Design & Planning Manager

Hedyn; Newport; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing development company in Newport is seeking a Design & Planning Manager to ensure high-quality, sustainable homes. The role involves community-centered design, collaboration with partners, and maintaining statutory standards. The ideal candidate is passionate about creating well-designed homes and contributing to community development. Benefits include enhanced pension and annual leave, with support for personal and professional development.

Benefits

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Enhanced Annual Leave

Agile Working Policy

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Ensure homes are of the highest design quality and meet sustainability commitments.
• Balance community needs with statutory requirements in design.
• Collaborate with statutory partners for efficient delivery mechanisms.

Job description

Overview

We are looking to appoint a Design & Planning Manager. Are you keen to ensure that play an instrumental part in the creation of well-designed homes and connected communities where everyone can live well? In this role you can truly make a difference to the future of our homes and the customers who will reside within them.

Responsibilities

• The Design and Planning Manager role will sit within our Growth Directorate. This is a key, and exciting, role that will be responsible for ensuring that the homes provided by Hedyn (and Candleston) are of the highest design quality, meeting our commitments to sustainability, placemaking and through effective engagement and community centred design.
• This role will ensure our homes are efficient in layout and design with site layouts shaped by balancing the needs of the communities we are working with, together with our Hedyn and statutory requirements.
• Working with our statutory partners you will identify delivery mechanisms that are collaborative, efficient and progress proposals as dynamically as possible.
• (Please refer to the attached role profile for more information.)

Process and contact

• For further information about the role, please contact [e-mail]
• Application Process: We require an application form to be completed for every role.
• We do not require recruitment agency support at this time – all speculative CVs will be treated as a direct application.

Benefits

• Enhanced Pension Scheme: We offer an attractive pension scheme with generous employer contributions.
• Enhanced Annual Leave: You’ll start on 25 days annual leave (+ Bank Holidays) which would increase to 30 days following 3 years’ service.
• Agile Working Policy (dependent on role): Hedyn work with the philosophy that ‘work is something you do rather than somewhere you go.’
• Health and Wellbeing: We have many health and wellbeing policies and initiatives such as Cycle to Work and Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave.
• Development: We offer many professional and personal development options such as paying for professional membership, sponsored study opportunities and career progression and development.

Notes

We want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If you are looking for your next career challenge, seeking responsibility, and are passionate about delivering the best possible service, we'd love to hear from you.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Housing and Community Development