Head of Technical

Description

The Head of Technical is a key member of the Senior Management Team, responsible for delivering Year 1 of our 5-year business plan.

• Maintain Business Management Systems (BMS), technical specifications, and system resources.
• Pre-Construction: Leading the technical co-ordination and delivery of projects, forecasting programmes for accuracy and on time delivery.
• Use data and insights to manage and deliver KPIs for year 1 business plan, collaborating with other department heads and reporting progress in delivery of business plan goals.
• Structural Engineering: Ensuring structural integrity and compliance in line with Building Regulations and project plans
• Ensure appropriate and efficient resourcing of the department, within budget and in place to meet business plan goals and targets.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental policies during the pre-construction phase.
• Product Governance: Managing technical standards, delivery of new innovations, regulatory compliance and management of all product third party certifications and accreditations.
• Ensure accuracy and clarity of project information with customers and design teams, ready for delivery to our design office for manufacturing design.
• Deliver customer excellence through building strong customer relationships, listening to needs and working with the team and across departments to deliver required results.
• Contribute to budget setting, resource planning, and strategic development of the pre-construction function.
• Manage all design and scope changes throughout the pre-construction phase to identify, price and agree with customers, in conjunction with the commercial and estimating teams.
• Lead a team to provide support, guidance, knowledge and development, all focused on exceptional customer delivery.
• Deliver clear and concise product information to support customers and internal teams.

Requirements

• Experience of managing remote teams to deliver exceptional results.
• Process-oriented with a high level of rigour and adherence to core procedures.
• Ability to use business metrics to drive performance.
• In-depth knowledge of timber frame construction and current building regulations.
• Proven leadership of technical teams, delivering excellent customer experience and effective project handovers.
• Strong planning capability with logical thinking skills.
• Understanding of timber frame manufacturing and on-site installation processes.
• Confident, fluent communicator with strong influencing and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, company car allowance, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. .

Hybrid role with time at any of our three offices - Witney Oxfordshire - Westhill Aberdeen - Plains Scotland.

30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

Training + Development

Interview process

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