
Municipal Building Surveyor
6 hours ago
Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. The council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale. The city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Their long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep.
Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community. Their organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.
Merri-bek pride themselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. They offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing their staff work/life balance. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep. Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.
The Building Services team is moving forward on their next phase of being a customer-centric, high performing team, focussed on delivering exceptional outcomes for the organisation. As such they are seeking a likeminded individual with proven management and leadership skills to perform the role of Municipal Building Surveyor.
Responsible for managing a team of approximately 13 staff, you will be responsible for the smooth running of the Building Services Unit including:
- Technical Responsibility: Using a risk-based approach to ensuring safe buildings, construction works and occupancy of buildings within the municipality.
- People Management: Running an engaged and aligned, high performing building team. Responsible for hiring and day to day management as well as the identification of training and development opportunities for the team.
- Process Improvement: Identifying and carrying out ways to make the Unit even more efficient as well as aligning with any new legislation relating to the Building Act and its functions.
- Operational Efficiency: Prepare and manage the unit’s budget, monitor and report on performance while liaising effectively with peers within the organisation as well as external representatives from state government, local community, councillors, and the development sector.
The successful incumbent will be registered with the VBA as an Unlimited Building Surveyor without restrictions and have extensive knowledge of building and related legislation / acts. They will have the ability to prepare written reports / correspondence on complex issues in a concise and structured manner to target the appropriate audience. Above and beyond their technical capability this person will be able to think strategically about how to improve people and processes and be able to train, develop and inspire a team to new heights.
What the role can offer:
- The opportunity to work alongside a professional supportive and highly collaborative leadership team.
- Extensive opportunities for training and career development.
- Salary sacrifice options and wellness programs.
- A real sense of work-life balance.
Further support offered for staff include:
- Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave
An attractive salary package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.
For a confidential discussion, please contact Kirsten Ellis at Planned Resources on or email
Applications close Monday 23rd June 2025
Merri-bek City Council is proudly diverse and an equal opportunity employer. They encourage applications from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, people with disability, and people from every culture, sexuality and gender identity, age and ethnic background. Merri-bek City Council is a Child Safe organisation.
Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.
We encourage everyone to apply and discuss opportunities to develop your knowledge and experience. Council is committed to removing barriers and access to employment where possible at any point in the recruitment, onboarding and during your time at Council.
Commitment
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.
Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse. They believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is the responsibility of everyone. You can read more about the Child Safety Commitment Statement on their website.
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