Senior Building Control Technician - Internal Applicants Only

What will you be doing?

What will you be doing?

You will provide accurate and timely technical and administrative support, including data processing, application validation, certificate preparation, and customer liaison. 

You’ll coordinate incoming queries, notifications, and fee quotation requests in line with service targets. 

You will have the opportunity to contribute to service improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and productivity and undertake special projects and research as required.

About you

You will be experienced in a construction-related administrative role, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge.

You will have experience working in a busy office environment acting as the first point of contact.

You’ll have excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong IT skills, including proficiency in MS Office, MS Teams, and Microsoft 365.

You will be able to read and interpret technical drawings and construction-related documentation.

Your high attention to detail with an analytical and methodical approach will be essential to the role.

You will be able and willing to travel across the county, including at short notice.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.  

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community 

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)