Design Technical and Quality Manager WCC620062

Job Details:

This vacancy is being managed by recruitment agency Goodman Masson. All candidates will need to apply via this route. Please follow the link to find out all the details for the role: https://www.westminstercitycouncilcareers.com/the-roles

Salary range: £54,684 - £74,487 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary for 18 months 
Closing date: 10 April 2025 
Interview date: 22 and 23 April 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE POWER OF LISTENING

Regeneration, Economy and Planning in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where little things can have a huge impact on people’s lives.

Take Mitin, our Head of Estates Services. Mitin’s team is responsible for cleaning, gardening and bulk refuse removal across several housing estates where many of our residents require a greater degree of assistance. It’s not just about keeping our blocks and estates shipshape, it’s about human contact and letting residents know that we care.

Mitin’s team contribute to our Smart City commitment and make full use of new technology to help track and solve problems such as fly tipping and graffiti. But what many residents value most is his ability to listen. For example, when residents were telling him about carrying out gardening improvements and the positive impact that it has on their wellbeing, he and his team engaged with residents, working closely with them to give them garden areas they could be proud of and a vibrant community.

Mitin is immensely proud of the relationships he’s built with residents, not only because it helps them feel proud of where they live in a greener and cleaner city, but because it makes him proud of where he works.

The Role:

As a Technical Design and Quality Manager, you can make your own powerful contribution to  one of London’s flagship housing development programmes. Your expertise and knowledge will be needed to ensure consistent design quality and sustainability standards across the portfolio. You’ll be contributing to project risk management decisions, preparing the team for the latest technical changes and legislation, such as the Future Homes Standards and the Building Safety Act using your applied knowledge, working with project and client teams to ensure smooth transition of technical design and quality issues at completion.

Expect to be a key part of the quality feedback loop, facilitating the evaluations from the resident and client teams to shape the front-end design of the development pipeline on items such as renewable energy. Your key responsibilities will also include supporting the team on all technical and design issues, ensuring clear client standards and monitoring, and collaborating with project teams ensuring standardisation of requirements.

Advising on technical design aspects to achieve net zero homes and other building requirements, integrating a continuous review approach and liaising with external consultants and internal teams to anticipate future needs of homes will also be key parts of your role. 

Be prepared to also deputise for the Director of Strategy and Director of Delivery and Operations within the Regeneration and Development Department on technical, design and quality issues as requested. In addition to that, you will also hold responsibilities as a part of the wider team. These include managing relationships with all stakeholders, setting high standards for yourself and others, leading and supporting staff, facilitate collaboration within the team, reviewing and reporting when required, and negotiating with supply chain partners, to name a few. As a service, the Regeneration and Development Department Team require a physical presence in the office 3-4 days a week for this role enabling support to the team and site visits where necessary.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

You will need a strong proven track record of managing the design development process on residential developments, ensuring the design process complies to all current legislation, and inspecting design quality. A keen interest in assessing the useability of the homes with residents is important for this role. Demonstrating an ability to keep up to date with the latest changes and translating this into practical standards and guidance for the team is crucial. 

Having a strong work ethic, a passion for delivering exceptional customer service, excellent communication skills and an ability to stay organized are all criteria that will keep you on top of this role. You should also be an export on things like energy heating plans, with the ability to future proof these at post-occupancy and pre-construction stages. 

Being able to demonstrate a credible track record of design development, new homes delivery and understanding of housing management is very important.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority ( GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'  (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

This vacancy is being managed by recruitment agency Goodman Masson. All candidates will need to apply via this route. Please follow the link to find out all the details for the role: https://www.westminstercitycouncilcareers.com/the-roles