Building Maintenance and Projects Lead

East Suffolk Council; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work, delivering essential local services and making a real difference to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.

We currently have an opportunity to join the Property & Place Team as Building Maintenance & Projects Lead. The successful candidate will be an experienced and qualified building surveyor looking for a leadership role. They will have the skills and knowledge to manage a team of professionals and deliver high-quality building projects and services for a diverse range of properties.

Your role

As the Building Maintenance and Projects Lead, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of up to 4 staff and external consultants, providing a comprehensive and professional building surveying design, inspection, contract administration, and project management service to internal and external stakeholders.

You will also provide strategic direction and leadership to the team and act as the technical expert in building pathology, defect diagnosis, and facilities management related matters, ensuring compliance with health and safety, CDM regulations, and other industry standards.

What you will need

As the successful candidate you will need to have:

• A relevant degree or equivalent qualification in construction, building surveying or a related discipline.
• A professional membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or equivalent such as MCIOB.
• Significant experience in building surveying and project management.
• Experience in managing staff and consultants, budgets, contracts, and projects.
• Knowledge of building pathology, defects diagnosis, and remedial works.
• Knowledge of compliance matters including legionella, fire safety, asbestos, and CDM.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

As the Building Maintenance and Projects Lead, you will work in line with ESC's values of being Proud, Dynamic, Truthful, Good Value, United and will contribute to our vision of promoting a bright, green, open, free, and fair future for all East Suffolk.

Why work for us?

East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. Here are some of the main benefits:

• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays).
• Local government pension scheme.
• Agile working arrangements.
• Flexible working arrangements, as well as flexi-time scheme which allows individuals to accrue flex leave up to 15 days a year.
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
• Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.

Find more information about what we offer in our benefits brochure (pdf).

For more information

Go to our Property & Place page to find out more about the work in East Suffolk.

For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Nick Denny on [e-mail].

Closing date: 11:30pm, 9 May 2025

Interview date: 27 May 2025

How to apply

Step 1 - Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification (docx).

Step 2 - Complete the Supporting Statement template (docx). Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).

Step 3 - Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note, CVs are not accepted.

For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site (suffolkjobsdirect.org).