Technical Manager – Residential Developments

Job Purpose

Are you an experienced Technical Manager seeking an interim opportunity to make an immediate impact on high-quality residential developments? This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of technical design and engineering delivery across multiple schemes, supporting projects from land acquisition through to completion. You will play a key role in ensuring designs are coordinated, compliant, commercially viable and buildable, helping to keep programmes on track and developments moving successfully through planning, procurement, construction and customer handover.

What You'll Be Doing

Design Management

• Manage the technical design process for multiple residential developments.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, surveyors, landscape architects, and specialist consultants.
• Review and approve technical drawings and specifications.
• Ensure designs are practical, cost-effective, compliant and buildable.
• Monitor design programmes to ensure key project milestones are achieved.

Planning and Approvals

• Manage planning conditions and the discharge of relevant requirements.
• Obtain statutory approvals including Building Regulations, highways, drainage, utilities, and environmental consents.
• Liaise with local authorities, utility providers, and statutory bodies.
• Ensure developments comply with current legislation and planning obligations.

Project Delivery

• Provide technical advice and support to pre-construction and construction teams.
• Attend project and design team meetings.
• Resolve technical queries raised during construction.
• Manage design changes while minimising programme and cost impacts.

What We're Looking For

• A proven Technical Manager or senior technical professional with experience gained within a UK residential housebuilder environment.
• Strong knowledge of residential construction methods and technical design processes.
• Solid Understanding of UK Building Regulations, planning legislation and statutory approvals, including highways, drainage and utilities.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and external consultants.
• Ability to review, interpret, and coordinate architectural and engineering drawings
• Strong project management, organisational and time management skills, with the ability to keep multiple workstreams moving.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with internal teams, consultants, local authorities, statutory bodies and other stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness, including experience managing technical budgets and identifying value engineering opportunities.
• Proven ability to identify and manage technical risks across projects
• Close attention to detail with a focus on quality assurance and compliance
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• Leadership and teamwork skills, with a customer-focused approach
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to sites as required.

Desirable:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering, Construction, Architecture or a related discipline.
• Membership of a professional body (e.g. CIOB, ICE, RICS, CABE)
• Experience with Section 38, Section 104, Section 278 and utility adoption agreements.

If you are an experienced Technical Manager with strong residential development knowledge, technical confidence, and a proactive approach to project delivery, we would like to hear from you.

Diamond Blaque is acting as an employment business for this vacancy. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.