The city of Illnau-Effretikon, located between Winterthur and Zürich, offers attractive living conditions. Join a dynamic team with exciting opportunities and benefits.
Tasks
- Lead the building permit department and shape its development.
- Ensure legal compliance in the building permit process.
- Coordinate appeals and oversee heritage preservation procedures.
Skills
- Experience in planning and building law in Zurich is essential.
- Strong leadership skills, preferably with additional training.
- Excellent verbal and written German communication skills.
The city of Illnau-Effretikon - located between Winterthur and Zurich - offers attractive conditions for around 18,000 inhabitants with its rural and urban areas, hamlets, centres, and the historic village of Kyburg.
Our team in the Building Department is responsible for the areas of building permits, urban planning, real estate, energy, and sport.
As Head of Building Permits, you are responsible for the building permit process up to and including final acceptance. You lead a team of specialists from the building permits, building control, fire police, and civil protection control bodies. All team members have many years of experience in their fields of activity.
For the newly created position, we are looking for an immediately available or mutually agreed upon strong leader or an ambitious young talent with solid professional expertise as
Your tasks in this role are:
- You take on the personnel and organisational leadership of the Building Permits area and actively shape its further development.
- Together with your team, you ensure the legally compliant execution of the building permit process and advise applicants.
- You coordinate building appeal procedures and ensure a smooth process.
- You accompany procedures in the area of monument preservation.
- You draft and review building permits and ensure a high quality of decisions.
- You actively contribute your expertise in the meetings of the building authority.
Your profile fits excellently if you:
- enjoy working in a dynamic environment with a lively team.
- have professional experience and good knowledge of planning and building law in the canton of Zurich.
- possess leadership skills, ideally complemented by further training.
- have gained experience in project management.
- preferably already have knowledge of CMI (construction) and eBuilding application.
- have very good oral and written expression in German.
