Senior Technical Officer (Grade 11)

Job Description

Job Category : Engineering & Surveying
Location : Bridgwater House, Somerset Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £15.70

Accountability
Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council’s equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety, and wellbeing of self and other; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

Undertake the role of Principal Designer for the benefit of projects undertaken by Somerset Independence Plus.
Arrange and undertake site visits, meeting with applicants, occupational therapists (OT’s), architects and contractors to determine eligibility for financial assistance.

Ensure project feasibility and scope of work, undertake measured surveys and to give technical advice. To liaise with other officers of the service and outside agencies.

Produce practical specifications, detailed drawings and schedules of work for extensions and other adaptations which contractors can work from to carry out the construction work. Ensuring compliance with Building Regulations, Planning Permission, listed building consent and good practice.

Obtain quotations and estimates from contractors and to scrutinise them and undertake a fair costings exercise for the proposed work.
Ensure that grant and other expenditure is approved and paid in accordance with the Councils’ standing orders.
Collect clients’ financial data and undertake means tests to determine eligibility for a grant.

Qualifications
Essential

• Qualification to HNC/D Level in surveying or relevant professional qualification.

Knowledge/Experience/Skills
Essential

Experience will cover one or more of the following disciplines:

• Working in a residential building surveying related capacity in either a local authority or the private sector.
• Working and processing datasets, databases and can interpret data.
• Knowledge of housing legislation in the areas of applying housing renewal in relation to private sector housing including supervision of building works and means testing.
• Basic housing finance.
• Processing grants.
• Ongoing professional development