Experience

DBCP (Building Control)

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Building Control Surveyor

  • Aug 2022 - Present



Thurrock Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Building Control Surveyor

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2022

  - Carrying out plan checks for all domestic and minor to medium scale commercial projects.- Site inspections to domestic and commercial projects. Site inspections with Senior/Principal surveyor to larger scale commercial projects.- Customer and client care, offering technical and procedural advise by phone, email or face to face.- Relationship building with existing and new clients and active promotion of the service.- Record keeping of site notes and visits- Checking of new applications to ensure the correct fee is calculated in accordance with proposed works. Providing individual fee quotes where necessary.- Continued training and development via attendance of CPD events, job shadowing, and building control apprenticeship degree related training.- Working towards full professional membership with CABE/CIOB as part of apprenticeship programme. Show less

• Building Control Business Officer

  • Apr 2011 - Aug 2018

  Working within the Local Authority Building Control team. - Carrying out domestic plan checks and providing technical and procedural advice to customers. - Currently training and carrying out site visits accompanied by a Senior Surveyor.- Marketing and customer service duties including pre-application advice in regards to procedure, requirements, local information such as ground conditions, etc.- Checking and validating of new building control applications, including fee checking. - Updating and completing of site visit notes.- Record and KPI keeping and administrative duties in regards to the Council's in-house systems including Uniform. Template and fee editing. Show less

• Marketing and Business Development

  • Mar 2007 - Apr 2011

  Working with the Council's Building Control and Planning teams. Creation and monitoring of performance indicators. Monitoring of budgets and income as well as general administrative duties associated with these roles. Management of procurement, subscriptions and invoice payments.Providing Marketing assistance to the Building Control team in relation to commercial, Industrial and new housing projects. Setting up and organisation of seminars for marketing and training purposes.Use of ArcGIS mapping system to map historical Building Control applications to addresses and creation of mapping layers in relation to the borough's ground conditions/landfill sites.Preparation of Council Planning Committee presentations through PowerPoint and ArcGIS. Show less



Fear Me Christmas

• Freelance Writer

  • Feb 2012 - Aug 2017

  Mostly satirical or sports news based articles for fanzines or sports websites. - Writing articles as per instruction on discussion topics or news events - Weekly satirical reviews on sports events - General administration of forum or comments sections of websites Sites/sources written for include: redcafe.net Into The Sunset webzine SBNAtion.com Mostly satirical or sports news based articles for fanzines or sports websites. - Writing articles as per instruction on discussion topics or news events - Weekly satirical reviews on sports events - General administration of forum or comments sections of websites Sites/sources written for include: redcafe.net Into The Sunset webzine SBNAtion.com



Trident Trust

• Tilbury

• ICT Support and Operations Team Co-ordinator

  • Aug 2004 - Mar 2007

  Providing desktop support to local office team, as well as network and server administration/troubleshooting for onsite server supporting all 6 Essex based offices. Ensuring all data was backed up daily. Report writing using Microsoft Access and database administration and cleansing. In charge of all hardware for the local office. Where appropriate also helping with the day to day running of the office, either assisting with data input or liaising with customers. Our role was to find work placements for year 10 and 11 school students as well as extended placements for GNVQ students. To manage these placements and make sure all environments were safe and appropriate for students to work in. This was a small charitable organisation with very limited resources so it was not uncommon to be switching between an ICT and more general office role during the course of each day! Show less