Designer (18 month FTC)

Taylor Wimpey; Colden Common; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK residential developer seeks a Designer to deliver high-quality designs and manage planning applications. You will coordinate with various teams to ensure that designs meet business requirements, and will oversee community engagement and statutory negotiations. The ideal candidate has a degree in a relevant field and experience in the housebuilding sector. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract with the possibility of becoming permanent, offering benefits such as health cover and development opportunities.

Benefits

House purchase discount scheme

Company pension contributions

Quality health cover

Flexible benefits like additional holiday days

Retail discounts

Free Bupa health assessments

Industry-leading training and development

Qualifications

• Previous experience in the housebuilding sector.
• Capable of preparing and managing planning applications.
• Computer literate with knowledge of Autocad.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality designs and planning permissions.
• Manage external consultants for information co-ordination.
• Ensure viability of designed schemes with internal colleagues.
• Implement Quality Management Process for design information.
• Liaise with authorities on achieving project objectives.

Skills

Planning application management

Design coordination

Strong communication

Knowledge of Autocad

Education

Degree level qualification in a relevant field

Job description

As the role of the Designer, you will deliver the highest quality designs and most commercially viable planning permissions by supporting the Planning team with designs and supporting information required for the preparation and submission of planning applications.

This is an 18 month fixed term contract with the potential to become a permanent opportunity.

What you will do :

Pre-Development Management

• Produce & co-ordinate high quality designs, utilizing TW standard products and details wherever possible
• Management of external consultants to ensure information is received, checked, co-ordinated and distributed on time and within budget.
• Attend concept, pre tender, pre start, specification and any other relevant meeting as required under the Company’s Framework procedure.
• Ensure the designed scheme is viable, liaising with internal colleagues to ensure the scheme meets BU requirements
• Implement the departments Quality Management Process to ensure Design information meets the high quality expectations of the business.
• Arrange, co-ordinate and manage all design meetings with other departments in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring all relevant action points are noted and recorded.
• Liaise and negotiate where necessary with Statutory Authorities, Local Planning Authorities, Highways, Consultants etc. to ensure projects achieve the set objectives and programmes.
• Liaison with sales department in procurement of accurate sales presentation drawings.

Development Management

• Liaise and co-ordinate design information with the Engineering team to insure adoptable and approval standards are met.
• Provide knowledge / expertise to react to changes in legislation as dictated by industry standards of Building Control, NHBC and planning law.

Land and, Planning & Community Engagement

• Alongside the Planning team, manage community consultations, enquiries and reactions of the surrounding population to planning applications.
• Alongside the Planning team, manage and drive Section 106 agreements, identifying the commercial impact and negotiating commercially viable contributions with authorities.
• Alongside the Planning team, clear all planning conditions prior to approval.
• Support planning applications, co-ordinate with the Planning & technical teams to deliver accurate designs and approvals from inception to completion, including all supporting document.
• Responsible for all planning and development functions on a determined number of sites. Input into house type design forum.
• Assist in the evaluation and appraisal of development opportunities to purchase new sites.

Health, Safety & Environment

• Implement a high level of CDM, identifying foreseeable risk in designs and taking action to design risk out, in line with company policy.
• Clear understanding of industry operating practices such as Health, Safety & Environment and how these should be incorporated into designs.

What you will have :

• Degree level qualification in a relevant field
• Previous experience in the housebuilding sector
• Capable of preparing and managing a number of planning applications
• Computer literate with knowledge of Autocad

Individuals seeking employments at Taylor Wimpey should know that we foster a culture of inclusion and value diversity positively which creates a better workplace and delivers stronger outcomes. We commit to treating all our job applicants and employees fairly and with respect, irrespective of background, disability or any other protected characteristic. If you require any assistance with regards to reasonable adjustments during the application process, please do not hesitate to contact us.

What we will offer you :

Taylor Wimpey is a FTSE 100 business and one of the largest residential developers in the UK, building new homes and communities across England, Scotland and Wales. We are passionate about building new homes and communities with a focus on sustainability.

Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all the great work that they do. Our employees enjoy many standard benefits including access to the Taylor Wimpey House purchase discount scheme, pension (including company contributions), quality health cover, share save schemes as well as many flexible benefits such as buying additional holiday days, retails discounts, free Bupa health assessments and so much more. Our benefits work perfectly with our culture where you feel valued as a member of a successful team.

We offer industry leading subsidised professional training and development, which support our employees to excel and fulfil their career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. This in turn drives a strong succession of high performing customer centric leaders, really putting customers at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies, skills and experiences that each person brings to the company.