Pre Construction Director - Residential Developer

My client is looking to appoint a Pre-Construction Director to lead the planning of internal remediation works across multiple occupied residential blocks in London. This is a critical leadership role focused on shaping the delivery strategy, defining work scopes,and ensuring seamless coordination between consultants, fire specialists, designteams, and operational leads.

• Manage a multi disciplinary team of consultants, designers, fire engineers to ensure coordinated design and delivery readiness.
• Collaborate with commercial leads to input into budget planning, VE strategies, and programme phasing.
• Establish pre-construction QA processes and compliance trackers to support smooth transition into construction.
• Ensure all works are compliant with Building Regulations, PAS 9980, and Building Safety Act requirements.
• Define and lead the overall strategyfor internal remedialworks across multiple high-rise blocks, including setting clear milestones and governance structures.
• Liaise with operations and stakeholders to align on scope, sequencing, and stakeholder expectations.
• Direct intrusivesurveys and ensure scoping is evidence-based and accurately priced.
• Develop detailed pre-construction delivery plans, including phasing, access strategy, resident impact mitigation, and internal liaison with the Construction and Programme Directors.
• Support tendering and contractor appointment processes, ensuring packages are scoped correctly and aligned with the delivery strategy.
• Oversee the collation and review of design packs, fire strategies, and specifications to ensure readiness for procurement and delivery.
• Review contractor bids for technical completeness and risk.
• Oversight pre-construction meetings, risk reviews, and internal programmes.
• Assess buildability and sequence of works across internal systems e.g., fire stopping, doorsets, compartmentation, and finishes.
• Anticipate project risks and develop mitigation strategies across fire safety, logistics, resident impact, and programme.

The ideal candidate will have had a track record in residential refurbishment and/or internal upgrade projects, ideally involving fire compliance or building safety remediation. They must be able to bring structure, foresight, and clarity to complex programmes and ensure they are fully prepared for efficient delivery.

This is a Director level position for someone with extensive experience in delivering complex projects on time, within budget and the ability to provide our stakeholders with the comfort that the team are successfully delivering these complex projects on commercial and residential properties while being mindful that the works are impacting people’s homes.

• Calm, clear, and confident in complex or sensitive remediation programmes.
• Knowledge of UK buildinglegislation including the Building Safety Act, CDM Regulations, and fire safety standards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• 10+ years insenior roles within pre-construction, technical delivery, or remediation in the residential sector.
• Highly organised with a stronggrasp of technical detail.
• Strong strategicthinking and programme planning capabilities.
• Strong understanding of building safety remediation, particularly internal systemsand occupied building strategies.
• Proven experience leading the pre-construction phase on multi-block projects involving consultants, design coordination, and compliance.