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Role Overview As a Technical Manager at Hill, you will lead the delivery of technical design and coordination across a portfolio of residential developments within your region. You will be responsible for managing a team of Senior Technical Coordinators, Technical Coordinators, Assistant Technical Coordinators and Trainee’s overseeing consultant performance, driving buildable and cost-effective design solutions, and ensuring all technical outputs support programme, quality, and budget requirements. You will play a pivotal role in leading your regional technical team and aligning the function with Hill’s business plan, quality expectations, and commitment to exceptional homes and sustainable communities. General Responsibilities · Manage, lead and support a regional team of Technical Coordinators, ensuring roles, responsibilities and workloads are clearly defined, and performance is aligned with Hill’s expectations. · Act as the regional technical point of contact for internal departments including Construction, Commercial, Sales, Legal, Development and Customer Services. · Promote and uphold all Health, Safety and Environmental standards across all project stages; ensure CDM compliance and that risk assessments are suitable and issued to the H&S Coordinator. · Liaise with the Group Head of Quality to understand recurring customer issues and implement technical solutions that reduce defects and improve outcomes. · Oversee training and development of trainees within the department, including support on Hill’s graduate and trainee pathways. · Ensure site presentation, design quality, and customer documentation meet Hill’s branding and service standards. · Participate in business planning and resourcing discussions to ensure the region is equipped to meet future project demands. · Communicate clearly and consistently across departments and external stakeholders, addressing issues with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset. · Promote Hill’s Equal Opportunities and people-focused policies in all team and consultant relationships. · Represent Hill professionally in all dealings with external consultants, authorities, funders, and clients. · Act as the Technical Lead with regards to Business Development activities across the region including maintaining relationships with key consultants, stakeholders and professional bodies. Leveraging these relationships where necessary to support our growing aspirations. · Supporting the bid teams as a single point of contact with regards to technical reviews, site appraisals, working alongside internal/external design teams to ensure all technical risks are understood at bid stage and are considered throughout the tendering process to ensure a robust submission is made. In addition, ensuring continuity of the bid assumption throughout the preconstruction period and onto site. · The technical manager is accountable for the statutory undertakers and design fee budgets. This includes managing payments, forecasts and expenditure of consultant/stat fees. This is a critical part of the role that requires diligence and a commercial eye for detail to ensure budgets are robust, they are forecast correctly and managed. · Assist the Regional Director in the growth of the region and input into strategic decisions and business plans where necessary. · Liaison with group resources such as the other technical Managers to ensure consistency of approach with company processes and risks. · Ensuring information is provided to our estimating team in good time for bids and ensuring that design scope gaps are understood and explained to allow risks to be priced Technical duties · Lead and manage the regional technical function, ensuring all projects are delivered on time, to standard, and in line with Hill procedures. · Oversee the preparation of design programmes and reports; monitor delivery against milestones and update Regional Director accordingly. ·