Assistant Technical Manager

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More About Your Role

As an Assistant Technical Manager, you'll play a key role in supporting senior colleagues to deliver the technical aspects of a diverse portfolio of residential development projects across the Southeast. With a strong pipeline in Kent, you'll regularly travel to sites, collaborate closely with consultants, and spend two days a week with the team at our Gray's Inn Road office in central London. You may also be expected to travel to any of our development sites within the Southeast, which could include Norfolk, Kent, Hertfordshire, and West Sussex. You'll be actively involved in coordinating designs from external consultants, attending design team meetings, and ensuring up-to-date drawings and specifications are shared across the business. This role sits at the heart of our developments and touches every stage from early planning and approvals to handover and completion. You'll contribute to the production of technical information and specifications, ensuring compliance with NHBC standards, building regulations, and CDM regulations. You'll also support local authority approvals such as Building Control, S38 and S104, and assist the Development team in navigating the technical elements of planning submissions. As projects progress, you'll liaise with bodies like the NHBC, Building Control and Local Authorities, managing the flow of information needed for CMLs and completions. You'll also help prepare technical packs for handover to teams across Commercial, Build, Sales and Assets making sure everyone has the detail they need to keep momentum on site.

More About You

You've spent a couple of years working in the PLC housebuilding sector, either as a Technical Coordinator or in a similar role, and you're now looking to broaden your scope and take on more responsibility. You've had hands-on experience with residential projects and understand how the different moving parts come together to deliver homes from layouts and planning to drainage, regulations, and site coordination. You're a natural communicator, someone who can build strong relationships across consultants, local authorities, internal teams and on-site colleagues. You're organised, proactive and solution-focused — confident taking ownership of your workload, but happy to ask questions and collaborate when needed. You'll have a relevant qualification in Construction, Architecture or Engineering, and a solid understanding of how to manage and track technical information. You're comfortable with software like Microsoft Office and other basic Microsoft packages. Ultimately, you're someone who wants to build a meaningful career in residential development, working on projects that go beyond bricks and mortar to deliver real social value.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
• Car allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Excellent holiday package – up to 35 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• Training and development
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us. As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all. We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best. If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team. We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment. By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.