Building Control Surveyor WCC

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience. Plus Market Supplement of £6,000.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP

Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 30 March 2026

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION

Growth, Planning & Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places.

Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making.

The future is safe in her hands.

As a Building Control Surveyor you can make your own powerful contribution to the quality of our diverse residential and commercial built environment. In Westminster, we have the highest proportion of properties subject to the new Building Safety Bill in the country. The spotlight is on us as a local authority, offering real challenge and the chance to build career-defining experience.

Joining a team of expert professionals, including in-house Fire Engineers and Building Regulations Engineers, you’ll have every opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge on a range of high-profile projects. Providing technical advice and guidance on building control issues to colleagues, partner agencies and the wider public, you’ll also process complex applications under building regulations and carry out a range of inspections.

We’ll have high expectations of your professionalism but will also provide excellent support.

With significant experience in building control (fire and structures) you’ll have a comprehensive knowledge of the building regulations, including those which relate to large and complex projects. Holding full professional membership of RICS, CABE, ICE, IStruct

E, CIOB or a similar approved organisation, you’ll be used to negotiating with design teams and major stakeholders to achieve compliance. You must be licenced with the BSR at Class 2A-2F. You’ll communicate clearly and be ready to solve a range of problems. The ability to work under pressure to deliver results is essential.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future.

By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

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As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.