Building Control Technical Support Assistant

Role: Building Control Technical Support Assistant
Location: Civic Centre, Leyland
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week)/Permanent
Salary: £26,824 - £27,254
Closing Date: 21 June 2026

Are you highly organised, detail oriented, and ready to play a key role in supporting a vital local authority service? We're looking for a proactive individual to provide essential technical and administrative support to our Building Control team. In this dynamic role, you'll be at the heart of our operations, managing correspondence, coordinating inspections and meetings, processing applications and ensuring accurate record keeping. If you thrive in a fast paced environment and enjoy making systems run smoothly, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical and administrative support to the building Control team including the management of correspondence and arranging meetings and inspections for Building Control Surveyors.
• Receiving and processing Building Control applications.
• Ensuring correct payments are invoiced and taken.
• Generally supporting the smooth running of the team.

Qualifications

• A bright dedicated person who is willing to learn and develop on the job.
• Someone with excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
• A real Team Player.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown).
• Hybrid/agile working from day one.
• Local Government pension.
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments.
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love.
• Volunteering days.
• Free parking.

About Us

At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They're at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices. We're committed to making our recruitment practices barrier free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website. If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.