Technical Manager
Role overview
- ID: 2024-5580
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry Cornwall South West
- Department: Technical
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Exeter, Devon
- Date Posted: 24.04.2024
We have a new opportunity for a Technical Manager to join our team within Vistry Cornwall South West, at our office in Exeter, Devon. As our Technical Manager, you will be able to demonstrate a practical, thorough, pro-active, and efficient approach to design development and management. You will be working within a team from the inception of a project through to its completion. Reporting to the Technical Director, you will be tasked with the control and coordination of the complete design process involving the management of design consultants, external parties and stakeholders, liaison with the relevant statutory, approval and local authorities, including Clients and Client’s representatives. You will need to prove an enhanced level of technical and construction knowledge, including a good working interpretation of Design Standards, the Building Regulations, Planning Guidance and the funding criteria relevant to the Affordable Housing sector. You will possess the commercial awareness to inform and develop design proposals to maximise design efficiency and profitability within identified approval constraints. You will have experience of working closely with commercial and operational teams to ensure efficient delivery of technical information for costing and construction.
The role provides team members with inclusive responsibility for technical project management, located primarily within the company’s head office, but with a requirement to attend site very frequently to provide support to site operations. The technical team work collaboratively to deliver considered and buildable design solutions, within agreed programme constraints to our project teams, with assistance from a selected and monitored consultant supply chain.
We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Agile working possible (dependent on role)
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private Healthcare
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
- Share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Professional Qualifications & Development (Degree, HND/HNC, CPD)
- Experience working within a technical role at a residential house builder or contractor
- Good level of IT literacy with experience of AutoCAD, Outlook, Excel & Word,
- Proven ability in a Technical Coordinator role of delivering design for projects on time, to budget and quality standards with high customer satisfaction results.
- Excellent knowledge of building regulations both current and forthcoming changes and transitions
- Excellent organization and time management with ability to multitask
- Able to produce and keep to a design delivery programme
- Commercially aware
- Ability to make decisions within authority
- Able to lead and work as a team member
- Experienced in analysing problems and delivering solutions
- Strong mathematical ability
- Be able to design and interpret the designs and technical demands of others
- Professional aptitude and appearance at all times
- Strives for continuous improvement for the benefit of the company.
- Driven to achieve customer satisfaction.
- Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work
- Be able to work effectively in a team
- Good level of communication skills, with the necessity to liaise with internal staff and external bodies and clients
- Be practical and methodical with good analytical skills
- Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
Desirable...
- Member of a professional body such as: ICE, CIAT, CIOB
- Principal Designer and associated Health and Safety training/ qualifications
- CSCS card qualification or equivalent
- Previous line management experience
- Continued professional development and keeping up to date with changes within the industry
Reference: 52527577
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