Technical Manager
Job description
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Job Purpose
The Technical Manager is responsible for managing the technical design and engineering aspects of residential developments from land acquisition through to completion. The role ensures that all technical information is coordinated, compliant, and delivered on time to support planning, procurement, construction, and customer handover.
Key Responsibilities
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, and buildable.
- Monitor design programmes to ensure key project milestones are achieved.
Planning and Approvals
- Manage planning conditions and discharge 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
- Support the pre-construction and construction teams with technical advice.
- Attend project and design team meetings.
- Resolve technical queries raised during construction.
- Manage design changes while minimising programme and cost impacts.
- Coordinate the release of construction information in line with build programmes.
Risk Management
- Identify and manage technical risks throughout the development lifecycle.
- Ensure compliance with current Building Regulations, the Building Safety Act, NHBC requirements, and health and safety legislation.
- Monitor consultant performance and technical quality standards.
Budget Management
- Control consultant appointments and fees.
- Monitor technical budgets.
- Identify opportunities for value engineering without compromising quality or compliance.
Stakeholder Management
- Develop strong working relationships with internal departments including Land, Commercial, Construction, Sales, Customer Care, and Planning.
- Manage external consultants and specialist contractors.
- Represent the company at meetings with local authorities and statutory bodies.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure technical documentation is complete and accurate.
- Support quality inspections and resolve technical defects.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of technical standards and processes.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Experience in a Technical Manager or Senior Technical Coordinator role within a UK residential house builder.
- Strong understanding of residential construction methods.
- Knowledge of UK Building Regulations, planning legislation, highways, drainage, and utilities.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams.
- Ability to interpret architectural and engineering drawings.
- Excellent project management and organisational skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Full UK driving licence.
Desirable
- Degree or HNC/HND in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related discipline.
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as CIOB, ICE, RICS, or CABE.
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Application advice
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⭐ Open your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly names 'Technical Manager' and 'residential house builder' experience, as the advert lists this as the primary essential criterion.
📊 Quantify your design management scope: e.g. 'Managed technical design across 6 concurrent residential developments totalling 450 units, coordinating 12 external consultants.'
🎯 Dedicate a skills section to regulatory knowledge — call out UK Building Regulations, Building Safety Act, NHBC, and planning legislation by name, as these are explicitly required in the advert.
🏗️ Include a bullet for each key approval type you have secured (highways, drainage, utilities, environmental consents) to demonstrate breadth across the statutory approvals process.
💰 Highlight any value engineering achievements with a cost saving figure, as the advert specifically asks for budget management and value engineering experience.
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- •Managed technical design delivery across 5 concurrent residential developments totalling 380 units, coordinating 10 external consultants and achieving zero planning condition discharge delays over 18 months.
- •Secured highways, drainage, and environmental statutory approvals for a 200-unit scheme, reducing pre-construction programme by 6 weeks through proactive liaison with the local authority and utility providers.
- •Identified value engineering solutions on foundation and drainage specifications across 3 sites, delivering £140,000 in cost savings while maintaining full NHBC and Building Regulations compliance.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
JOB SWITCH LTD's Technical Manager role in North Yorkshire aligns directly with my background in residential development design management. Having coordinated multidisciplinary consultant teams and managed the full statutory approvals process — including Building Regulations, highways, drainage, and NHBC compliance — across multiple concurrent sites, I am confident I can deliver the technical rigour this position demands.
My background in residential house building has given me hands-on experience discharging planning conditions, managing design programmes, and resolving technical queries during construction to protect both programme and budget. I have a strong track record of identifying value engineering opportunities while maintaining full compliance with the Building Safety Act and current planning legislation.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you manage the discharge of planning conditions across multiple residential sites simultaneously.
- ›How do you ensure construction information is released in line with build programmes when design changes occur late in the process?
- ›Describe your approach to managing compliance with the Building Safety Act on a residential development.
- ›What processes do you use to monitor consultant performance and maintain technical quality standards?
- ›How do you identify and mitigate technical risks during the pre-construction phase of a residential development?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you resolved a significant technical query raised during construction that threatened the programme.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage a difficult external consultant who was underperforming — what did you do?
- ›Give an example of when you identified a value engineering opportunity that saved cost without compromising quality or compliance.
- ›Tell me about a time you had to coordinate multiple internal departments (e.g. Land, Commercial, Construction) to resolve a technical issue.
- ›Describe a situation where a design change had a significant impact on programme and budget — how did you manage it?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you resolved a significant technical query raised during construction that threatened the programme.
Give an example of when you identified a value engineering opportunity that saved cost without compromising quality or compliance.