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Permanent | Full time

Our city is growing and transforming. Increasingly, Upper Hutt has become a lifestyle choice for people wanting a higher quality of life – living, working and recreation closer to home and family. Upper Hutt is rich in the natural environment and education opportunities, and businesses are choosing to invest in our city.

Unsurprisingly, the built form of our city is changing too. We are looking for enthusiastic people to join the Upper Hutt City Council Building Team and be part of our influencing our city transformation.

We are recruiting for an exciting opportunity and are seeking a qualified and experienced processing officer to join the Building Control Leadership Team as the Team Leader Building Control - Processing.

Are you seeking a new challenge where you can learn and grow, achieve better work-life balance, and be part of an open and positive team culture? Are you interested in contributing to something meaningful and having your work recognised? Do you want to join a talented team that works hard and has fun? Are you excited about going to work each day and seeing what it brings?

Then you may just be one of the team members we are looking for.

With strong commercial investment in the city, a rising housing market and continued growth, Upper Hutt City Building Team is seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated individual to join our expanding Building Control Services team. We are committed to customer service and need someone who can assist our customers in facilitating development in Upper Hutt while ensuring that building projects comply with legislative requirements and standards.

The Team Leader Building Control - Processing (TLBCP) will play an important role in working with the Building Control Services Manager to ensure building consent processing and related works are undertaken efficiently, and to a high standard whilst appropriately managing risk. The TLBCP will manage a caseload of building consent applications, including more complex applications, manage and allocate workloads and provide leadership and oversight of the day-to-day activities of the building control processing team.

You will be responsible for maintaining accurate records and information databases in support of the Council’s continued status as an accredited Building Control Authority. Cumulatively your work alongside the wider team will help to transform our city.

Ideally you will have:
An advanced level of knowledge of the Building Act, Building Code and other relevant legislation as it relates to the building industry.

An appropriate qualification in building or a design related field that will be recognised by Regulation 18 of the Building (Accreditation of Building Consent Authorities) Regulations 2006

OR

A relevant technical and/or trade qualification and be willing to work towards a Regulation 18 qualification;

5+ years relevant experience in building control.

Holds residential and commercial processing competencies.

An ability to confidently and clearly communicate technical issues and concepts;

Excellent customer service focus, including good listening skills;

Competent in MS suite of products, general computer use and the ability to adapt to new computer programs easily. The ability to use Go Get is an advantage;

Good administration and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads to meet statutory deadlines;

A current driver’s licence.

If you have building industry experience, are positive, committed and highly technically competent in all that you do, and you want to step up to a role that is both busy and rewarding, then you won’t get much better than our city and our team.

As the Team Leader Building Control - Processing, you will experience a full and varied workload in a supportive and dynamic working environment.

What are you waiting for? Give Leyla Paine - Building Control Services Manager a call on 04 5272 169 – we’d love to share our plans and our passion.

Applications close Sunday 6 October 2024. We reserve the right to interview and select a candidate prior to the closing date.

All applications must include a cover letter, CV and a completed online Upper Hutt City Council application form. To apply for this role please apply online: www.upperhuttcity.com/careers .

PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO WORK IN NEW ZEALAND TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE .