Architectural Building Regulations Principal Designer
- Source: LinkedIn
- The Annoying Recruiter
- Remote
- United Kingdom
- Full-Time
- Mid level
Job Description
When your practice made you Building Regulations Principal Designer, what went up: your salary, or just your liability?
For most architects it was the liability. The duty holder role landed on you and the pay stayed the same. You’re doing more than you were two years ago, and in typical architectural practice style your salary hasn’t caught up.
Working in a building safety consultancy, where the full-time job is Principal Designer, you don’t have these problems. You stand above the design team, and you’re paid well for it.
£70,000 to £95,000 depending on experience, with a company and individual bonus on top. If you’re on a practice salary, that’s at least £15,000 more for the work you’re already doing. That’s the difference between the holiday you price up and the holiday you book.
Building safety is still a young industry. The people moving into Principal Designer work now are building careers that everyone who waited will spend years trying to catch up with.
Holiday is 29 days plus bank holidays, including the Christmas shutdown and your birthday off. Private healthcare on top, and not the cheap kind: private hospital treatment, MRI and CT scans done privately, drugs fully funded including ones the NHS won’t pay for, and a private GP on video at any hour.
You’d work from home, five days a week, on a 37.5-hour week. In a practice that’s what you’ve done by Wednesday lunchtime, and nobody here orders pizza at nine o’clock and calls it culture. When you do want people around you, there are places to meet colleagues for the days you fancy going in.
The interview process is short. A relaxed Teams chat first, then a meeting with the directors. No kind of technical test.
What you’ll need: an architectural background and real Building Regulations Principal Designer work on live projects, ideally including higher-risk buildings. Happy to front a client meeting. Being on the RIBA or CIAT Principal Designer register is a nice bonus, not a condition.
**Matt Kirk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annoyingrecruiter/ [email protected]**No CV? Just send your old one or show me your LinkedIn page.
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