Job Description
Job Details:
Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 5 June 2026
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE.
Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work.
Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles.
Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.
More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.
Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.
The Role:
As a Structural Surveyor within the Building Safety Team, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. You’ll play an important role in supporting the structural safety management of the Council’s high-rise buildings, helping ensure our approach meets the requirements of the Building Safety Act and gives residents confidence in the homes they live in.
You’ll provide expert structural engineering input across Westminster’s high-rise buildings, assessing existing buildings and supporting the development of safety case reports. This will include helping collate key building information for submission to the Building Safety Regulator, making sure evidence is accurate and robust.
A key part of the role will be managing client-side oversight of consultant appointments for structural inspections and surveys. You’ll make sure work is delivered consistently and to the right quality, supporting safety case reports and Building Assessment Certificate submissions.
You’ll also bring sound knowledge of Large Panel System high-rise buildings and the investigations needed to understand structural integrity. Using your expertise, you’ll provide risk assessment analysis for structural elements within building safety case reports and support Building Safety Managers in managing structural safety risks across Westminster’s high-rise buildings.
Working closely with colleagues across repairs, development, fire safety and asset management, you’ll provide practical expert advice and help ensure structural safety is considered across our properties. You’ll also oversee the digitisation of historic drawing records and microfiches for Westminster’s high-rise buildings, helping strengthen the information base that underpins safe and effective building management.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
You’ll bring strong experience in carrying out structural condition surveys on high-rise buildings, with exposure to both new and older stock. That might include 1960s to 1980s concrete tower blocks, modern mixed-use high-rise buildings and hybrid structures.
You’ll have a sound understanding of how to assess and manage structural risk, along with experience of regulatory and compliance frameworks and remedial works planning. Chartered engineer status, such as CEng, MIStructE, ICE or equivalent, will be important, supported by hands-on experience working on high-rise buildings.
A strong working knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022, Building Regulations Approved Document A, the Fire Safety Order and Fire Safety Regulations will support your work. You’ll also understand the Golden Thread of Information requirements and be able to manage and contribute to the accurate building information needed for compliance and safe decision-making.
Your technical knowledge will include an expert understanding of reinforced concrete and Large Panel System construction used in high-rise buildings, as well as fire safety engineering principles as they relate to structural performance.
Just as importantly, you’ll be able to explain complex structural issues simply and clearly. Whether you’re speaking with colleagues, consultants or wider stakeholders, you’ll bring calm technical confidence, sound judgement and a practical focus on keeping residents safe.
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.