Development Pre-Construction Manager

Platform Housing Group; Coleshill Heath; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary up to £64,869

28 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Medicash membership

Learning & Development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Platform Housing Group is seeking a Pre-Construction Manager to lead and oversee pre-construction activities across our development pipeline. You will ensure schemes are technically robust, commercially viable and aligned with Platform standards, Homes England requirements and buildability before Start on Site.

You will collaborate with Development and Land teams, manage design deliverables, and coordinate planning inputs while mitigating technical and planning risks across central UK sites.

Qualifications

• Experience leading pre-construction activities for residential schemes.
• Coordination of design, cost plans and risk registers.
• Knowledge of planning processes, design standards, Building Regulations and fire safety.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical and assurance lead during pre-construction.
• Produce or review pre-construction programme, risk register and design deliverables.
• Coordinate gateway submissions and ensure buildability and value.
• Identify and mitigate technical, commercial and planning risks.
• Support planning applications with input from technical/design teams.
• Track and coordinate S38/S104/S278/S106 obligations as needed.
• Ensure timely technical approvals (highways, utilities, drainage, consents).
• Attend design and project team meetings to provide technical input.
• Manage technical risk registers into delivery phase.

Skills

Pre-construction management

Residential development

Design coordination

Planning & Building regs

Job description

Can you help make a real difference to our homes and communities? Are you ready to take the next step in your career with a dynamic, purpose-driven social housing group?

We have an amazing opportunity for a Pre-Construction Manager to join a dynamic, dedicated and growing team to lead and oversee pre‑construction activities across Platform's development pipeline, ensuring schemes are technically robust, commercially viable and aligned with Platform standards and the requirements of Homes England.

The role ensures that external contractors, consultants and internal teams work collaboratively to achieve planning consent, cost certainty, efficient buildability, quality assurance and programme readiness prior to Start on Site.

As our Pre-Construction Manager, you'll:

• Act as Platform's technical and assurance lead during pre‑construction, ensuring contractor-led proposals meet organisational standards for design, safety, quality and value.
• Manage, interrogate and produce (where required) pre‑construction programme, risk register, buildability assessments, design deliverables and gateway submissions.
• Ensure early identification and mitigation of technical, commercial and planning risks.
• Ensure designs comply with Building Regulations, fire safety requirements, sustainability targets and Platform's design requirements.
• Collaborate closely with the Development and Land teams to support the preparation, coordination, and submission of planning applications, ensuring all technical, design, and statutory inputs are complete and aligned to Platform's standards.
• Lead the early identification, tracking and coordination of sectional agreement obligations (such as S38, S104, S278, S106 elements relevant to technical planning or infrastructure interfaces).
• Ensure timely progression of technical approvals, including highways, utilities, drainage and any other statutory consents required prior to contract signing or start on site.
• Provide technical support to the delivery team, attending design and project team meetings.
• Onward management of technical risk registers during delivery phase, ensuring that early risks identified are reduced or removed.

To join our team, you'll have:

• Extensive experience managing pre-construction activities within residential development, affordable housing or partnership-led schemes.
• Proven track record coordinating contractor led pre-construction processes, ideally within frameworks, D&B contracts or JCT arrangements.
• Demonstrable experience in design coordination, technical reviews, buildability assessments and navigating planning requirements.
• Experience interrogating cost plans, value engineering proposals and risk registers.
• Strong knowledge of residential design standards, Building Regulations, fire safety legislation, planning processes, sustainability and MMC principles.
• Ability to challenge contractor proposals with technical confidence and provide robust, evidence-based recommendations.
• Able to review drawings, specifications, design reports and technical data.
• Strong understanding of construction programmes and critical path analysis.
• Driving license, access to a car and flexibility to work across our geographical areas as this role brings extensive travel across central UK to our sites and offices.

Some of the great benefits we can offer you:

• Competitive salary of up to £64,869 per annum, depending on experience
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
• Pension scheme with minimum employee contributions of up to 3% and Platform will contribute up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers