Building Safety Levy Officer

Job closes on 12/07/2026

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Building Control, Planning

£34,434 - £37,280

Permanent

Full time

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About The Role

Role: Building Safety Levy Officer

Location: Chorley and South Ribble

Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent

Salary: £34,434 - £37,280

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Building Safety Levy Officer to join our Compliance team who will be integral to implementing a strong robust service around the new Building Safety Levy – are you the person to help us achieve this?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in implementing and administering the Building Safety Levy, ensuring compliance with new and evolving legislation.

Working closely with internal teams, developers, and external stakeholders, you will be responsible for assessing developments, calculating levy liability, and managing the collection process. Your work will directly support the delivery of safer buildings and stronger regulatory compliance.

This role will cover both Chorley and South Ribble Building Control applications.

What you’ll be getting up to

No two days are the same in this role—but here’s a flavour of what your day‑to‑day might look like:

Assess building applications to determine levy applicability, ensuring accuracy and compliance
Work with developers and internal teams to explain requirements and guide them through the process
Manage levy accounts, track payments, and ensure charges are applied and collected correctly
Respond to queries and resolve issues, from routine to complex cases
Maintain clear records to support audit, compliance, and reporting
Collaborate across finance, planning, and building control to keep processes running smoothly
Apply legislation in practice, supporting the council’s statutory obligations
Identify opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency
Promote understanding of the levy and stakeholder requirements

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical knowledge, attention to detail, and a genuine commitment to delivering fair and effective levy administration.

You’ll have:

Knowledge and experience of building control and/or planning processes, ideally within a regulatory or local authority environment
Experience working with charging or fee-based regimes and producing financial returns or reports
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret legislation, guidance, and complex information and apply it in practice
A keen eye for detail, with confidence working with data, identifying discrepancies, and ensuring accuracy
The ability to lead on new processes and procedures, working collaboratively across planning, finance, and building control teams
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain requirements and engage a range of stakeholders with confidence and diplomacy
A proactive, adaptable mindset, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work under pressure, and drive continuous improvement

Other requirements

This role requires some travel around our boroughs. You should have a valid driving licence or the equivalent mobility.
Mathematics GCSE’s at Grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
Evidence of continued professional development

Our 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

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.

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.

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