Building Control Area Team Leader

Building Control Area Team Leader

Our Building Control team is proud to be dynamic, progressive, and deeply committed to delivering safe, high-quality development across our borough. Now, we’re looking for an experienced leader who wants to play a key role in our continued success. As the Area Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in managing service delivery, supporting colleagues, and handling a range of complex and high‑profile building control matters. You will act as a key point of technical expertise, contribute to strategic decision‑making, and ensure compliance, safety, and excellent customer service across your area.

About you:

You are a highly experienced Building Control professional with the confidence and technical expertise to support the Building Control Manager in delivering key service objectives, priorities, and continuous improvement across the service.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable managing a diverse caseload, including complex, high-risk, and high-profile applications. With strong leadership and organisational skills, you can oversee day-to-day operational performance, ensuring high standards of service delivery and professional practice.

A supportive and collaborative leader, you are passionate about developing others, providing mentoring, guidance, and technical advice to colleagues while fostering a culture of learning and excellence across the team.

You have significant experience in enforcement and investigative work and are confident in making sound, evidence-based decisions. You are also prepared to respond to dangerous structures and emergency situations, helping to protect public safety and maintain confidence in the service.

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are essential. You will work proactively with developers, agents, architects, contractors, stakeholders, and local communities to achieve positive outcomes and deliver high-quality development across the area.

Strategic in your thinking, you enjoy contributing to policy development, service planning, and decision-making, helping to shape the future direction of Building Control and drive continual service improvement.

The successful candidate will be:

• An experienced Building Control professional with at least 5 years’ experience

• Registered as Class 2F-3H with the Building Safety Regulator

• A chartered member of a recognised professional body (e.g. CABE, CIOB)

• Technically strong with excellent knowledge of relevant legislation

• Proactive, flexible, and skilled in managing and motivating people

• Committed to delivering high standards and making a positive community impact

To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the attached job description specification document.

In return we are able to offer:

• A competitive salary – Up to £70,849 per annum, including market supplement with guaranteed yearly pay increases!

• Enhanced annual leave - Start with an impressive 34 days of annual leave (including bank holidays) from day one, and watch it grow to 39 days after just five years of service

• Purchase of annual leave – Want more time off? You can purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year, giving you the flexibility to balance work and life just the way you want (Pro-rata for part-time staff)

• Flexible working pattern - Enjoy a 37-hour standard full-time work week with the added perks of flexitime.

• Salary sacrifice green car scheme - Drive green and save green! Lease a brand-new electric or hybrid car through our salary sacrifice scheme. There’s no credit checks, no deposits, just significant savings and exclusive offers on a three-year lease

• White goods salary sacrifice scheme - Upgrade your home with ease. Purchase home and electronic items through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost of big-ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets directly from your salary

• Enhanced public pension - Secure your future with our career average pension, where contributions are built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay

• Cycle to work scheme - Save up to 25-39% on the retail price of bikes and safety equipment through Income Tax and National Insurance savings. Get fit and save money!

• Employee assistance programme - Access a completely free and confidential assistance service to help manage, reduce, and overcome life’s challenges, both at work and in your personal life

• Discounted gym membership - Stay active and healthy with corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure, including:

• Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities

• Off-Peak Racket Sports

• Athletics Tracks

• Sauna/Steam/Spa

How to apply:

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

We are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however, please do not be discouraged from applying again.

For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk, should you wish to discuss the role further please contact Heidi Wilson on 07814 737102 or email heidi.wilson@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.

Attachments

• Area Team Leader Job Description and Specification (1).pdf