality outcomes.
- Financial Skills: Ability and experience of financial management; ability to monitor expenditure.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Demonstrable ability to make decisions on complex and highly technical matters. To interpret, analyse and assess, independently a range of options to resolve highly complex issues. To continually perform at a high level of achievement and an ability to react quickly and positively to problems with high risk factors and under significant pressure.
- Creative Skills: Ability to think creatively and develop solutions that meet both the strategic and specific needs of the service.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to think and act cross-functionally and cross-organisationally, beyond one's own professional area of specialism, perceiving the wider picture and the implications of short-term decisions for the achievement of long-term strategic goals.
- Possession of a recognised qualification and be registered under the Competency Scheme Level 4.
- Detailed and extensive knowledge of the Building Control legislative framework and a comprehensive understanding of associated legislation and Council policy that it interfaces with.
- Substantial and relevant post qualification experience in Building Control work of a local authority.
Job Offer
This role is responsible for the management of the building control function linked to the decision-making process and the management and oversight of enforcement.
This role involves managing and monitoring the budget for the building control team. This includes fee setting and ensuring this is in the context of financial regulations. Responsibility will also include supporting the assistant Director in promoting the Building Control Service and ensuring LABC remain competitive whilst providing a highly effective and quality service.
The role holder will work corporately and with other organisations towards the goal of delivering safe, inclusive, and quality developments in the city. In addition, the role holder will ensure service delivery and outcomes are in accordance with policies and processes integral to associated initiatives.