Development Engineer Housing

Location: Ipswich

Duration: Permanent

Salary: Up to £50,000 + car, bonus, pension and healthcare

A leading national house builder is looking to recruit a Development Engineer to work from their Ipswich office.

The role:

Based within the Technical Department, the role will be to provide engineering design and maintain technical support to all regional departments and site-based teams to enable the region to achieve its objectives and agreed goals.

Duties:

• Provide Engineering support and technical guidance for regional site and office-based operations.
• Provide Engineering Support in respect of planning applications.
• Provide Engineering Information for land viability purposes.
• Instruct, supervise and monitor engineering consultants for various surveys and structural/civil engineering designs as required.
• Ensure compliance with Building Regulations and Statutory Authorities.
• Provide support in relation to demolition, site clearance, road and sewer infrastructure works, utilities, external works and other construction-related matters on a variety of residential housing developments.

Engineering and Design:

• Assistance in the preparation of Land Appraisal Viabilities.
• Interpret Geotechnical and Environmental Reports.
• Prepare design solutions for initial road and sewer infrastructure.
• Satisfactorily resolve engineering issues as part of planning application.
• Finalise plot floor levels and ensure efficiencies of external level designs.
• Co-ordinate and manage external consultants to resolve engineering issues in order to allow planning consents to be issued.
• Interact closely with design and planning team to deliver planning consents.
• Manage consultants in the preparation of infrastructure, foundation, plot drainage and external level designs.
• Monitor and resolve any Building Regulation/CML issues.
• Manage and co-ordinate remediation strategies and ensure regulatory approvals are obtained.
• Ensure all information is available for Pre-Start Meetings.
• Ensure all engineering drawings for start on site including infrastructure, foundations and any remediation proposals.
• Secure necessary technical approval for roads and sewers designs.
• Provide all utility drawings of existing, proposed and diversions including obtaining competitive quotations from utility providers.
• Procurement and co-ordination of off-site service reinforcement, diversions, substations, gas governors plot connections etc. and ensure all legal agreements are completed.
• Obtain street lighting designs and procure new postal addresses and agreeing street name plate specifications and locations.
• Produce designs in agreed timescales to ensure regional targets are achieved.
• Understand the commercial aspects of design decisions.
• Liaise with Local Authority Building Control to resolve technical and design issues.
• Attend Project Team, Health and Safety, Site and any other relevant meetings as required.
• Must be able to communicate well with all departments and levels.
• Ensure all technical approvals/agreements for section 38, 278, 104 and 185 agreements are secured.
• Undertake regular site visits and provide on-site support for construction-related activities.

Health and Safety/CDM:

• Understand and promote Health and Safety.
• Collate Pre-Construction Information Packs and Information for Health And Safety Plans.
• Understand the Designers responsibilities under the latest CDM regulations.
• Undertake the Principal Designer Role.
• Must undertake continuous professional development.

The Company:

A privately owned national house builder who are one of the largest in the UK. They operate from 24 regional offices across the United Kingdom. They build properties, from one and two-bedroom apartments to detached and five-bedroom houses with a broad price range including both affordable and private homes.

The Person:

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to visualise a problem and solve it.
• Good communication skills.
• Commercial Awareness.
• Good Negotiation Skills.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timescales.
• Uses Own initiative.

Experience:

• Computer literate with an excellent knowledge of AutoCAD, Excel and Word.
• Building Regulations Legislation.
• Health and Safety Regulations.
• Experience of engineering and development within the housebuilding industry.
• Engineering related qualification with minimum HNC.