Engineer / Closing Out Manager

We are looking for an Engineer/Closing Out Manager to join our team on a fixed term contract to the end of February 2027. This post will manage developments in the North East of England. Duties will include:

• Ensure compliance with planning conditions discharge
• Coordinate layout and plot amendments
• Liaise with consultants, suppliers, and manufacturers to ensure preparation of technical support information
• Appoint, brief, challenge, assist and manage consulting engineers and other external consultants and agencies in the delivery of cost-effective design solutions
• Actively manage external consultants to ensure that all development technical information is received, coordinated, checked for purpose and efficiency and distributed on time and within budget, liaising closely with Group support teams
• Support the construction teams ensuring the plots meet quality standards and NHBC cover requirements.
• Manage drainage and highways adoption processes
• Oversee utility services
• Ensure that all drawings / details meet with Local Authority and NHBC requirements
• Lead and chair monthly Project Team Meetings up to the point of groundworks tender pack issue, then provide handover of these meetings to the Commercial Department
• Manage the technical fee budgets
• Coordinate the communication and distribution of design drawings and specifications to the wider business
• Prepare and maintain project delivery, implementing 'stop gate' milestones and control programmes and maintain tracking documents for the monitoring of progress and for use in providing status reports to the Head of Technical and business Senior Management Team
  
  Commercial awareness and accurate interpretation of design drawings
• Able to prepare, manage and maintain Adoption fees, costs and budgets
• Ability to work to deadlines and meet programme timescales
• Attention to detail when analysing historic matters, including supporting customer care issues
• Able to recognise problems and solve them in a positive, timely and cost effective manner
• Proven negotiation skills
  
  Bringing together two trusted housebuilding brands, Tilia Homes and Hopkins Homes, untypical aims to make a positive difference to the UK housebuilding market and help to provide greater access to homes which are affordable for buyers.
  
  Guided by an innovative approach and a commitment to excellence, untypical focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive communities, delivering homes across the UK that people want to live in and are good for the planet.
Our people are at the heart of what we do and in order for us to succeed in becoming the UK's most customer-centric housebuilder, we are looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. Our benefits package includes:
• Car allowance
• 26 days holiday with additional bank holidays
• Holiday Buy Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme, Guided by an innovative approach and a commitment to excellence, untypical focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive communities, delivering homes across the UK that people want to live in and are good for the planet.
Our people are at the heart of what we do and in order for us to succeed in becoming the UK's most customer-centric housebuilder.