Technical Assistant required for a housebuilder in the Durham area. This is a full-time, permanent role.
The Role
Responsibilities include preparing O&M and customer handover documents, assisting with planning applications and condition discharge, and ensuring accuracy while working to tight deadlines.
- Prepare Technical Drawings and collate all supporting information
- Prepare and co-ordinate all technical drawings and supporting information upload and circulated to relevant parties via ViewPoint and hard copies, when necessary, in line with agreed pre-commencement programmes, utilising external consultants where appropriate.
- Undertake detailed assessment, co-ordination and approval of all supporting suppliers and manufacturer’s information
- Ensure structural assessment of all technical drawings is undertaken by an approved consultant
- Create, comment and revise house type drawings, site & legal plans to ensure compliance with technical constraints and issue information to all internal and external teams
- Develop a close relationship with the land team to bring forward new sites and interpret technical information to form a site brief
- Secure Building Regulations/Statutory approvals
- Prepare, submit and secure Building Regulations and Statutory Approvals for developments
- Ensure the timely clearance of Building Regulation and statutory conditions to deliver CML’s in line with build programme/budget
- Provide technical support for all other departments e.g. Land, Planning, Engineering, Design, Commercial, Production, Sales, Customer Service and legal
- Provide resolution of site and other queries in close conjunction with other team members to ensure compliance with the building regulations approved documents
- Support the Design Manager to ensure all relevant technical information is available
- Prepare for, attend, and participate in all necessary internal and external meetings to represent the technical team / wider business, taking notes and actioning tasks
- Produce information for O&M manuals and customer plans for plot completions
- Accuracy of issue and working to tight deadlines and programmes is essential
- Help to collate, prepare and submit various planning application types and discharge relevant conditions in a timely manner
The hours are 8.30am to 5.00pm and the team generally work from home each Monday and also sometimes on a Friday, the rest of the week is site or office based. In addition to a salary of £30,000, the role comes with a car allowance and fuel card too.
The Person
Applicants must have a working knowledge of Revit & AutoCad, and ideally some experience in new house building. A HND/Degree in an Architectural/Technical background is desirable, coupled with a thorough understanding of building regulations and the planning process.
You will be required to attend developments meetings and so own transport is also essential.
Remuneration
£30,000 per annum
This is a permanent position and Corepeople Recruitment Limited will be acting as an employment agency for permanent recruitment on behalf of the client.
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