Engineering Manager - Stockton Tees, TSSH

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Job Summary

As an Engineering Manager, you will oversee all pre-construction and construction engineering functions, ensuring technical excellence, cost-efficiency, and compliance across infrastructure, utilities, and groundworks. You will be a key liaison between planning, local authorities, utility providers, design consultants, contractors, and site teams. The role ranges from initial viability exercises, detailed development design, gaining technical consent and providing advice to all other departments as well as key external stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

Health, Safety & Environment

• Clear understanding of CDM, BSA, Health, Safety and Environmental regulations and demonstrate a working knowledge of how these should be implemented into designs and site delivery
• Discharge the Designers’ responsibilities under CDM regulations
• Maintain a good understanding of environmental and ecological constraints and ensure that appropriate mitigation is undertaken and relevant permits and licenses obtained
• Preparation, monitoring and reporting of Surface Water Management Plans
• Preparation and supervision of Material Management Plans
• Support the Technical team on all aspects of implementation of Taylor Wimpey CDM, EMS and BSA processes and procedures

Land and Planning

• Knowledge and understanding of the planning process, changes in legislation and policies impacting the engineering function
• Secure planning approval for value engineered commercially viable and compliant schemes
• Ensure planning applications are optimised and meet the needs of our customers and all areas of the business
• Contribute to land appraisals by providing technical input on constraints, abnormal costs, and engineering solutions.
• Contribute to site specific planning, technical and commercial land viability reports
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the importance of viability in the negotiation and delivery of development

Pre
- Development Management

• Scope, tender and appoint competent consultant teams to prepare planning, technical applications and construction drawings
• Manage external engineering consultants, ensuring deliverables are issued on time, to scope, and within budget.
• Review and approve civil engineering designs, including road, drainage, levels, and external works
• Undertake value engineering reviews of infrastructure and engineering designs to identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality or compliance
• Monitor and manage technical risks, including ground conditions and abnormal costs
• Apply for and manage new and existing utility connections (gas, water, electricity, telecoms) across all development sites
• A thorough and up to date knowledge of technical and regulatory requirements related to residential construction
• Procure technical approval for highways, drainage and utilities.
• Manage all aspects of Section 38, Section 278, and Section 104 Agreements.
• Co-ordinate and manage key relationships with utility companies, highways authorities, water companies and the Environment Agency on engineering matters
• Track progress of technical approvals and ensure all conditions are met for sign-off and bond release.
• Ensure all Information is available for project milestone…