We are Places for People Developments, we create and manage thriving communities that our customers are proud to call home and are sustainable economically, socially, and environmentally. Over 500,000 people live in our homes and 300,000 people visit our leisure centres every week.   

We own or manage more than 219,000 homes, operate over 100 leisure facilities, employ over 12,000 colleagues, have assets of £4.8bn, and will deliver circa 6,000 affordable homes over the next 10 years through our partnership with Homes England.  When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community. 

More about your role  

You will be reporting to the Southeast Production Director and have full responsibility for the construction strategy and delivery of multiple developments sites.  

As the senior lead in the regional construction team, you will manage the team and provide a quality product safely within set budgets and agreed timescales. You will be able to drive a culture of accountability ensuring best in class safe practices are followed.  This will be throughout the region, ensuring costs are controlled, programme targets and quality are delivered throughout the design, pre-construction and construction phases.  

You will also work closely with the Aftercare team to ensure customer requirements are exceeded post occupation, supporting excellent levels of customer satisfaction.   

This role will cover the South East region. The successful candidate will live in the region and be expected to visit the sites from the north to the south of the patch. You will be expected to be based out of our office at Gray's Inn Road two days per week, with travel to site visits around the South East Area.  

For more information, please download our job profile available on our website.  

More about you  

Ideally you will be working at a similar level currently for a regional housebuilder/developer and be looking for a new challenge. Having experience of the full lifecycle across the development, able to input and define pre-construction planning and programming, ensure delivery on site by your Build and Site Managers and have experience in dealing with customers and aftercare.  

It would be desirable if you have PLC house building background/Social Housing Development experience.  

We are open to hearing from people that are currently in a Senior Build Manager role or a Head of Build role looking to take the next step in their career.  

You will need to possess strong leadership skills and be able to motivate a dispersed workforce to achieve their goals. You will be analytical with a methodical, commercial approach to problem solving.      

The benefits  

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.   

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:  

Annual bonus  

Car or car allowance  

Excellent holiday pay and sick pay 

Pension with matched contributions 

Training 

Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.  

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please email the recruitment team recruitment@placesforpeople.co.uk 

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.

Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

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