Job Ref: 215800429

Date: 2022-02-11 17:12:01

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The Vacancy

Do you have passion and drive for adding value to a business that has a strong social purpose to help Do you have passion people find a home?

About the role

This is a permanent full time (37 hrs p/w Mon-Fri) role for an experienced Design and Quality Manager (Pre-Contract) to join our Design and Quality Team within the Development Directorate on a permanent Contract.

This is a new role created recognising the need for a dedicated technical role at pre-contract stage for our growing pipeline of S106 as well as land and package deals.

As Design and Quality Manager (Pre-Contract), you will be an integral member of a team of 6, reporting to the Head of Design and Quality and working alongside our Land and New Business Team to provide design and quality support from inception through to hand over to the delivery team on S106, land led and package deals.

Leading the review and/or commission of technical reports necessary, including setting the scope of works and services of the professional design team. Manage a multi-disciplinary professional design team focussed on quality of design and place as well as build.

Undertaking relevant technical due diligence, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring schemes meet Paradigm Housing Group’s design and quality standards, clearly identifying any divergence.

Manage our established frameworks of Principal Designers (PD) and Clerk of Works (COW) and appoint other consultants as required.

Where appropriate, manage the design and specification of new homes so as to represent good value for money in terms of their capital costs and lifecycle costs ensuring quality in design, place, and build.

You will be liaising with external housebuilders, Developers, contractors, and consultants; customers and colleagues within Paradigm, Homes England, GLA; and Local Authority partners

About you

We are looking for someone who is thorough, organised, and methodical, with a sound understanding and experience of commercial viability in projects and a value and solutions driven approach to work. With demonstrable experience and ability to carry out due diligence and technical appraisals, demonstrating adherence to best practice as defined by company processes and procedures to join the team.

You should be able to visit site where required as part of the role and attend meetings with other relevant parties involved in a project.

Working via a mixture of office, remote and homeworking, you will actively participate in pre-construction meetings as required liaising with internal and external stakeholders in ensuring that schemes meet Paradigm’s standards and requirements.

Our ideal candidate has:

Recognized qualification in the built environment to degree or HND and above
Membership of relevant professional body such as: ICE, IStructE, RICS, CIBSE, or RIBA
A sound understanding of the design process, project technical requirements and overall development process
A sound understanding and experience of commercial viability in projects and a value and solutions driven approach to work
Ability to review scheme designs against Paradigm’s Design Standards, Homes England and other relevant regulations and standards
Significant and proven experience of building construction both theoretical and practical
Strong knowledge of Building Regulations and technical warranty standards
Minimum of IOSH Managing Health & Safety qualification or equivalent
Strong communication and influencing skills

About us

We are a values’ driven, ambitious organisation. We’re Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. We are clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions
Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
Annual Bonus potential
Professional Sponsorship Scheme (subject to conditions) and professional subscriptions paid
Family Friendly policies incl. generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
Remote / hybrid working
Up to 3 paid Volunteer days a year
Newly created modern offices collaborative offices, with free parking and charging points for electric vehicles
Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
Rewards platform
Opportunities for career advancement –
Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.

Further information

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (url removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

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The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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