This Opportunity
Grõ Careers is partnered exclusively with a design-led residential developer hiring a Senior Architect / Technologist into a Technical Manager role, taking ownership of construction-stage delivery on beautifully designed bespoke properties.
This is an exceptionally rare opportunity to transition out of traditional practice!
From post-planning through to key structural milestones on site. You’ll be the person who keeps the build flowing in a client-facing management position.
What Makes This Different
This business delivers high-quality, architect-designed one-off homes in exceptional locations across the UK, and now internationally.
You’ll be Glasgow-based (hybrid), but regularly out on site - solving problems, aligning parties, and protecting the client experience.
This is a role for someone who wants to:
* step out of “traditional practice”
* keep their architectural brain switched on
* own delivery at the point it matters most
* build relationships with clients, contractors, and suppliers
* bring structure, confidence and calm to a fast-moving delivery environment
The Real Deliverables
This is not a concept role.
Your impact is measured by how effectively you:
* programme and coordinate construction start dates and key structural milestones across multiple projects
* manage supplier and contractor interfaces so sites run smoothly
* answer technical queries fast, clearly, and decisively
* keep clients confident and calm during construction
* maintain standards and quality whilst managing a small multi-disciplinary team
* bring order and predictability to a process that can otherwise feel chaotic
The business delivers c. 20 projects per year, with 4-6 live projects under direct oversight at any one time, plus broader oversight of others as they come to site.
Site visits average once a fortnight - achievable within the day.
What You’ll Do
You’ll sit at the centre of delivery, acting as the technical authority and coordination lead.
Expect to:
* manage a small technical team day-to-day
* coordinate construction packages with architects, engineers, subcontractors and suppliers
* own programming and communication during the key structural windows
* conduct site inspections for compliance, build quality and issue resolution
* handle technical and construction queries from clients + contractors
* progress reporting to senior leadership
* improve quality control and standardisation over time
* strengthen and expand the contractor / supply-chain network
The Profile That Thrives Here
You’re likely a strong fit if you are:
* an experienced architect or architectural technologist with serious delivery maturity
* comfortable operating from stage 4 onwards, with real construction-phase confidence
* used to being the person who “holds the whole thing together”
* calm and authoritative with contractors - but kind, human, and reassuring with clients
* commercially minded
* strong at programme, priorities, and supplier coordination
* happy to be hands-on in problem solving (sketching/details/rapid resolution) without needing to be in a production role
* Entrepreneurial, looking for an opportunity to play an integral role in a rapidly expanding organisation.
Experience with timber / off-site / MMC is highly attractive - but not a dealbreaker if you’ve delivered bespoke residential projects through comparable systems and can learn quickly.
Revit is desirable (you’ll be working alongside a Revit-capable technical team), but the role is primarily about leadership, coordination and delivery rather than sitting in the model.
Package & Practical's
* Attractive bonus structure: £5k-£10k+ linked to delivery outcomes and business activity (realistic strong-performer total c. £60k-£65k, with additional upside as the business scales)
* Hybrid: 3 days Glasgow office / 2 days home
* 35 days holiday (incl. bank holidays)
* Business travel support provided for site visits
This Is For You If…
You’re an individual who:
* is entrepreneurial by nature
* wants to be measured by outcomes
* wants client-side responsibility without losing the technical depth
* enjoys solving real problems, under real constraints
* wants autonomy, trust, and a genuinely influential seat in a growing business
Apply (Exclusively Via Grõ Careers)
If you want a rare move out of traditional practice into a delivery-led, technically authoritative role - message Grõ Careers for a confidential conversation and send your CV / portfolio.
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