Head of Technical (Crocus)

Vacancy Salary Competitive

Vacancy Location Long Stratton, Norwich, Norfolk

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

Full Time: 37hrs
Proposed Interview Date: 6th-10th February (TBC)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Technical to join Crocus Homes to lead the Technical function within Crocus Homes across numerous developments to ensure these can be delivered on time, to the highest of standards, to an agreed budget and above all, in a safe manner.

Key Responsibilities Include:

Lead on Crocus’ Utility designs by tendering, appointing and managing statutory undertaker or multi utilities companies to ensure coordination and no delays in terms of site deliveries of materials/work.
Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations including designers risk assessments are appropriate and issued to our H&S Consultant and construction team as required.
Always control the quality of drawn information and address any non-compliant issues, through interrogating design from subcontractors and suppliers to remove problems before they reach other team members including the site team (in line with Programme milestones).
Deliver design packages on time and accurately to the wider teams and create your own reporting style that clearly and concisely allows others to monitor progress and against agreed design programme.

Please see the attached Role Profile for a full list of responsibilities

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

Education and Qualifications:

Level 7 Construction or HND in Construction or demonstrable equivalent experience (E).

Experience:

Management experience at a senior level / Head or Director of Technical (E).
Previous demonstrable experience as a senior manager within a volume house builder (E).
Familiarity/experience with COINS (D).
CDM for Principal Designers experience preferred.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people.
Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
Proven ability to plan and programme work methods and build sequence for sites. • Excellent leadership skills with the ability to effectively manage and motivate teams to achieve objectives.
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
Control preliminary costs in accordance with budget.
Excellent organisational and administration skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines.
Ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work on own initiative, with excellent attention to detail.
Proficient IT skills including all Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook).
Committed to diversity and inclusion.

Personal Attributes:

Chartered Membership of a recognised Professional Body preferred (RICS/RIBA/CIAT/CIOB).
Relevant CSCS card or equivalent.
Full UK driving licence.

For more details regarding the role please contact Matt Davidson on 01508 535678

The Company

We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk.

We manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.

We offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.

At Saffron

We have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Saffron to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our tenants. We trust our staff to do the right thing and we are looking for people whose values are aligned with ours (PACE – Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving).

You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.

We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.

As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Community.

Our Strategy

Inspiring Trust

Tenants have told us earning their trust is vital.

Through our Saffron Community Membership we are committed to both understand and transform the way our tenants and their communities feel about Saffron.

We intend to do this by delivering reliable demand-led services and openly involving tenants and their communities in our work.

Inspiring Community

Saffron exists for the benefit of the community.

We are committed to people being able to live independently in warm and affordable homes and see the climate challenge as a great opportunity to renew homes and communities across Norfolk and Suffolk.

By 2030 all our tenants will live in homes that are at least EPC category C and the average SAP rating of their homes will be higher than 80. We intend to be carbon neutral by 2045.

Inspiring Organisation

A place where colleagues can flourish.

To make the biggest impact we need to be an inclusive organisation to work with and work for, motivated by delivering great value for tenants.

By 2050 we intend to become one of the best 10 housing associations to work for, work in partnership with others and before 2030 double our investment in improving homes and communities.