Building Permit Officer/Building Inspector at Gävle Municipality

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

The employees of Livsmiljö Gävle make Gävle more beautiful, safer, and more eventful. Every day we provide people with experiences while we build, develop, and influence today's and tomorrow's society. Your contributions have a significant impact on the daily lives of Gävle residents. We offer you a meaningful, stimulating, and developing job. We help Gävle grow and provide exciting experiences for its residents.

In the building permit unit, we work with permit applications, notifications, preliminary decisions, shoreline protection, and supervision matters, as well as conducting inspections related to constructions. We also have a team that handles housing adaptation grants and housing priorities. Currently, we are nearly 30 employees divided into different teams where we help and support each other. We are now looking for a new team member for one of our building permit teams – could it be you?

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you want to help shape the future of Gävle? With us, you will work in an important authority role as part of building projects, with a strong focus on service and quality.

As a building permit officer/building inspector with us, you will be part of a knowledgeable and helpful building permit team. We work closely together and value good collaboration where we support each other in our daily work both within the team and within the unit.

Your main tasks will include:

• Processing building permits, notifications, preliminary decisions, and shoreline protection exemptions
• Conducting technical consultations, site visits, and final consultations
• Providing advice and guidance on building permit issues, often in early stages

The role involves a high degree of independence, and many decisions are made by delegation. This means you must be structured, responsible, and confident in your assessments. Some cases you will present to the board.

You will have many contacts, both internally and externally, with entrepreneurs, private individuals, builders, consultants, and other authorities. Therefore, it is important that you know how to work to achieve high customer satisfaction.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• Relevant education, such as a building engineer, building permit officer, architect, lawyer, or building conservator, or equivalent competence through experience
• Experience working as a building permit officer or building inspector
• Good knowledge of the Planning and Building Act (PBL)

Meritorious:

• Previous experience from the construction industry

A B driver's license is required for the position, as travel within the municipality is part of the job.

You have the ability to create and maintain good relationships, both internally and externally, and collaborate well with people in various contexts and functions. You inspire trust, create confidence and reliability, and radiate calm and stability.

You have the ability to see what needs to be prioritized, are efficient, and use resources to achieve results in the best possible way. You have linguistic proficiency in both speech and writing and can adapt your communication to different situations, purposes, and audiences.

With us, you will have a meaningful job where you contribute to a sustainable and attractive living environment for Gävle's residents. We offer a workplace with engaged colleagues, a good atmosphere, and the opportunity to grow in your professional role.

Welcome to us!

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To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager, do not submit your application digitally.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle Municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.