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Role overview ID: 2024-5160 Entity: Vistry Region: Vistry North East Midlands Department: Land & Planning Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time Job Location: Enderby, Leicestershire Date Posted: 25.03.2024 We have a new opportunity for a Senior Design Coordinator to join our team within Vistry North East Midlands, at our Enderby office in Leicester. The purpose of the role is to meticulously design and adapt site layouts throughout various stages of residential projects, ensuring optimal functionality, efficiency, and compliance with regulatory standards. The role will require confident collaboration with project managers, planners and other key stakeholders involved early on within the project. You will support the consultants and other technical coordinators, you will understand the businesses requirements and priorities, to ensure on-time delivery of information by way of regular communication and detailed checking of the information received. The role will encourage engagement for design feedback and the ability to develop best practice design protocols, alongside developing our regional design standards for sites. Key responsibilities will include conceptualising, designing and refining site layouts to accommodate a variety of factors such as site constraints, environmental considerations, design ambitions and project requirements. The individual will have a strong understanding of construction key principles, employing best practice to create and inform layouts that maximise the use of available space, whilst also highlighting and mitigating any risks and constraints. Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you... Competitive basic salary and annual bonus Company car, car allowance or travel allowance Agile working possible (dependent on role) Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private Healthcare Competitive contributory pension scheme Life assurance 4 x your annual salary Share incentive schemes Employee rewards portal with many more benefits... In return, what we would like from you... Behave in line with our company values Integrity, Caring and Quality Construction/design related further education. Member of Professional Body (membership of professional body is preferrable but not essential). Minimum 3-5 years working with or for a housebuilder. Experience of working in a design team, managing and submitting planning application layout and the production of working drawing information. Fully conversant with National Design Guide Standards. Experienced in Auto CAD. Ability to deliver mixed tenure schemes based on Partnership specifications / requirements. Ability to make design decisions and a pragmatic approach to problem solving. Good time management with ability to multi task. Professional aptitude. Attention to detail. Positive attitude toward teamwork and design adaptions early in the process. Ability to work under pressure. Highly organised. Desirable Previous experience in Housebuilding or working for Housebuilder clients A passion for and experience in comprehensive site design e.g. consideration of vistas, aesthetic choice and house type hierarchy. Comfortable researching and locating LPA Design Guides & Codes. Experience in Revit. More about the Senior Design Coordinator role... Negotiate effectively with a wide range of organisations, statutory bodies and interest groups to achieve the desired design outcomes. Communicate effectively with all relevant departments in writing, verbally and in presentation format to provide accurate and timely information. Establish and maintain strong and respected working relationships with internal departments, local authorities and companies throughout the region. Review site layout design audits from internal departments and respond to and/or resolve any issues in a timely manner. On occasion, provide design reports and highlight any unforeseen risks to departments senior management team relevant to the layout design Control the management of up to date layout drawings and issue sheets. Achieve agreed deadlines and timescales. Attend pre-start and other departmental meetings as required Keep abreast of all relevant current and forthcoming legislation, ensuring that specifications are up to date. To implement best practice To manage the process of design solutions To conduct value engineering / review plot efficiencies Assist with the preparation of layouts for land viability purposes as necessary Assist the Bid team as and when required on layout design information and planning Prepare and co-ordinate layouts for the submission of planning applications, applications for advertisement consent and applications for amendments to existing planning permissions as necessary and manage them through the planning process. Negotiate and engage with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders, local authorities, parish councils and other consultees and statutory bodies and interest groups to achieve the desired outcome. Liaise with the Land team to secure cost-effective layouts and design solutions. Attend Planning Committees, site visits and public consultation events as necessary. Prepare and co-ordinate relevant material for the submission of applications for the discharge of planning conditions as required. Assist with the preparation of master transfer plans and individual deed' plans Creation, co-ordination and cross referencing of Land Transfer Plans Creation, co-ordination and cross referencing of Management Company Plans Cross referencing of tologrpahical information received against architectural site layouts and review/respond as required. Cross referencing of relevant engineering information received against architectural site layouts and review/respond as required. Cross referencing of relevant of all ecological reports affecting the development protected species surveys and biodiversity implications. Organise tree / vegetation surveys to seasonal works that is required to facilitate development. Prepare site layouts and accommodation schedules. Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us... At Vistry Group, we build more than homes. We develop sustainable communities across all sec
'Recruiting for your future success' Our Client design and make super lightweight portable shipping container, kiosk and van conversions, with a unique focus on a design led approach. Creating interiors to fit a full range of uses from catering kitchens to merchandise and mobile shops, they are looking for a consultative, creative Design Coordinator to join their growing, dynamic business who are changing the face of street food and mobile retailing in the UK. Their offices are based in Great Bromley. Design Coordinator £24-28k Basic Salary (Negotiable DOE) Mon-Fri 9-5 Great Bromley Growing, Family-run Business SolidWorks / Design Engineer / Coordinating Projects / Client Liaison Initiative / Creative / Eye for Detail / Confident Communicator Due to growth, our Client are looking for an individual coordinate the design process for clients post estimate. The successful candidate will be keeping clients up to date with the progress of their project and procurement for it, whilst also working with new clients to creatively modify and draw up their desired product using SolidWorks 3D cad software. Duties (include but are not limited to): Dealing promptly with new sales enquiries, through a proactive, tailored design approach Keep in contact with new and existing customers on the progress of their orders Liaise with the internal teams to ensure the customers' expectations are well managed Ensure all customer contact is documented and followed up upon professionally Use SolidWorks and CAD software to design a tailored brief to suit the needs of the client for proposal Edit and adjust the brief as per the client's requests, providing support and ideas where required, through to sign off of the project and the physical build Highlight any technical issues that arise throughout the project to ensure that a solution is found before build Liaise with the Design Director to ensure briefs are structurally sound, minimizing potential errors for build, achieved within a set time scale. Person Specification: Experience working within a B2B/professional customer service role is desired Degree educated in mechanical engineering or design engineering (or similar) would be extremely advantageous Knowledge of CAD (or working with) is desired Knowledge of SolidWorks strongly desired Professional communicator and relationship builder Strong IT Skills with advanced knowledge of creative software Driving Licence Required: Yes (due to location) LIGHTHOUSE PERSONNEL LTD ARE A RECRUITMENT AGENCY WORKING ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT. PLEASE NOTE WE RECEIVE A LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS PER VACANCY AND UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT RESPOND TO ALL APPLICANTS. THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM US WITHIN A MONTH FROM APPLICATION DATE, IT IS LIKELY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL. If you have been successful, we will contact you by the phone and begin taking you through our step by step recruitment process, doing our upmost to ensure the role is right for you, ascertaining your suitability in the process. This process will all be explained on initial contact.