Role Overview
In a Nutshell…
We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join our team within Vistry Cornwall South West, at our Exeter office. As our Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring new projects and development phases progress efficiently from land purchase or contract through to start on site.
The primary focus of this role is to drive the achievement of all key pre construction milestones, ensuring every project achieves its agreed start‑on‑site date.
Working collaboratively across Land, Planning, Technical, Commercial, Build, Sales, and external partners. You will coordinate all pre start activities to ensure projects are fully prepared, risk assessed, commercially validated, and operationally ready. The role requires strong leadership, programme management, and communication skills to align stakeholders, remove blockers, and maintain clear visibility of progress against programme.
A critical part of the role is the ability to find a way when challenges arise. The successful candidate will be expected to think creatively and identify pragmatic, “outside the box” solutions to maintain programme certainty, whether that means carving out enabling works packages, sequencing activities differently, accelerating specific workstreams, or finding alternative approaches to remove blockers and keep the project on track.
The successful candidate will bring a proactive, solution focused approach, ensuring each project is set up for success before handover to the delivery/project teams. They will champion early engagement, drive accountability, and maintain a disciplined approach to governance, documentation, technical compliance, and pre‑start readiness.
We value in person collaboration and team culture, but we’re also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated.
Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you…
1. Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
2. Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
3. Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
4. Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
5. 2 Volunteering days per annum
6. Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
7. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
8. Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
9. Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
10. Share save and share incentive schemes
11. Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…