Technical Manager – Infrastructure

Salary: £60,000 – £96,000 per year

Technical Manager – Residential Infrastructure
North London
£60,000 – £96,000plus package
ZR-131
Our client is a well known major developer based in North London. They have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Manager with good Infrastructure experience to join their preconstruction team.
This role will be instrumental in delivering complex infrastructure on major residential projects and providing assistance to the project delivery teams alongside providing technical input to the land and planning process for strategic land sites.
Key Responsibilities:
* Undertaking technical due diligence for new strategic land opportunities, including producing summary technical reports.
* Advising on potential infrastructure and abnormal cost allowances for development viability appraisals, commissioning external cost consultants where necessary.
* Provide technical assistance to the Land and Planning team during the promotion and planning application stages of development sites within the strategic land portfolio, to ensure projects are technically deliverable, optimised and technical risks are mitigated where possible.
* Provide technical assistance to the Joint Venture (JV) team on complex, often brownfield, JV projects.
* Manage teams of external consultants responsible for producing Reserved Matters and detailed technical design packages for complex infrastructure on major projects.
* Manage the technical approval process and subsequent legal agreement process associated with the adoption of highways and drainage.
* Oversee the procurement process for infrastructure works packages, with the assistance of either internal commercial resource from the relevant housebuilding division or external cost consultants.
* Project manage the construction of complex strategic infrastructure works to an agreed programme and budget, to facilitate housebuilding on major projects.
* Ensure design and construction works are undertaken in accordance with the CDM Regulations and Company Health and Safety procedures.
* Report to the management team and departmental Directors in the housebuilding divisions on progress, forecast programme, financial performance and other project specific metrics.
* To develop and maintain for the Company good relationships with all individual companies and organisations.
* To achieve an excellent reputation in business as a whole by acting in a fair, firm, courteous and businesslike manner and ensuring that both written and verbal communication, internally and externally, is clear, accurate, relevant, properly timed and of good quality.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Preferably degree educated in a relevant subject such as Civil Engineering, Construction Project Management, Quantity Surveying or similar.
* Relevant experience working for other developers or consultants in a technical project management role working on residential-led developments
* Good understanding of technical risks associated with development sites
* Good knowledge and experience of construction contracts and legal agreements such as Section 278, 38 and 104 agreements
* Experience reviewing, analysing and reporting on project financials, including cost plans, tender comparisons, monthly cost reports and cashflows
* Demonstrable experience of managing construction works
Benefits and package:
* Competitive salaries to £60,000 – £96,000 per annum
* Performance related bonus schemes
* Company car or car allowance
* Private pension
* Private healthcare
* 28 days’ annual leave including bank holidays