Maintenance Inspector (Internal)

• East Suffolk Council
• Location: Riverside, 4 Canning Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0EQ
• Salary: £35,412 - £42,839 per annum, Bands 6 / 7
• Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week
• Contract: Secondment

East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work, delivering essential local services and making a real difference to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.

We currently have an opportunity to join East Suffolk Council's Repairs and Maintenance Team as a Maintenance Inspector.

Your role

As the successful candidate you will:

• Undertake inspections of maintenance defects, identify suitable remedial actions and extent of work necessary to rectify or improve the reported defect.
• Identify works necessary to be undertaken from the rolling Capital works programme.
• Carryout void property inspections and commission work to meet current lettable standards. Undertake stock condition surveys.

What you will need

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience of a Building Maintenance environment and have a good understanding of building regulations. The candidate will have experience of safe systems and processes in place for the collection, recording, analysis and reporting of data, which are focused on securing data is that accurate, valid, reliable, timely, relevant and complete.

Why work for us?

East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video and find out why our employees think it is such a great place to work (youtube).

Here are some of the main benefits:  

• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)  
• Local government pension scheme  
• Flexible working arrangements  
• Learning and development tailored to your role  
• A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.  
• Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.  
   

Find more information about what we offer in our benefits brochure (pdf).  

The majority of our teams are working in an agile way, with a mixture of home and office working, depending on individual preferences and service requirements. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate, please contact the recruiting manager listed at the bottom of this advert.

For more information

For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Kevin Jacobs by emailing [email protected] 

Closing date: 10.00 am, 24 July 2026.

Interview date: 29 July 2026.

How to apply

Step 1 - Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification (Word)

Step 2 - Complete the Supporting Statement template (Word). Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).

Step 3 - Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note, CVs are not accepted.

For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site.