Senior Design & Technical Manager

Title: Senior Design & Technical Manager

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £81,529 to £91,121 per annum depending on experience

Grade: 12

Reporting Office: Stratford, London

Working Location: South East London based sites

Persona: Site Based Worker: Contractual hours to be worked from

allocated sites, with ad hoc office attendance as required

Role Profile - Senior Design & Technical Manager.pdf

Closing date for completed applications: 4th December 2025 at 11 PM

Interviews will tentatively be conducted on 13th December 2025.

Benefits include:Excellent pension plan (up to 5% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme andmany more…

**Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Join the Design & Technical Team at L&Q!

At L&Q, we are committed to delivering high-quality homes and ensuring our developments meet the highest standards of design, technical excellence, and customer satisfaction. As a Senior Design & Technical Manager, you will play a leading role in guiding multiple projects from inception through to post-completion, providing expert technical oversight and driving high-quality, cost-effective design solutions across the portfolio.

• Do you have a proven track record of managing design and technical functions within residential construction?
• Are you confident leading teams, influencing stakeholders, and driving high-performing project delivery from the earliest design stages onwards?

If this sounds like you, we’d love to see your expertise in action at L&Q!

Your Impact in the Role:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, motivate, and manage the Design & Technical team, ensuring high performance, excellent customer service, and alignment with L&Q’s values. Support staff development, manage performance, and recognise excellence.
• Design Management & Delivery: Oversee design activities from scheme inception to project handover, ensuring cost-effective and deliverable solutions. Coordinate design work, advise on build considerations, and support first-stage design development.
• Strategic Project Oversight: Manage multiple projects to meet L&Q objectives, key performance indicators, and targets relating to cost, quality, and time. Contribute to strategic innovation across the directorate and wider business.
• Internal Collaboration: Work closely with Land, Commercial, Construction, and Site teams to ensure design effectiveness, support due diligence, commission reports, and identify alternative design solutions where needed.
• External Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain strong relationships with consultants, contractors, and third-party partners. Positively represent L&Q in external forums, working groups, and speaking engagements.
• Financial & Contract Management: Set, agree, and control budgets within the design function. Manage procurement and tendering of design-related services.

What you'll bring:

• Design & Technical Expertise: Strong analytical, design, technical and commercial skills, with excellent attention to detail and understanding of project constraints.
• Leadership Experience: Proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire and manage staff to achieve demanding objectives.
• Stakeholder & Communication Skills: Strong collaboration, negotiation, influencing, presentation, and networking capabilities.
• Project Coordination Skills: Ability to multitask, manage deadlines, and coordinate activities across multiple live projects.
• Digital & Commercial Acumen: Proficiency in MS Office and MS Project/Asta, with strong financial and commercial awareness including contract and risk management.
• Professional Qualifications: A post-degree qualification in a relevant design discipline, with accreditation or progress toward CIOB, RIBA, or an equivalent body.

We look forward to reviewing your application, and hearing about the genuine experiences and skills you could bring to our organisation. L&Q reserve the right to not accept statements that exceed 500 words.

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South-East and North-West of England.

At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

L&Q strongly believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important, and inclusion is part of our core values and everyday working practices. We make hiring decisions based on your experiences, skills and merits and we are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace. Click here to read more.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

At L&Q, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!