Closing Out Manager - Housebuilding

Tilia Homes are an ambitious, customer focused housebuilder that put people and the planet at the heart of everything we do. We're dedicated to delivering the best possible standards in design, build quality, and service for our customers. We’re looking for talented and enthusiastic individuals who will share this passion, to join our team. This is a fixed term contract to the end of March 2027. We have an opportunity for a Closing Out Manager to join a friendly team at Tilia Homes and based at our Northern office in Warrington on a fixed term contract until March 2027, The post will manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the development process concerning architectural and engineering activities and technical solutions/efficiencies for the business. It deals with technical and design issues that arise on site, working closely with all other functional teams in the business.

Duties include:

• Ensure compliance with planning conditions discharge
• Coordinate layout and plot amendments
• Liaise with consultants, suppliers, and manufacturers to ensure preparation of technical support information
• Appoint, brief, challenge, assist and manage consulting engineers and other external consultants and agencies in the delivery of cost-effective design solutions
• Actively manage external consultants to ensure that all development technical information is received, coordinated, checked for purpose and efficiency and distributed on time and within budget, liaising closely with Group support teams
• Support the construction teams ensuring the plots meet quality standards and NHBC cover requirements.
• Manage drainage and highways adoption processes
• Oversee utility services
• Ensure that all drawings / details meet with Local Authority and NHBC requirements
• Lead and chair monthly Project Team Meetings up to the point of groundworks tender pack issue, then provide handover of these meetings to the Commercial Department
• Manage the technical fee budgets
• Coordinate the communication and distribution of design drawings and specifications to the wider business
• Prepare and maintain project delivery, implementing ‘stop gate’ milestones and control programmes and maintain tracking documents for the monitoring of progress and for use in providing status reports to the Head of Technical and business Senior Management Team

We’re looking for the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in a similar role within the construction or development industry
• Strong knowledge of planning conditions discharge, layout and plot amendments, drainage and highways adoption, materials, utility services, product specification, and NHBC standards.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Bringing together two trusted housebuilding brands, Tilia Homes and Hopkins Homes, untypical aims to make a positive difference to the UK housebuilding market and help to provide greater access to homes which are affordable for buyers. Guided by an innovative approach and a commitment to excellence, untypical focuses on creating sustainable, inclusive communities, delivering homes across the UK that people want to live in and are good for the planet. untypical is guided by its ambition to become the UK’s most customer-centric housebuilder. By putting people and the planet at the heart of the communities that it builds, untypical aims to make a positive difference to the UK housebuilding market and help to provide greater access to homes which are affordable for buyers.