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Associate Technical Lead Architect Location: London Salary: 60,000+ (dependent on experience and location) Permanent, full time position An esteemed architectural practice is seeking an Associate Technical Leader - ARB Architect to join their London office. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced architect, or technical minded leader, to lead the technical direction of residential-led and mixed-use projects across the UK, ensuring regulatory compliance and technical excellence. Key Responsibilities: Lead technical design reviews and ensure compliance with Building Regulations, including the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act, and CDM 2015. Provide leadership and expertise on key technical areas such as fire safety, sustainability, ventilation, and modern construction methods. Mentor and guide project teams to deliver technically sound, buildable, and compliant designs. Establish and implement technical standards, QA systems, and knowledge management processes. Collaborate with contractors, influence procurement decisions, and guide project delivery across RIBA stages 3-6. Experience requested: ARB or MCIAT Registered Architect. 10+ years of post-qualification experience in technical design, detailing, specification, and construction-stage support. Proven experience leading technical delivery on residential-led and mixed-use projects across RIBA stages 3-6. Experience with the Building Safety Act, HRBs, Gateways, and change control. Proven ability to establish technical standards, deliver CPD, and mentor teams. Expertise in: fire & life safety ventilation & overheating external envelopes & moisture sustainability/embodied carbon MMC/modular systems. Strong knowledge of UK Building Regulations, Approved Documents, and Regulation 7 materials restrictions. Ability to act as or advise as Principal Designer under CDM 2015/Building Regulations. Strong construction detailing and specification authoring skills (NBS). Familiarity with warranty provider requirements (NHBC, LABC, etc.) and envelope/physics literacy. Strong leadership and communication skills for reports, presentations, and technical reviews. This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced ARB Architect to take on a leadership role and shape the future of projects across the UK. If youre passionate about technical leadership and compliance, apply now with your latest CV and a cover email highlighting your relevant experience against the request above. Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Building Regulations Principal Designer (BRPD) - Building Control required to join a dedicated construction safety, CDM and BSA consultancy, renowned for its strong reputation across broad sectors including developments in distribution and industrial sectors, cinemas, hotels, leisure facilities, retail units, residential schemes and conservation, refurbishment and regeneration projects. As a BRPD , you will work closely with architects clients, developers, providing support and assistance in fulfilling and documenting their responsibilities as designers and principal designers under the revised Building Regulations. Your BRPD duties will include: Providing guidance and support in fulfilling designer and principal designer responsibilities under the Building Regulations for both HRB and non-HRB projects. Developing, implementing and managing processes, strategies and documentation to demonstrate compliance with Building Regulations. Addressing Building Regulations design queries and actively contributing to collaborative, solution-focused outcomes. Qualifications. A relevant qualification such as an HNC, HND, or a degree in a construction-related field, building control or building inspector field. Accreditation with organisations RICS or CABE is also beneficial. Experience This role will suit someone who has experience within building control or as a Building Inspector with experience navigating building regulations and is interested in taking on or has any experience in a BRPD role. Knowledge and understanding of the Building Regulations as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022 is essential. Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel. Whilst this is a remote working from home role, there will be occasional requirements to be in London, so applicants should be based within two hours' travel distance. This BRPD role is paying £50k-£65k plus pension, life assurance, healthcare, training and development.

A forward-thinking CDM specialist consultancy is looking for a motivated CDM Principal Designer to join their social team in Bedford. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a thriving consultancy focused exclusively on design risk and CDM compliance. The successful CDM Principal Designer will be offered excellent support as you look to grow your career. Despite having a thriving employee culture they offer both Hybrid and remote work. The CDM Principal Designer's role The CDM Principal Designer will work closely with clients and design teams to ensure risk is effectively managed from concept design through to handover. You'll provide expert advice, prepare CDM documentation, and take the lead on multiple medium to large scale projects. The CDM Principal Designer NEBOSH Construction Certificate (required) Tech IOSH (minimum) APS membership (preferred) Design degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Surveying (preferred) 3 years' minimum experience delivering PD duties Excellent working knowledge of CDM regulations and design risk Strong interpersonal and communication skills In Return? Salary: 45,000 - 52,000 Performance bonus Car Allowance Annual travel allowance Annual leave + Bank Holidays + Christmas Employer pension contribution Career development pathways Laptop and phone Contact George Cassidy: Phone: (phone number removed) (phone number removed) CDM / Principal Designer / Construction / NEBOSH / IOSH / Tech IOSH / Health and Safety / Building Control / CertIOSH / GradIOSH / CMIOSH / APS / IMaPS / AaPS / CMaPS / CDM Consultant / CDM Advisor / H&S / Design Safety

Building Regulations Consultant Location: Colchester, Billericay, or London Salary: Up to 70k + Excellent Benefits Package Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time Are you an experienced construction professional with a building control background looking to take the next step in your career? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly respected multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy as a Building Regulations Consultant within their growing Building Regulations, Principal Designer & Building Safety Act team. About the Company With a rich history and a reputation for providing inspirational and practical design solutions, this consultancy delivers services across a wide range of sectors, including commercial, education, residential, and more. As one of the few medium-sized consultancies offering integrated design and technical expertise, they are committed to improving the quality and sustainability of the built environment. With offices located across the UK and plans for further expansion, there has never been a better time to my client. Why Join Us? This company is people-focused, offering an exceptional working environment and benefits: Flexible/remote working to help maintain a great work-life balance. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, festive shutdown, and long-service recognition. Professional development through coaching, mentoring, and membership support. Competitive salary with regular benchmarking to ensure fair pay. A fantastic pension scheme and health cash plan. Cycle to work scheme, on-site parking (excl. London), and season ticket loans. About the Role As a Building Regulations Consultant, you will play a key role in ensuring safety and compliance across a diverse range of exciting projects. Working as part of the central BRPD team and reporting to the H&S Director, you'll collaborate with the design teams to deliver innovative, compliant solutions for clients. Key Responsibilities: Acting as the Building Regulations Consultant for the consultancy's design teams. Reviewing full design packages for Building Regulations compliance and producing detailed compliance reports. Coordinating input from internal technical specialists and external consultants where required. Preparing and updating Building Safety Act compliance risk registers and related documentation. Providing expert advice on necessary construction-phase requirements and conducting periodic inspections. Maintaining documentation and compliance information on the agreed platform with clients. About You We're looking for a proactive and client-focused professional with the ability to: Manage your own workload and provide sound advice to clients and project teams. Collaboratively solve compliance challenges with confidence and expertise. Work closely with the H&S Director to develop the Building Regulations Principal Designer service. If this sounds like the next step in your career, please apply or contact Charlie Voss on (phone number removed) or (phone number removed).

A fast-growing Construction Compliance consultancy are seeking a Building Safety Consultant to aid their clients with Building Regulation and BSA Advisory. You will be encouraged to maintain your RBI status, with the annual subscription paid for. The team consists of a Class 4G/H and other very experienced professionals, which enables a very collaborative environment. If you're a Building Control Surveyor looking to move from statutory compliance and manage clients through the Gateway process, and enjoy the flexibility that comes with this job role, then you will thoroughly enjoy this role. This is a fully remote role. Building Control Consultant Following the Building Safety Act (2022) the Building Regulation Principal Designer (BR PD) role involves Design Coordination in relation to the Building Regulations. You will liaise with your team to utilise Design Compliance trackers and provide design advice relevant to this. Building Control Consultant Requirements Class 2A RBI as a minimum (required) Experience of working on HRB projects (required) Full Chartered Membership of CABE - MCABE (preferred) Experience working as a Building Regulation Consultant / Building Regulation Principal Designer (preferred) What will you get in return? Up to £70,000 Bonus Car Allowance Expenses Annual leave + bank holidays + Christmas Pension Season ticket loan Healthcare Flexible working Company Phone & Laptop Strong career progression Fun office socials If you are a CDM Consultant or Principal Designer and considering your career opportunities, then please contact George Cassidy at Brandon James. Principal Designer / Architect / Building Safety Act 2022 / RIBA / MCIAT / ARB / ACIAT / CIAT / Architectural Technologist / RIBA / BSA 2022 / Project Architect / Senior Architect / Architectural Associate / Building Regulation Principal Designer / BR PD / PD BR

A Construction Design Risk specialist consultancy are looking for a motivated CDM Principal Designer. This is a fantastic opportunity for a CDM Consultant to join a team Design Risk specialists and influence design risk management across varied and complex schemes. The successful CDM Consultant will enjoy a dynamic role, providing expert CDM and Principal Designer services from concept to handover. They enjoy providing a flexible working environment, where they offer trust to work independently, despite offering great collaboration when needed. The CDM Consultant's Role The CDM Consultant will be responsible for managing multiple projects across the South East, ensuring compliance with CDM 2015 regulations. This will involve design risk assessments, client and contractor engagement, and reviewing pre-construction information and design team documentation. The CDM Consultant Minimum 3 years' experience in a CDM Consultant or Principal Designer role (required) NEBOSH Construction Certificate (required) Tech IOSH (required) APS Membership (preferred) Degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Surveying (preferred) Ability to work independently and collaboratively with clients and internal teams In Return? Salary: £45,000 - £52,000 Performance-based bonus Car Allowance Travel expenses covered Annual leave + Bank Holidays + Christmas closure Career advancement within a specialist team Company pension scheme Full healthcare package Gym membership and wellbeing perks Mobile phone and laptop provided If you are a CDM Consultant ready to take on a new challenge, contact George Cassidy at Brandon James to learn more about this opportunity or explore similar roles. Contact George Cassidy:Phone: CDM / Principal Designer / Construction / NEBOSH / IOSH / Tech IOSH / Health and Safety / Building Control / CertIOSH / GradIOSH / CMIOSH / APS / IMaPS / AaPS / CMaPS / CDM Consultant / CDM Advisor / H&S / Design Safety

Job Title: Design Manager - Education Projects Location: Bristol Salary: Competitive Job Type: This is a full time, permanent role 40 hours over 5 days per week About Bowmer + Kirkland: Since being established in 1923 Bowmer + Kirkland has grown to become one of the most successful privately-owned, and family run construction groups in the UK. Our Investors in People accreditation demonstrates our commitment to our staff and we are Scheme Partners of the Considerate Constructors Scheme - something which only a select number of high performing contractors achieve. We are now looking to strengthen our team with the appointment of an experienced Design Manager with a background in the education sector, to lead the coordination and delivery of design across pre-construction and live project phases of our work rebuilding schools. The Role: As Design Manager, you will be responsible for managing the school design intent through detailed interrogation, coordination, and leadership of the design process across the full project lifecycle. This includes ensuring compliance with the Building Safety Act, CDM Regulations, statutory approvals, and B+K's internal governance. You will work collaboratively with clients, consultants, specialist subcontractors, and internal teams to ensure design excellence, programme certainty, and buildability-while embedding health and safety and digital innovation throughout. You will play a key part in ensuring information flows smoothly between the B+K, subcontractors, consultants, and the client - contributing to the delivery of high-quality, well-coordinated projects. Duties of the Role: The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional leadership, a robust understanding of delivering in a main contracting environment, and the ability to work collaboratively with key project stakeholders. A relentless focus on safe delivery, programme certainty, stakeholder engagement, and quality assurance are essential. Key Responsibilities: Lead the management of the design process across one or more projects. Coordinate the full design team including consultants and design-and-build subcontractors. Manage the design programme, RFIs, change control and document control processes. Ensure designs are compliant with Building Regulations, planning conditions, CDM, and other statutory requirements. Drive Safety in Design (SiD) and embed buildability and health & safety risk mitigation. Oversee BIM coordination, clash detection reviews, and digital model audits. Support tendering, value engineering and pre-construction activities. Maintain a high level of technical and commercial awareness in all design decision-making. Engage in client meetings and lead proactive design-based communication. Participate in lessons learned and best practice forums to enhance our delivery model. Mentor junior design team members and actively support CPD development. Key Skills & Experience required: Proven experience in a design management role, ideally within a main contracting environment. Strong technical design background with a degree (or equivalent) in a construction-related discipline. Solid understanding of current regulations (Building Safety Act, CDM, Building Regs, etc.). Experience in coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing specialist subcontractors. Skilled in BIM processes and using platforms such as Viewpoint 4P. Proactive, organised, and a confident communicator. Capable of managing a range of project types, tight deadlines, and complex design scopes. In return we offer: 25 days holiday per year, plus 8 bank holidays and Christmas Eve. Entry into the Group Personal Pension Scheme Private Health Insurance (subject to a qualifying period) Enhanced family friendly policies (subject to qualifying period) Eye care voucher scheme Training & Development Opportunities Bowmer + Kirkland are an equal opportunities employer. We are a disability confident employer and actively encourage applicants who are covered under the equality act to apply. Please contact HR in advance of an interview to discuss any adjustments that are required in order to support you in the process. If you're interested in the role and would like to put yourself forward, please hit APPLY and attach your CV and Cover Letter. Candidates with the experience and relevant job titles of; Design Coordinator, Design and Build Manager, Technical Manager, Principal Designer, Design Lead, Technical Coordinator, Engineering Program Manager, may also be considered for this role.

Role overview ID: Entity: Vistry Region: Vistry Thames Valley Department: Technical Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time Job Location: Reading, Berkshire Date Posted: 18.09.2025 We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Manager to join our team within Vistry Thames Valley, at our Reading office. As our Technical Manager, you will take the lead on project managing the technical matters relating to projects within the region. You will demonstrate a pro-active approach to design development, working within a team environment from the project's inception through to its completion. You will be tasked with the control of the complete design process involving the management of consultants, liaison with the relevant statutory and local authorities and other internal and external stakeholders as necessary. To ensure the designs complies to all necessary legislation, associated standards and Vistry Group specification, policy, and procedures. Your role requires an excellent base level of Health & Safety, Environmental and Technical knowledge, including a good working knowledge of the Highways & Drainage, Building Regulations, NHBC Standards, Planning, and Affordable Housing. We value in-person collaboration and team culture, but we're also committed to supporting flexible working where possible. We encourage you to raise any specific requirements during the interview process so we can explore how this could be accommodated. Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you Competitive basic salary and annual bonus Company car, car allowance or travel allowance Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service 2 Volunteering days per annum Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary Share save and share incentive schemes Employee rewards portal with many more benefits In return, what we would like from you Behave in line with our company values - Integrity, Caring and Quality Full Current UK Driving License or equivalent Experience working within a technical role at a residential house builder or contractor Good level of IT literacy with experience of AutoCAD, Outlook, Excel & Word Proven ability in a Technical Coordinator/Manager role of delivering design for projects on time, to budget and quality standards with high customer satisfaction results Excellent organisation and time management with ability to multitask Commercially aware Ability to make decisions within authority Able to work as a team member Experienced in analysing problems and delivering solutions Strong mathematical ability Be able to design and interpret the designs and technical demands of others Professional aptitude and appearance at all times Strives for continuous improvement for the benefit of the company Driven to achieve customer satisfaction Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work Be able to work effectively in a team Good level of communication skills, with the necessity to liaise with internal staff and external bodies Be practical and methodical with good analytical skills Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it Desirable BTEC HND/HNC, Degree or similar in Design, Construction or Civil Engineering Member of a professional body such as: ICE, CIAT, CIOB Principal Designer and associated Health and Safety training/ qualifications Use of Viewpoint drawing management system Proficient use of Auto Cad Management of technical fees and services cost to complete More about the Technical Manager role Comply with the company Life of Site processes.Undertake key aspects of the Principal Designer role as defined within the Construction Design & Management Regulation 2015.Completion of all necessary Health, Safety & Environmental documents, in line with group policy.Manage the delivery of surveys & reports required for the development and manage associated requirements from design to completion.Manage the process of obtaining consultant fee proposals and formal appointment documents in accordance with group procedures.Manage consultants to deliver the civil engineering designs including legal plans.Undertaking value engineering assessments and ensure buildability.Manage submission of designs and securing technical approvals for agreements such as S104, S38 and S278.Following technical approval being granted, managing timely completion of legal agreements.Manage utility designs and initial mains laying onto site, ensuring legal agreements completed in timely manner.Manage street naming with local authority, complete plot list and distribute internally and externally of the business.Assist in production of Sales brochure, legal and sales handover meetings.Provide information for Housing Association contracts and attendance of progress meetings,Manage consultants to deliver the house type working drawing packs and liaise with key suppliers to provide ancillary drawing information for tender, construction and sales packs.Prepare all drawings and documents for engineering and superstructure elements for tender, followed by the construction issue and sales handover.Manage the accuracy of information supplied by all departments to ensure no discrepancies.Submission of all information to building control and warranty providers and obtaining approval of same, obtaining SAP/HEM Assessments together with PEA' and EPC's, etc.Obtaining and collating all ancillary specialist drawings including hot water supply, heating, kitchen, stair, lintels, p.c. ground floors, and precast upper floors.Attending and chairing Pre-Start Meetings and briefing all departments on matters related to the engineering and working drawings.Manage information and liaise with architects, civil and structural engineers and landscape architects, ensuring consistency between various designs.Assis