Engineering Manager

Overview

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 startâonâsite 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 work streams 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 preâstart 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.

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
• Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
• 2 Volunteering days per annum
• Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
• Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
• Share save and share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• Strong knowledge and ability in planning software, ideally Asta Power Project
• Relevant SHE experiences & training
• Advanced knowledge and experience of working in the pre-construction environment
• Construction experience working with a main Contractor preferably a PLC house builder
• Good knowledge of traditional and modern constructions methods
• IT literate – Office 365 preferable
• Viewpoint / Share Point
• Working with many stakeholders and cross-department collaboration
• Strong time management skills with an ability to prioritise
• Able to work under own initiative, having good decision making skills and a keen sense of responsibility
• Ability to visit sites across the Devon & Cornwall region – must have a clean full UK driving licence
• Excellent management and communication skills with the ability to proactively communicate to stakeholders and the ability to deliver quality information within the set timescales
• Professional manner
• Able to work as part of a team as well as autonomously
• Ability to communicate well with individuals at all levels

• Degree/NHC/HND in a Construction/Engineering/Planning related area
• Professionally qualified or working towards a membership of a Professional Body
• Nebosh Construction Certificate or working towards
• Large development delivery
• Consortium/JV arrangements
• Experience of all stages of development including legal, design and planning related activities
• Problem resolution in a timely manner
• Contract Management

• Work in accordance with our Life of Site procedures, collaborating closely with the operational team to produce a comprehensive Construction…