Senior Technical Coordinator

Bellway Homes

Milton Keynes

On-site

GBP 55,000 - 75,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Competitive car allowance

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Annual bonus

Contributory pension

25 days holiday

Discounts and benefits portal

ShareSave Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life assurance

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Earn and Learn Opportunities

Job summary

Bellway Homes in Milton Keynes seeks a Senior Technical Coordinator to lead technical management and design coordination across new developments and legacy sites. You will support land, estimating, surveying, buying, construction and sales functions with collaboration across teams.

The role reports to the Technical Director and requires analysing site constraints, coordinating consultants, and ensuring compliance with planning, sustainability, and building regulations.

Qualifications

Experience as a Technical Coordinator with a high-volume house builder.
Understand development business and balance internal needs.
Up to date knowledge of CDM regulations.
Current CSCS card or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Provide technical management and design coordination on new developments and support on Legacy sites.
Carry out due diligence and technical reports pre-acquisition.
Review schemes technically before planning and advise on layouts.
Coordinate consultant design teams and monitor fees.
Attend design team and site progress meetings.

Skills

Strong communication

Teamwork

Motivated to deliver

IT literate

Administration skills

Diversity and inclusion

Education

CSCS card

Job description

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success, and we are committed to building an inclusive culture that values and respects difference combined with creating a safe and inclusive working environment for all colleagues. This means we are positive about making adjustments as well as providing flexible working and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you.

There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK's largest house builders. Our Northern Home Counties Division, located in Milton Keynes is looking to recruit a Senior Technical Coordinator to join the Division's Technical department.

The Role

The role of Senior Technical Coordinator is to provide technical management and design coordination on our new developments and provide support on our Legacy sites. The Legacy site support is mainly on sites where there are remedial works or investigations required based on the post Grenfell changing landscape around fire regulations. The Senior Technical Coordinator is responsible for the preparation, delivery and co-ordination of production information on allocated projects, to support the land/estimating/surveying/buying/construction and sales functions of the business.

The role of Senior Technical Coordinator reports to the Technical Director.

Principle Accountabilities Of The Role Include

Pre Acquisition

Commission and prepare due diligence/technical reports.
Research and advise existing site constraints.
Research and advise abnormal site conditions that may impact design or development costs.

Planning

Carry out technical review of schemes prior to planning applications being submitted to local authority and advise suitability of proposed designs.
Advise where layouts could best be optimised to improve net to gross development areas or add increased revenue from individual plots.
Provide architectural advice on design layouts and appearance of proposed new developments
Pre-selection of external materials
Commission investigative site surveys and reports

Implementation

Pre-selection, appointment, and management of consultant design team.
Negotiation of consultant fee proposals and monitoring of fee expenditure against allocated budgets.
Co-ordination of payments to external consultants
Attend design team meetings
Set outline design programmes and monitor consultant performance
Lead the optimisation process to enable early sign off of floor plans
Advise and co-ordinate requirements for sustainability, environmental, ecological and eco-homes constraints.
Clear building control, site engineering and warranty conditions with NHBC
Liaise with statutory utility providers.
Clear outstanding planning conditions with local authority.
Liaison with and co-ordination of specialist sub-contractors.
Attend site progress and co-ordination meetings.

Sales

Plot conveyancing plans as required by land registry
Computer Generated Images
Basic sales plans and area schedules

Legacy Sites

Review Bellway archives and provide project information to the Fire Team's specialists (e.g. Fire Engineer's, Solicitors, EWS1 surveyors)
Coordinate investigations of legacy buildings by specialist surveyors
Attend monthly regional Fire Team meetings
Coordinate and manage the technical aspects of sites where remedial works are required

Experience

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

Experience of working as a Technical Coordinator with a high-volume house builder.
Demonstrates a fundamental understanding of the development business and the necessity to balance the varying needs of different internal departments.
Up to date knowledge of CDM regulations.

Qualifications And Training