Senior Building Standards Surveyor

Strateon; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government department in Glasgow is looking for a Senior Building Standards Surveyor. This position requires providing specialist advice, managing workloads, and ensuring compliance. Candidates should hold full membership of a relevant professional institute and ideally have a degree in a construction-related discipline. The successful applicant will enjoy a flexible hybrid work model, generous leave entitlements, and various employee benefits related to local government employment.

Benefits

26 days paid annual leave

12.5 paid public holidays

Local government pension scheme

Life and Personal Accident Insurance

Occupational Sickness Pay

Staff Benefit Scheme

Glasgow Credit Union

Qualifications

• Full membership of MRICS, MCIOD, MBENG or equivalent construction relation professions institute is essential.
• Degree in an appropriate construction discipline is desirable.
• Full current driving licence is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional advice and recommendations for Building Standards service.
• Manage workload and maintain accurate records.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements.

Job description

Overview

We'd like to welcome you to the unique setting of Glasgow, Scotland's largest and most dynamic city. A global destination for innovation, culture, education and investment. As the heart of the Scottish economy and its only metropolitan region, Glasgow offers an exciting environment where major developments, landmark events and complex urban challenges are part of everyday life. Our Building Standards & Public Safety service plays a crucial role in shaping this city. From transformative city centre and city-wide projects to major concerts, festivals, international events and safety at sports grounds, the scale and variety of work is unparalleled in Scotland. If you're interested in working within a service that touches on all aspects within the city, please read on.

Position Details

We are offering an excellent opportunity to join our expanding Building Standards & Public Safety team as a Senior Building Standards Surveyor. There are 4 permanent positions. These posts are located within Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability and report to a Team Manager for Building Standards & Public Safety. In this role you will be responsible for providing authoritative specialist professional advice and recommendations to support the delivery of a high-quality Building Standards service to meet verifier appointment criteria, statutory duties, NRS service targets and wider Council objectives. You will manage your own workload, maintain accurate records and help ensure compliance with statutory requirements.

Full membership of MRICS, MCIOD, MBENG or equivalent construction relation professions institute is an essential requirement of this role. Whilst a degree in an appropriate construction discipline e.g., Building Surveying; Construction Engineering; Quantity Surveying; Architecture; etc, and a full current driving licence are desirable.

Contract Details

Weekly Hours: 35 per week
Work Pattern: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm
Annual Salary: £43,956.89 - £51,154.27 on an incremental scale Please note that this will increase by 3.5% on 1 st April 2026.

Hybrid working is available in this role. If you're shortlisted for the post, we look forward to telling you more about our approach to ensuring needs of the business are met along with flexibility to maintain your work-life balance through our family friendly policies, such as our flexible working procedure and work/life balance policy which are available here.

Benefits Of Working With Us

Glasgow City Council employees have access to a wide-ranging and generous benefits package. If you're successful in your job application, you'll have access to these benefits which include:

• 26 days (182 hours) paid annual leave, rising to 29 days (203) hours after 5 years' service
• 12.5 days (87.5 hours) paid public holidays each year
• Local government pension scheme
• Life and Personal Accident Insurance
• Occupational Sickness Pay
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Glasgow Credit Union

Additional Information

For guidance on completing your application, and to view other benefits on offer for employees of Glasgow City Council, please visit the following link. Details on our policies are available here.

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Further Information

Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts. For further information about working for us please refer to our website GCC HR Policies.