Technical Manager - South East

Description

• Effectively manage each project to achieve the efficient, comprehensive, safe and proportionate remediation of buildings within scope, focusing on safety, quality, budget and risk management.
• Ensure that all internal project meetings are arranged and managed promptly and efficiently, ensuring all relevant decisions and actions are noted and recorded.
• Maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of all relevant legislation, procedures, and best practice, including the FRAEW and EWS1 assessment process and applicable standards for cladding remediation projects.
• Ensure delivery of the expected requirements, including timescales, quality, & risk mitigation, ensuring effective oversight of the works, completion, and handover.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the Technical Director of Cladding including, Director of Cladding Remediation and Group Technical Director.
• Ensure full review is undertaken at the Practical Completion of each phase and ensure lessons are learnt and incorporated across all current and future phases.
• Responsible for various cladding remediation projects, ensuring fire safety risk is effectively addressed before, during and after remedial works.
• Effective and proactive communications supporting internal comms teams and dealings with freeholders and management companies to ensure delivery of a safe, fair, and proportionate remedial solution to buildings.
• Responsible for ensuring coordinated media management through internal/corporate communications teams.
• Ensure risk is fully understood and managed, and actioned to the appropriate time frames to deliver project objectives.
• Responsibility and accountability for project budget control and financial delivery of the Cladding Remediation projects.
• Where required, develop a resident strategy for each phase of the project
• Building solid and trusted relationships with wider Technical team, Commercial teams & Production teams to ensure consistent construction quality and approach where TW controls remediation works.
• Ensure your team appropriately manage resource to deliver targets.
• Ensure awareness of political, industry related and environmental developments which may impact on delivery and phasing of the project.
• Ensure that cross-functional communication is paramount and effective.
• Ensure a coordinated approach for handover is implemented with projects, taking a lead role over Construction and Customer departments with a customer-centric agenda
• Drive quality with our Production teams and our Contractors.
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities across all consultants and contractors to ensure project objectives are met efficiently.
• Apply our document management and retention policy and ensure this is followed throughout the process. This enables all key information, decisions taken, and the designs and materials used to be recorded.
• Ensure a coordinated approach to all aspects of the architectural design, engineering, fire engineering and planning activities of remediation proposals.
• Ensure stakeholder communication is proactive, empathic, focused and engaging.
• Ensure effective liaison and negotiation with Statutory Authorities, planning authorities, stakeholders, and consultants to achieve the objectives and programme for an implementable Statutory Approval.
• Ensure TW CDM/ EMS procedures are followed on all projects.
• Responsible for CDM Project health, safety and environmental management, working with our internal HSE team and engaged advisors.
• Managing and developing trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, driving clear communication throughout the Group and Business Unit teams.
• Effectively manage the professional bodies, consultants, Contractors & Subcontractors as required across remediation projects.
• Effective contract and scope negotiation with design teams, contractors, freeholders, and management companies.
• Provide cost-effective service, carefully control expenditures, and manage budgets and overheads.
• Ensure awareness of political, regulatory, industry related and environmental developments which may impact delivery and priorities as necessary.

Requirements

• Provide good leadership to the team, and demonstrate effective management and communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial skills, breadth of view beyond traditional approaches
• Proven experience in working with lawyers and communication consultants
• Proven track record of managing a range of stakeholder relationships, including local authorities, landowners, developers, and contractors
• Communicate and role model the Taylor Wimpey Cultural Principles.
• Strong networker, totally committed to community involvement
• In-depth knowledge of the construction process and construction methods, knowledge of current UK construction, legislation, regulations, standards, and procedures
• Considerable drive and energy
• Strong understanding of residential construction, with a proven track record of delivering high-profile, complex construction projects to time, cost, and quality standards
• Degree or professional qualification in property, development, construction, or a related field (or equivalent work experience and a clear plan for achieving the necessary qualifications)
• General awareness of Insurance on remediation schemes.
• Proven track record within the construction industry, with experience gained in working with developers, contractors and other related partners
• High standard of financial literacy & analytical skills

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance