Assistant Head and Enforcement Manager - Building Control
Architecture & Engineering (Physical)Posted 30 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Assistant Head and Enforcement Manager - Building Control WCC624470”
Job Details:
Salary range: £79,005 - £88,149 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience. Plus a Market Supplement of £10,000.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 27 July 2026
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION
Growth, Planning and Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places.
Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making. The future is safe in her hands.
Please view the extraordinary story of Serena’s Vision here.
The Role:
As a Assistant Head and Enforcement Manager, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. You’ll provide effective leadership to a team of specialists, evaluating a caseload that covers a full range of developments and complex schemes. You’ll provide high-level, expert professional and technical advice to colleagues, partner agencies and managers, acting as a source of guidance and expertise.
Through managing specialist or technical assessments and activities, you’ll successfully deliver the Building Control function throughout the Council’s jurisdiction, ensuring buildings comply with health, safety, sustainability, energy, conservation, accessibility, and design standards.
You’ll routinely review training, competency and licensing to ensure your team are qualified for the work they are undertaking, alongside conducting technical audits and assessments with surveyors. Collaborating with a wide range of external educational and government organisations, you’ll advance building control training, all whilst developing and maintaining excellent working relationships.
Most importantly, you’ll be a motivating, empathetic and supportive leader to your team, providing them with the expert level guidance they need to protect communities and residents across Westminster.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
An established professional with significant experience at senior level in building control and associated Regulations, you’ll have a minimum of 5 years of building control experience, or comparable industry experience.
In past roles, you’ll have presented CPD and training, and will have developed, managed, and mentored a variety of staff and technical specialists. You’ll likely have significant experience at senior level in a specialist field, and have liaised with the widest range of stakeholders, customers and clients.
On a personal level, you’ll have excellent attention to detail, interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to take a pragmatic and creative approach to problem solving. You’ll be organised, logical and ambitious, capable of motivating and inspiring your team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant and dynamic Council, and to supercharge your career in the process.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
