Title: Technical Manager
Location: Remote with regular travel across the South of England
Hours: 37.5 per week (9am-5pm)
Salary: Circa £60,000 per annum DOE + £6,200 car allowance
Contract: Permanent
Join us as Technical Manager and deliver high-quality residential developments across the South of England!
As Technical Manager, you’ll play a key role in turning ideas into high-quality, sustainable homes. Acting as the technical lead on a range of projects, you’ll bring together design, commercial insight, and regulatory expertise to ensure successful delivery from early appraisal through to pre-contract stages.
What you’ll do:
1. Providing design & technical leadership to the Development team across multiple projects
2. Managing pre-contract design, ensuring alignment with Anchor’s standards, requirements, and financial objectives
3. Carrying out commercial reviews at appraisal and development stages, including cost plans, value engineering, and risk assessments
4. Contributing to and reviewing Employer’s Requirements and Specifications to meet quality, compliance, and stakeholder needs
5. Keeping up to date with design innovation, new products, construction techniques, and regulatory changes
6. Working closely with internal teams, consultants, and external stakeholders to drive best practice
7. Monitoring consultant performance to ensure outputs meet Anchor’s expectations
About You:
8. A strong track record of delivering residential projects, with in-depth knowledge of Planning, Building Regulations, and construction standards
9. Experience in residential and/or retirement housing design and delivery
10. A solid understanding of stakeholder needs, both internal and external
11. Familiarity with QA procedures, including CDM Regulations
12. Strong commercial awareness, including cost plan analysis and contractual conditions
13. Proven risk management skills across design, cost, and delivery
14. An appreciation of the housing and care needs of older people (desirable, but not essential)
Anchor is the largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people in England, and we’re on an ambitious journey. Our Development Strategy will deliver 5,700 new homes over the next decade, with exciting new build, regeneration, and partnership projects already underway.
If you’re passionate about high-quality housing, collaborative working, and shaping places people truly love to live in, apply today!
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
Our values
Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.
Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.
Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
15. Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
16. Mental health support
17. Flexible working options
18. Access to online GP appointments
Finance
19. Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
20. Quick and easy pension transfer service
21. Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
22. Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
23. Free Blue Light Card
Career
24. Ongoing personal and professional development programme
25. Leadership Pathways online learning resources
26. Career progression and promotion opportunities
To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated Please follow the link or copy and paste
Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.