Willmott Dixon is seeking a Technical Lead to work across our offices in Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coleshill, ideally based out of our Birmingham Snowhill office. You will play a key role in providing technical guidance to project teams, ensuring compliance with business and building safety standards. The role supports a hybrid working model with time split between the office, home and occasional on‑site visits with our site teams.
As part of this role you will work on a wide range of construction projects, often including non‑standard and higher risk buildings. Our projects range from £10m to £150m+ across sectors such as Education, Leisure, Blue Light, Commercial, Healthcare and Residential – meaning no two schemes are the same.
Responsibilities
* Build and maintain positive relationships with customers, stakeholders and project teams, and effectively communicate technical solutions and recommendations in accordance with relevant building regulations.
* Facilitate Willmott Dixon’s role as “Principal Designer” and demonstrate the right competencies to be an advisor to project teams.
* Create processes and procedures to review the competency of other members of the team.
* Liaise with Design Managers and the wider design team to ensure they and specialists have provided information and detail to demonstrate compliance requirements of the legislation.
* Ensure that design information is of a consistent high standard, compliant, and deliverable for the project.
* Keep accurate records of conversations and decisions.
* Upon completion of the design, sign as the “Principal Designer” duty holder on behalf of Willmott Dixon.
* Assist sites and respond to questions or items raised through site inspections by others, where required.
* Engage with and mentor our regional design manager community.
Essential and Desirable Criteria
* Hold a Class 2 or Class 3 Building Control accreditation/qualification with previous experience as a Registered Building Inspector RBI (essential).
* Possess a Level D competence across the Building Inspector Competence Framework as required by a Class 3 Building Control Officer and demonstrate the behaviours and ethics appropriate to this level (desirable).
* Enjoy being a team player and active contributor to the projects.
* Full UK Driving Licence (essential).
In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes an enhanced pension scheme, fully discounted private medical insurance for you and a partner, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme that makes us a market leader in sustainable company travel. This role will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low‑carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.
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