Job description
29/Aug/2023
Permanent
Who we are:
Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 35,000 homes across the North West and East Midlands.
We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.
About the department:
Providing high-quality homes is vitally important to us to help alleviate the shortage of affordable housing. In addition to managing and maintaining our existing homes, we have an ambitious but achievable aim to deliver 4,000 new homes across our regions over the next five years and with a focus on building more sustainably. We deliver outstanding new homes for sale and rent and form innovative partnerships with a range of developers and forward-thinking local authorities to build and create communities.
As a highly-motivated individual you will be part of a dedicated and busy development team which consists of two Assistant Directors who lead on our growth and programme delivery and three teams consisting of a Development Manager, Project Manager and Development Officer.
Alongside this team are five Clerks of Works who are based on-site to check the quality of the new homes we build and provide technical support. Together with our in-house sales team, Snugg Homes, who market and sell our homes for sale, the team is committed and works together to provide a great service to our customers.
Role Information:
As Clerk of Works you are responsible for a number of new build sites for both rent and sale across the North West. With a strong pipeline of multiple housing projects all at varying stages of design and construction, you will provide crucial Clerk of Works services both during and after the development process to support the delivery of quality assurance in building projects.
You will also work with our Project Managers and Consultant Quantity Surveyors to provide professional inspections advice, review technical and material specifications, inspect works on site and make sure that standards of work and the materials supplied by contractors meet with the contract information.
Working in a fast paced environment, you will be a flexible thinker and effective communicator who can make sound recommendations to ensure we deliver much-needed, quality homes that will make a real difference to our communities.
Jigsaw Benefits:
Working as part of Jigsaw Homes Group your flexible working hours are 35 hours per week between the hours of 7am and 7pm, Monday to Friday. You will be based from home.
You will also get:
- 27 working days holiday per annum (based on a 5-day working week) plus bank holidays, plus additional days after 2 years continuous service (to a maximum of 5 days) and the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra per year,
- Incremental salaried pay
- occupational sick pay,
- on-site gyms,
- access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme,
- Simply Health membership,
- enhanced maternity/paternity leave,
- training/development opportunities.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of CV's