Senior Engineer

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6288
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry South Central Midlands
• Department: Technical
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Coleshill, West Midlands
• Date Posted: 07.10.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our team within Vistry South Central Midlands, at our Coleshill office. As our Senior Engineer, you will coordinate and manage the engineering due diligence of land acquisitions on behalf of the regional land team and technical teams, ensuring that all abnormal elements are managed and value engineered to ensure best value for the region and our pursuit of land purchase opportunities.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Bachelor of Engineering degree (BEng), or
  • Masters degree in Civil Engineering (MEng), or
  • Equivalent qualifications (HNC/D etc)
  • Experience working within a residential house builder or relevant consultancy
  • In-depth knowledge of the engineering function and its delivery
  • Knowledge or other engineering packages (Geosite, Smart Engineer, Autotrack, Microdrainage, PDS)
  • Understanding of changes to regulations and legislation
  • Strong mathematical and IT ability
  • Able to analyse complex data and critically evaluate plans
  • Good understanding of budget management
  • The ability to visualise and explain design ideas
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Able to work with a high degree of accuracy
  • Decision maker with pragmatic approach to problem solving
  • A self-starter capable of creating and maintaining momentum in projects
• More about the Senior Engineer role...
  • Prepare site acquisition due diligence reports based on Vistry life of site reporting documentation.
  • Procure service records and enquiries for potential developments, ensure that any service constraints are clearly identified and messaged and ensure any pre-development enquiries are undertaken.
  • Procure budget service and diversion quotations as appropriate.
  • Oversee the design and detailing carried out by externally appointed Consulting Engineer's responsible for providing acquisitions designs for Civil Infrastructure, Private plot works and foundations ensuring the consultants are accurately briefed to ensure designs constitute best practice and value.
  • Assess and report on constraints and arising from issues note directly related to engineering such as Ecology, Noise, Archaeology etc and report appropriate mitigation measures to the business having taken appropriate expert advice.
  • Assist in programming and monitoring key dates for potential sites for engineering strategy and information delivery.
  • Obtain acquisition designs for foundations ensuring that designs are as robust and as economic as possible whilst ensuring the business is protected from future abnormal costs.
  • Maintain a continuous process of evaluation of Consultant's designs to ensure that proposals adhere to best practice in value Engineering through the land acquisition process.
  • Liaise with other technical team members and others as necessary to ensure acquisition documentation and reporting is accurate.
  • To assist the technical team with all Engineering related work and manage drawing & design issues as necessary.
  • Preparation of appropriate Health and Safety documentation in line with Vistry LOS procedures
  • To check all drawings that are supplied by consultants in relation to the Civil and Structural Engineering aspects of acquisition designs and provide guidance to external consultants as necessary.
  • Always represent Vistry Housebuilding professionally in both personal appearance and conduct.
  • Attendance to meetings with both internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
  • Managing proposed service enquiries with relative stat providers. Co-ordinating existing services disconnections and diversions where required.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry