Role overview
- ID: 2024-5668
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry Kent
- Department: Technical
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: West Malling, Kent
- Date Posted: 20.05.2024
We have a great opportunity for an Engineering Coordinator to join our team within Vistry Kent, at our West Malling office. As our Engineering Coordinator, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge of managing a high performing technical and design team in addition to leading on a number of design/technical housing projects themselves. Reporting to the Head of Technical, they will be tasked with managing the team of design managers on housing sites on the control and coordination of the complete design process with emphasis on securing section agreements involving the management of design consultants, external parties and stakeholders, liaison with the relevant statutory, approval and local authorities, including Clients and Client's representatives.
Applicants will need to prove an enhanced level of technical and construction knowledge, including a good working interpretation of Design Standards, the Building Regulations, Planning Guidance and the funding criteria relevant to the Affordable Housing sector. Candidates will possess the commercial awareness to inform and develop design proposals to maximise design efficiency and profitability within identified approval constraints.
The role provides team members with inclusive responsibility for technical project management, located primarily within the company's head office, but with a requirement to attend site on frequent and extraneous occasions.
We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.
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Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you...
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Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
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Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
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Agile working possible (dependent on role)
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Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Private Healthcare
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Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
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Competitive contributory pension scheme
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Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
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Share incentive schemes
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Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
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In return, what we would like from you...
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Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
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The ability to manage a design and/or technical team
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The ability to work thoroughly and efficiently within a collaborative team environment
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Commitment to delivering information in line with agreed programmes, often in a pressured environment
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An organised and prioritised working discipline dealing and managing tasks effectively and sequentially
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A sound technical understanding of relevant industry guidance, coupled with an aptitude to learn, obtain, and retain information as required within the role
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Relevant Design & Construction experience within a Contracting/Development organisation.
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Professional Qualifications & Development (Degree, HND/HNC, CPD)
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Site based Construction Experience preceding and Design orientated roles
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More about the Engineering Coordinator role...
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Oversee the technical approval process and provide input to secure sectional agreements across all regional projects in a timely manner.
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Manage & Monitor estate completion schedules, registers & bonds.
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Look after Historical sites and finalising bonds/Sectional Agreements and Management Companies.
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Client EOI/ITT/PQQ and Tender Submission support to the new business, pre-contract, and estimating teams.
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Production, Management, and Review of the Design and Pre-Construction Programmes.
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Chair and Organise Periodic Design Team Meetings (DTM), M&E Client Design Meetings, collate and distribute minutes.
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Efficiently Value Engineer Design Proposals in Conjunction with other members of the Project Team.
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Ensure Design and Contractual Standards; Employers Requirements, HQI Information, Addendum Specifications are adhered to during the Design Stages and issue relevant information to the Project Team.
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Manage the Production and Review of Design Information and Details during the Pre-Contract and Construction Phase
Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us...
We're Vistry Group, the UK's leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they're needed most.
You're probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there's nowhere better to build your career. We're proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.
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Benefits
Agile Working
Offers a flexible way of working.
Annual Leave
Enjoy 28 days' holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.
Pension with Legal & General
Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.
Volunteer Days
With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.
Why Vistry
Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.