Senior Technical Coordinator
Job Title: Senior Technical Coordinator
Location: (Initial Assignment)
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Senior Technical Coordinator and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Senior Technical Coordinator, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- Bonus
- Car Allowance or Company Car
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Healthcare
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
The purpose of the role is to co-ordinate all technical information including Building Design, Highways, Drainage, Utilities and Sustainability on projects from inception to completion whilst working to the Management team’s technical brief.
What you’ll do as a Senior Technical Coordinator
- Managing the flow of technical information on a number of projects at any given time to ensure the projects are built on time and within budget
- Checking and approving architect’s and engineer’s drawings and assist in the management of external consultants to minimise issues, thus maintaining strong working relationships and strengthening the regional performance
- Monitoring the discharge of planning conditions, issue timely construction drawings and ensure enquiries and applications go to statutory service companies and local authorities to provide the highest standard of compliance for the Technical Department
- Liaising with other company departments providing technical assistance whilst maintaining the highest standard of Health and Safety creating safe environments
- Liaising with the NHBC/LABC on Building Regulation matters and discharge conditions so the region will be compliant and the Sales team will be able to release plots for sale
- Preparing and approving conveyance plans, legal plans and monitor technical specifications so the Technical team have the relevant approval for the Sales Team to progress the sales process
- Providing CAD work as required for the projects to support the wider technical team
- Ensuring that on occasion when deputising for the Manager the team are allocated tasks, where quality of work will need to be verified to maintain it is completed to a good standard within company guidelines
- Given proven experience the role will involve mentoring and training junior members of the team and developing their skills to a sufficient level where they can take on more responsibility and add value to the team, thus improving productivity within the region
- On occasion provide assistance to the Manager when making key business decisions and attend regular regional meetings as the relevant subject expert
What experience do I need?
- Experience of working within a residential developer
- Capable of producing viability layouts, detailed planning layouts for submission and other planning application supporting documents.
- Experienced with the use of AutoCad and the production of working drawings for construction use.
- HND/HNC or equivalent qualification in construction
- Understanding of general design and technical processes with a reasonable knowledge of building regulations.
- Full UK driving licence
