About the role
After a successful five years of getting landlords to remediate high rise blocks with unsafe cladding, JIT, the national fire safety Joint Inspection Team, is recruiting.
This is a unique opportunity to be at the cutting edge of making buildings safe, and working with key regulators.
The JIT is a multi disciplinary team currently compromised of a fire engineer, a building controller, Environmental Health professionals (we use Housing Act 2004 legislation to do HHSRS risk assessments of the fire safety in blocks), an intelligence officer, and legal advisors.
Most of the team’s work involves site inspections (up to two days), preparation ahead of the inspection, and follow up work, including drafting reports and helping councils to enforce using Housing Act 2004. The team also delivers training courses to local authority staff to help them undertake their own enforcement. The team is based in London, but you will be required to travel across the country to carry out site inspections, and to advise local authorities. There are opportunities for home working: currently for up to three days a week. All hotels and travel to site inspections is paid for by the LGA. The JIT team is funded by Central Government, but is independent in all professional judgements - our clients are local authorities.
About you
We need a building controller with experience of high-rise residential buildings and of the methods sometimes used by developers/ landlords to avoid having appropriate fire safety standards. You won’t need experience of Housing Act 2004, but you will need to feed into HHSRS risk assessments along with colleagues from different disciplines in the team. You will need to be able to help train others, and be a good team player.
You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.
To apply
If you would like to be considered for this role, please complete the online form and include a supporting statement, (maximum 1,000 words), detailing how you meet the criteria for the role before the closing date.
We are shortlisting candidates against the following criteria:
- Experience and knowledge of working in building control on high-rise buildings
- Knowledge of developments in the fire regulatory system
- Your surveyor qualifications
- Your ability to work as part of a team, and with staff from other bodies
- Your ability to work under pressure
- Your commitment to inclusiveness and the highest professional standards of conduct
Closing Date: 5pm, 26 June 2024
Interview Date: 2 July 2024
At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit. The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”. If you are require an reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have. Please contact us via Recruitment@local.gov.uk