Job Title: Fire Door and Block Inspector

Location: Ashford, Kent

Salary : £32,334 to £35,844 pa depending on skills and experience plus Lease car or cash alternative of £2,080 pa

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

Working Hours: 37 Hours Per Week

Closing Date: 5th March 2025

About the Role:

This role will play a crucial role in ensuring fire safety, compliance, and quality of housing blocks within the jurisdiction of the local authority. Working within the Ashford Borough Council's Compliance Department, you will be responsible for conducting thorough inspections, identifying potential hazards, and reporting on findings.

Primarily you will be responsible for conducting regular and systematic inspections of housing blocks to assess their condition, safety, and compliance with Fire Safety Regulations, building regulations and housing standards. You will need to prepare comprehensive reports for further action, reporting back to the line manager any deviation from any of the standards expected by the local authority along with:

• Assisting in the enforcement of relevant housing legislation, council regulations, and standards, taking appropriate actions to address non-compliance issues.
• Maintaining accurate and detailed records of inspections, noting any violations, defects, or areas of concern.

About you:

It is essential that you have fire door inspection qualifications such as BM TRADA ,City and Guilds or equivalent, knowledge of building design, construction, undertaking surveys, remedial repairs, and experience of carrying out inspections on day-to-day repairs within tenanted and void properties and also communal areas of housing blocks along with having:

• Experience of using a Schedule of Rates ordering system
• Familiar with using and working with client specifications
• Sound knowledge of CDM
• Detailed knowledge of past and current building and construction technology, processes, materials and legal matters

Benefits:

We offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Hybrid Working - We are an organisation that puts people first and understands how important employee wellbeing is. We want to help you to balance your working life and home life and offer flexible ways of working to help structure your life in a positive and productive way; both at home and in the office. This maximises personal development and collaborative working.
• Competitive remuneration package - We offer an excellent salary linked pension scheme, generous annual leave with flexi time, free life insurance, supportive relocation package and opportunities for training and development.
• Generous annual leave
• Free life insurance
• Excellent salary linked pension scheme
• Supportive relocation package
• Opportunities for training and development

Additional Information:

With devolution news and talks evolving, we understand that there may be some uncertainty for those currently serving within the sector. Kent, Medway and all District and Borough Councils in the South East already work closely with each other and a devolution deal would represent the next step forward in that partnership working. The services we currently deliver continue to be vital to our communities and will remain so whatever changes may be proposed in the coming year. This is an exciting, but stable time to join our organisation.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community.

Ashford Borough Council recognises the need to ensure the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults when they come into contact with the services we provide.

To find out further information about the role and to view the full job description, please visit the council's website.

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Candidates With the Relevant Experience or Job Titles Of; Fire Door Inspector. Fire Door Engineer, Fire Door Installer, Construction Operative, Building Operative, Health and Safety Inspector, Construction Surveyor, Building Surveyor May Also Be Considered for This Role.