Technical Manager

Formation Homes Ireland; Limerick; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Formation Homes Ireland seeks a Senior Technical Coordinator to lead the technical department across multiple residential developments, coordinating design information, planning approvals, building regulation compliance, warranty submissions, and completion documentation to meet programme and company procedures.

You will manage Consultant appointments, review design information, coordinate Part M and BCMS processes, ensure regular design-team meetings, track actions, and escalate risks to the

Qualifications

• Substantial technical-management or design-coordination experience in Irish residential development.
• Practical knowledge of multidisciplinary design coordination, drawing control, specifications and construction sequencing.
• Working knowledge of Irish building-control processes and BCMS documentation.
• Experience managing external consultants, design programmes, and design meetings.
• Ability to interpret technical information and communicate risks to multiple teams.
• Strong leadership, planning, document-control and mentoring capability.
• Awareness that jurisdiction-specific certification requires input from competent persons.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the technical department's workload across live and pre-construction developments.
• Coordinate design information, specifications and controlled issue.
• Coordinate planning, building regulations compliance and warranty inputs with specialists.
• Manage consultant appointments and monitor performance against design programmes.
• Ensure design-team meetings have clear agendas and tracked actions.
• Support site teams by coordinating responses to technical queries.
• Develop Technical Coordinators through mentoring and coaching.
• Align department schedule with construction programmes.

Job description

To lead the technical department and coordinate design information, consultants, building control, warranty and completion-documentation work so that residential developments receive timely, coordinated technical information aligned with planning requirements, the construction programme and company procedures.

2. Reporting relationships

• Reports to Construction Director
• Function Technical Staff
• Key relationships -Construction, Commercial, Technical, Finance, Procurement, Sales, Customer Care and external project stakeholders as relevant to the role.

3. Key responsibilities

• Lead, allocate and oversee the technical department's workload across live and pre- construction residential developments.
• Manage the preparation, review, coordination and controlled issue of design information and specifications.
• Coordinate the technical response to planning requirements, building regulations compliance and warranty-provider requirements, using appropriately appointed specialists where required.
• Manage consultant appointments and deliverables within the authority delegated by the Construction Director, and monitor performance against agreed scopes and design programmes.
• Provide technical input to pre-contract reviews, negotiations and monthly contract meetings.
• Ensure a design-team meeting is held for every project fortnightly or monthly, as appropriate to the design team and project needs.
• Ensure design-team meetings have a clear agenda, recorded minutes, named actions and follow-up of overdue matters.
• Undertake regular design-programme reviews and test planned design-information releases against the construction programme.
• Identify design dependencies, late information, unresolved interfaces and technical risks, and escalation their likely programme or delivery effect.
• Manage the department's BCMS workflow, including documentation for commencement notices, Fire Safety Certificates, Disability Access Certificates and any dispensation or relaxation applications required for a project.
• Coordinate Part M compliance reviews, including consideration of the 2022 amendments, and ensure identified issues are referred to the appropriate designer or specialist.
• Oversee the collation, checking and controlled retention of BCMS submissions and supporting records.
• Oversee the collation of documents supporting the Certificate of Compliance on Completion, without assuming any statutory certification role not separately appointed.
• Coordinate equivalent English building-control and warranty submission work where a development falls within that jurisdiction, obtaining jurisdiction-specific advice as required.
• Support site teams by coordinating responses to technical queries and ensuring changes are reflected in controlled information.
• Develop Technical Coordinators and Senior Technical Coordinators through workload planning, review, coaching and consistent technical procedures.
• Department design-information and drawing-release schedule aligned with each construction programme.
• Design-team meeting agenda, minutes and action tracker for each project at the agreed meeting frequency.
• Regular design-programme review identifying late information, dependencies, unresolved decisions and programme risks.
• BCMS, Part M, building-control, warranty and completion-documentation status report by project.
• Consultant deliverables and technical-risk report with owners, required dates and escalations.

5. Performance measures

• Timely availability of coordinated design information against agreed project and construction programme requirements.
• Quality, regularity and action close-out of fortnightly or monthly design-team meetings.
• Completeness, traceability and status visibility of BCMS and completion-documentation records.
• Early identification and escalation of design conflicts, missing information and programme dependencies.
• Effective coordination of planning, Part M, building-regulations and warranty inputs without unsupported compliance claims.
• Consultant deliverables monitored against agreed scopes and design programmes.
• Consistent technical procedures, workload control and development of the technical team.
• Responsiveness and accuracy of coordinated answers to site and sales-information queries.

6. Required competence and experience

• Substantial technical-management or design-coordination experience in Irish residential development or housebuilding.
• Practical knowledge of multidisciplinary design coordination, drawing control, specifications and construction sequencing.
• Working knowledge of Irish building-control processes and BCMS documentation, including commencement and completion workflows.
• Working knowledge of Part M, including the 2022 amendments, and the coordination of Fire Safety Certificate and Disability Access Certificate inputs.
• Experience managing external consultants, design programmes, technical meetings and action close-out across several projects.
• Ability to interpret technical information, identify interfaces and communicate risks clearly to construction, commercial, sales and senior-management teams.
• Strong leadership, planning, document-control and mentoring capability.
• Awareness that jurisdiction-specific, statutory and certification matters require input from the appropriately appointed competent persons.

7. Authority and boundaries

• Leads and coordinates the technical function within approved project scopes, budgets, appointments and company procedures; consultant appointments, variations and expenditure remain subject to delegated approval limits.
• Does not claim or exercise the role of Assigned Certifier, Design Certifier, statutory certifier or other formally appointed duty‑holder unless separately and expressly appointed.
• Does not approve departures from planning, building regulations, fire‑safety, accessibility, warranty or other project requirements without the required review and authorisation.
• May challenge incomplete or uncoordinated information and require corrective action, but material programme, cost, contractual or scope decisions are escalated to the relevant accountable manager.
• Legal interpretations and jurisdiction‑specific compliance opinions must be obtained from the company's appointed advisers or competent specialists.

8. Health, safety, quality and conduct

• Health and safety, statutory compliance and quality are non‑negotiable and must not be traded for cost or programme advantage. The role is expected to support competent planning, accurate records, fair treatment, a learning culture and the objective of snag‑free delivery, while preserving accountability and applicable statutory duties.