Help Shape the Homes of the Future
Are you organised, curious, and passionate about delivering high-quality homes? Do you enjoy working with technical information, solving problems, and building strong relationships with a wide range of people?
We're looking for a Development Technical Officer to join our Development team and play an important role in supporting the delivery of our ambitious new homes programme. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to grow their technical knowledge and develop a long-term career within the housing and development sector.
Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll help ensure our developments meet legislative requirements, industry best practice, and Abri's quality standards, while contributing to continuous improvement across our development programme.
What You'll Be Doing:
As our Development Technical Officer, you'll support the Development Technical Manager and wider Development team across a varied and interesting range of responsibilities, including:
- Providing technical support and guidance to Development, New Business, Sales, Programme Delivery and Customer Care teams.
- Supporting the management of defect rectification projects, helping to coordinate contractors and ensure works are completed to a high standard.
- Attend site visits and benchmarks to ensure the quality of products and workmanship are in line with manufacturers guidelines and specifications
- Reviewing technical and contractual documentation and helping identify and manage potential risks.
- Assisting with post-contract matters, including planning conditions, Section agreements, audits and compliance requirements.
- Building positive relationships with internal teams, consultants, contractors and other stakeholders.
- Supporting the development of works and services frameworks alongside Procurement colleagues.
- Attending meetings with contractors, project managers and employer's agents.
- Keeping up to date with changes in legislation, building regulations and industry best practice.
What you’ll need:
- A basic understanding and a keen interest of the development, construction, housing or property sector.
- Experience of working in a busy administrative, technical or project-based environment.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook.
- The ability to analyse information, identify solutions and communicate effectively with different audiences.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads effectively.
- A proactive and customer-focused approach.
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- A willingness to continuously develop your professional knowledge and skills.
- Ability to understand basic written details and drawings
Essential Development Requirement
This role offers an excellent opportunity to build a long-term career within Development. As part of your professional development, you will be required to undertake and successfully complete the relevant RICS-accredited qualification pathway, supported by Abri through a combination of on-the-job learning, formal training and mentoring.
For more information, be sure to take a look at the job description below.
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Who we are
Abri is a large housing provider who own and manage more than 58,000 homes and various community assets, serving around 113,000 customers across the South of England.
We believe everyone has the right to a good quality safe, warm and sustainable home in a community where they can belong, grow and thrive. What does that look like in real terms?
We’re investing £689m over the next ten years in our existing homes to improve building safety and make them more energy efficient.
- We’re delivering 10,000 homes by 2030, ensuring affordable housing is built where it’s needed most
- We’re investing in our communities, to address local issues and create opportunities for everyone
As we grow, we’re re-establishing our strong local presence to provide a really good service. Abri has adopted a regional approach to service delivery, with our operating areas split into three, each with their local governance and leadership. This will ensure our colleagues are more visible, accountable and better connected to our customers and local communities to meet their diverse needs.
More information about Abri and our strategic objectives can be found at www.abri.co.uk.
What you can expect
What you can expect
28 days holiday + the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
Generous pension scheme with contributions up to 10%
Money off tons of high street and online retailers
Life assurance of 5x your annual salary
Generous parental and family leave
Health and wellbeing packages
Flexible working
Free eye tests
Cycle to Work scheme
About you
We’ve all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It’s these shared values that bring us together as one team.
Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.
We also expect our colleagues to share Abri’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you’re on to a winner and we’d love to hear from you!
Be yourself
We’re committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We welcome and respect the individual differences, life experiences and knowledge that all our colleagues bring into the workplace, and we value their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.
Customer Positive
We welcome applications from Abri customers and we provide an opportunity for applicants to let us know if they are a customer as part of the application process. When customers meet the essential criteria of the role, we will commit to interview at least two customers as part of our Customer Positive scheme.
Flexible working
We recognise the benefits flexible working can bring and we aim to support colleagues who need to work flexibly wherever we can, provided the needs of both Abri and the colleague can be met. Please feel free to let us know about any flexibility you might need when applying for this role. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to consider it fully.
To our agency friends
We already have a number of carefully selected agency partners who know our business well and who support our in-house recruitment team during exceptionally busy periods. We’re not looking to add to our preferred supplier list right now but if you’d like to be considered at a future date please don’t hesitate to register on our procurement portal.
Development Technical Officer in Eastleigh employer: Abri
At Abri, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer dedicated to creating safer homes and fostering a supportive work environment. Our commitment to employee development is evident through our focus on mentoring and training future talent, ensuring that every team member has the opportunity to grow and thrive. With a generous benefits package, flexible working options, and a strong emphasis on community engagement, joining our Safer Homes team means making a meaningful impact while enjoying a fulfilling career.
