Senior Technical Manager – Capital Projects (E1849N)

Reporting to the Head of the Capital Projects, this role will support the design and delivery of Northstowe, a key strategic residential led development project based in Cambridgeshire, working alongside other technical specialists supporting the acquisition, de-risking, unlocking and disposal of land.

Northstowe is a major new settlement being developed 8km northwest of Cambridge. Once completed, it will be one of Cambridgeshire’s largest towns and the first new town in England since the 1960’s. Homes England is leading the sustainable development through its ownership of over 450 hectares of land to deliver 8,500 new homes, several new schools and community, sports facilities, and a new town centre.

Working in the Technical Services, Capital Projects team, this role will support and lead on technical and engineering aspects of land development to ensure that Homes England fulfils its mission to increase housing supply. You will be joining an experienced team who are committed to delivering a first class technical service. 

This role is crucial in supporting colleagues to de-risk and prepare sites for residential development by specifying, procuring and managing enabling and infrastructure works contracts to unlock land for development in a safe and cost-effective manner.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of residential infrastructure development in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional technical team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective identification and resolution of technical issues across a portfolio of development sites. 

The post holder will have significant experience in managing and delivering construction engineering solutions and works contracts to support residential development. Experience of designing, planning, procuring and managing the delivery of enabling and infrastructure works contracts including demolitions, highways, drainage and utilities to unlock residential development sites is essential. 

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class service to our colleagues and stakeholders by providing expert technical knowledge, you will be used to “spinning several plates” at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

As a professional Senior Technical Manager with a minimum of 10 years’ experience of successfully delivering infrastructure, construction or land regeneration projects of scale and complexity, preferably in the housing development sector, you will desirably be educated to degree level and/or hold chartered professional membership in engineering, construction management or other related technical discipline.

You’ll be comfortable supporting several projects with complex technical issues, aiming to find solutions to open up and deliver infrastructure works required to unlock and facilitate developments on-site. You will be proficient in procuring and managing technical consultant teams and advisors defining their scope of services and deliverables, programme and budget to support capital works contracts, and be able to critically review technical documents to identify risks and potential development issues, propose appropriate mitigation strategies and provide technical quality assurance regarding content and price.

You will have experience in procuring capital works contracts, taking the lead in drafting and reviewing technical scopes, works information and tender documents for enabling works (including demolition, remediation, earthworks, site clearance and temporary works) and infrastructure works (including highways, drainage, utilities, structures, landscape and ecological mitigation) to support residential led development.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as part of a dynamic delivery focused team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced Senior Technical Manager you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday – Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly – At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing – We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development – At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk