Sector: Construction and Building Services
Role: Director
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
The Vacancy
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR CONSTRUCTION
Wates are looking for a Technical Director to join our Construction team focusing on our MOJ projects across multiple locations.
If you are passionate about supporting our onsite teams and looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.
This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Technical Directors are a valuable part of our leadership team, providing technical leadership and strategy for our MOJ Construction Business. Being accountable for the regional technical disciplines including design, planning, engineering, quality, digital construction and information management throughout work winning, pre-construction and construction.
AS OUR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR YOU WILL:
* Oversee technical teams, including workforce planning, performance management, and employee engagement.
* Assist with design strategies, procurement, and project delivery, while ensuring technical compliance and resolving legacy issues.
* Promote digital construction tools and ensure design management procedures are effective and consistently applied.
* Enhance business unit productivity through modern construction methods and collaborating with other disciplines for continuous improvement.
ABOUT YOU:
Ideally, you will have a strong understanding of building practices and techniques and possess in-depth knowledge of the design process, including the RIBA Plan of Works and BSRIA guidance. A comprehensive understanding of relevant legislation, regulations, policies, and technical guidance, including regional variations such as The London Plan. Familiarity with different procurement routes and their associated risks and opportunities is required, along with a good grasp of contractual obligations through contracts like JCT D&B, NEC, and traditional contracts. Additionally, be able to demonstrate commercial awareness, business acumen, and the ability to balance cost, compliance, and quality to achieve exemplary outcomes.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Competitive salary & bonus
* Flexible working
* Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
* Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
* Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers' contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
* Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression
* Industry leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link here.
Wates are committed to the fair treatment of people with criminal records, including employees and potential employees. We ensure that our recruitment, promotion, and retention activity does not treat people less favourably because of an offending background.
Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo an Enhanced and Barred Lists Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.
To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:
Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Company
We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors.
At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. We need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen and we are always looking for talented people from all walks of life to reflect the diverse communities where we work.
There’s a huge variety of job opportunities across our businesses, working on challenging and exciting projects for customers across both the public and the private sector. No two days are ever the same.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organisation which invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.
Our Guiding Framework
Our Guiding Framework shapes everything we do. It incorporates our driving purpose, it outlines the behaviours we work by, and the goals we are all working together to achieve. These are our values and vision.
As a family-owned business, we know it’s our people who make us successful. And just as in a family, everyone should feel welcome, included, and connected at Wates. We strive to be an organisation where everyone loves to work and to provide a safe space where everyone can be themselves.
Wates Together
Our Diversity and Inclusion plan is our long-term blueprint to create a business where everyone is welcomed, included and connected. We call this #WatesTogether.
Inclusion and Diversity
We are committed to building an organisation which is more representative of the communities we serve, offering equality of opportunities to diverse talent and an inclusive work environment where this talent thrives. We have set ourselves bold targets that will take time to achieve, but we are moving in the right direction and we are committed to achieving sustainable change.
Social Value
Our approach to social value is rooted in our belief that how we do business, is as important as what we do. Our programmes and activities are focused on creating work and training opportunities, particularly for people furthest away from the workforce, such as care leavers, ex-offenders and ex Services personnel; building sustainable communities through employment, skills and awareness, and advocacy of trade with the social enterprise sector.
Environmental Sustainability
The Wates Group is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and we’re working to eliminate carbon from our operations by 2025.
We’re committed to having a workforce that more accurately reflects society and providing an environment that positively encourages flexible working through working arrangements and benefits. Following the introduction of sector-leading Family Leave Policies in 2020, we have become one of the first construction companies to support flexible working across every part of our business, including for site-based employees. By 2025, we intend all our roles to be flexible, and we already advertise all new vacancies as flexible.
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