Pre-Construction Lead – Residential Development

Platform Housing Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

28 days leave

Family-friendly leave

Medicash membership

Health Cash Plan

Pension scheme

Learning & Development

Wellbeing & discounts

Job summary

Platform Housing Group is seeking a proactive Pre-Construction Manager to lead pre-construction activities across our development pipeline, ensuring schemes are robust, viable and aligned with Platform standards. You will coordinate external contractors, consultants and internal teams to secure planning consent, buildability, and programme readiness before Start on Site.

You'll bring extensive experience in residential development and pre-construction coordination, with strong knowledge of

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading pre-construction activities in residential development or affordable housing.
• Experience coordinating contractor-led pre-construction processes (frameworks, D&B, or JCT).
• Strong design coordination, technical reviews and buildability assessments.
• Experience interrogating cost plans and risk registers with evidence-based recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical and assurance lead during pre-construction, ensuring standards for design, safety, quality and value.
• Manage pre-construction programme, risk register, design deliverables and gateway submissions.
• Identify and mitigate technical, commercial and planning risks early.
• Ensure designs comply with Building Regulations, fire safety, sustainability and Platform design requirements.
• Coordinate planning applications inputs with Development and Land teams.
• Lead identification and coordination of planning/infra obligations (S38, S104, S278, S106).
• Oversee technical approvals (highways, utilities, drainage) before contracts and Start on Site.
• Provide technical support to delivery teams and attend design/project meetings.
• Maintain and reduce technical risks in the delivery phase.

Skills

Pre-construction management

Contractor coordination

Design coordination

Buildability reviews

Cost planning

Risk registers

Building Regulations

Planning process

Sustainability & MMC

Technical review

Job description

Platform Housing Group is seeking a proactive Pre-Construction Manager to lead pre-construction activities across our development pipeline, ensuring schemes are robust, viable and aligned with Platform standards. You will coordinate external contractors, consultants and internal teams to secure planning consent, buildability, and programme readiness before Start on Site.

You'll bring extensive experience in residential development and pre-construction coordination, with strong knowledge of