Senior Technical Building Consultant

**Build your career with us.... we’re looking for a Senior Technical Building Consultant**

At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose_ _to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.

**Why you should join us**

We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly in different ways, including home, field-based and hybrid working. We don’t promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.

If you love the challenge of working on complex, high risk and high value new build projects and have the knowledge and skills to engage with housing developers and their professional teams, then you could be the perfect fit to join our Technical Operations team as a Senior Technical Building Consultant.

**What we offer**:

- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
- generous pension contributions up to 10.5%
- private medical insurance
- equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
- 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your physical and mental wellbeing
- 2 days volunteer leave

**What you’ll be doing**

As part of a professional, multi-disciplinary team, you will lead on the technical risk management on a whole range of new build and conversion projects. You will engage, influence and negotiate with developers, builder customers and their design teams at the proposal stage to provide expert knowledge, and professional and technical advice on NHBC Standards, codes and other relevant areas in order to guide them towards compliant solutions that present an acceptable technical risk to NHBC.

This is a home-based role and you can look forward to real flexibility and an excellent work/life balance. You will often be expected to travel to client sites and, from time to time to our offices, including our head office in Milton Keynes.

**Key elements of the Senior Technical Building Consultant role are to**
- Lead the management of NHBC’s technical and warranty risks
- Oversee the technical risk management of complex new build and conversion projects
- Review and check technical submissions from customers to ensure they comply with NHBC standards
- Project management including managing and co-ordinating the input of other specialists within the TRM project team
- Engage, influence and negotiate with developers and their design teams
- Carry out site inspection of building work as part of the technical risk management strategy and provide support to inspectors, surveyors and engineers in the project team.

**What we are looking for**:
We’re looking for an enthusiastic self-starter who has or is working towards chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution. You will also have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of at least one of the following: structural defects claims, Building Regulations, engineering, NHBC Standards, site inspection, building construction and technology.

**You’ll also need**:

- relevant building/construction experience with substantial knowledge of the housing and commercial sectors
- an understanding of building pathology and why and how buildings fail and result in claims and associated remediation
- an understanding of environmental issues and relevant standards and legislation
- excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present information
- a proactive, self-motivated approach with the willingness to develop this exciting new role.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

**Your future with us**

We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you’re ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We’ll support you with full training, ongoing CPD and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.

**Our inclusive culture**

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support ou