Build Director
- Recruiter
- Skilled Careers
- Location
-
Birmingham
West Midlands RegionUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 01 Feb 2023
- Closes
- 01 Feb 2023
- Job Title
- Associate Director
- Category
- Professional Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Build Director
Build Director wanted on a permanent basis.
As a Build Director you will be responsible for leading the Production and Site Delivery Team to achieve high standards of build quality, to budget and ensuring the highest standard of health and safety is maintained at all times. You will be responsible for driving continuous improvement, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, and proactively identifying operational enhancements.
Job Description
The successful Build Director will be expected to carry out duties such as:
- Embed and drive a customer focused culture by driving sustainable improvements and sharing best practises as a consequence of customer feedback and insight.
- Drive a continuous improvement culture which improves the customer experience and responds to consumer trends locally.
- Manage customer complaints and disputes to ensure they are addressed in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Carry out technical feasibility review of potential sites
- Appraise the project buildability in conjunction with the Development Department and produce a construction programme.
- Attend preplanning, pretender and prestart meetings to ensure all necessary construction issues are addressed prior to commencement on site.
- Lead the Production and Site Delivery Team to achieve the agreed build programmes.
- Monitor and drive weekly progress and liaise with other department heads to resolve any delays or issues identified.
- Ensure that a culture exists within the site construction team that guarantees the required quality of the build process is achieved.
- Liaise weekly with the sales team to review sales and production progress on a site by site basis, driving performance improvement to ensure deadlines met.
- Undertake regular visits to site to review progress and adherence to company and HSE procedures.
- Carry out PDRs with direct reports whilst ensuring all team members receive a PDR conducted by their line manager
Skills / Qualifications
The successful Build Director will be expected to demonstrate:
- Behaviour in line with company values Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Proven experience in leading a high performing team
- Proven experience in delivering and developing land into live sites
- Extensive experience within the residential / housebuilding at senior leadership level
- Experience in developing and negotiating sub–contract relationships
- Extensive understanding of safety legislation in relation to build process
- Experience of developing high performing site teams delivering on time, safely and to budget
- Commercially astute with ability to drive down costs for benefit of profitability
- Ability to input into and influence the strategic plan for the business unit from a production perspective, and to deliver it
- Leadership embraces responsibilities fully, develops potential and inspires people to follow.
- Communication persuades, influences and inspires others gaining agreement and acceptance even from those who are not direct reports
- Strategic thinking identifies future needs and is proactive in progressing from current practices
What's in it for you?
The successful Build Director will receive:
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 days per annum
- Private Healthcare
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance 4 x your annual salary
- Sharesave scheme
- Cycle to work scheme up to GBP3000
- Support with a professional membership
- Denplan, GymFlex and many more