Assistant Design & Technical Coordinator - 7754 in Manchester

Contract Type: FTC, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary: Starting from £35,323 per annum, dependant on experience

Reporting Office: Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Site Based Worker – contractual hours to be worked from allocated site(s), with ad hoc office attendance as required

Closing Date: 12th of May 2026 at 23:00

Interviews will be held in person – date TBC

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Your impact in the role: You’ll play an important supporting role in the successful delivery of technically compliant and well-coordinated housing projects. Working as part of the Design & Technical Team, you will:

• Support Technical Managers in managing the design process for allocated projects, ensuring design and technical issues are resolved within agreed resource allowances.
• Assist with the appointment, coordination, and ongoing management of external consultants.
• Review consultant tenders and support quality assurance of drawn and technical information.
• Coordinate information flow and data management to support reporting and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Attend and contribute to Design Team Meetings, ensuring actions and information are clearly captured and followed through.
• Liaise with internal teams and external partners to ensure projects meet agreed objectives, timescales, and regulatory requirements.
• Support health and safety risk appraisals and ensure developments comply with Building Regulations and relevant technical standards.

By supporting the design progression from inception through completion, you’ll help ensure L&Q delivers safe, sustainable, and high-quality homes.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working on residential development projects within a contractor, developer, or housing environment.
• Understanding of the technical design process and the full development lifecycle.
• Experience coordinating consultants and managing deadlines across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to review and check the quality and accuracy of technical and drawn information.
• Knowledge of Building Regulations and awareness of renewable technologies.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with attention to detail and an understanding of programme management.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with consultants, site teams, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.
• IT skills including AutoCAD, Word, Excel, and email (experience with project planning tools is desirable).
• Educated to degree level or equivalent or working towards a relevant professional qualification (desirable).

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q: We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do. When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.