Senior Construction Quality Analyst

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Overview

Salary: £45,000 to £52,000, + plus a Company car.

Bonus: Up to 10% bonus.

Closing date: 25th November 2024.

Location: Home-based working, Gloucestershire and surrounding area.

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Construction Quality Analyst at NHBC, you play a pivotal role in ensuring that construction projects meet the highest standards of quality and compliance. You will provide valuable insights and recommendations to improve quality, safety, and sustainability practices, helping our customer builders to enhance standards across the industry.

* Please note, this opportunity is location specific to Gloucestershire and surrounding area. Candidates considering this opportunity should be within a 20-mile radius to qualify.

What we offer:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
• Company car
• Up to £7,500 Regional allowance, qualification depends on location (Inner London £7,500, Outer London £6,000, South-east £3,750)
• Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution of up to 10.5%
• Life Assurance (x4 salary)
• Subsidised private medical insurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
• 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
• 2 days volunteer leave
• Equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents

What you'll be doing:

As the go-to regional expert for Construction Quality services, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse range of customers, including builders, developers, housing associations, trades, and manufacturers. With the flexibility to work from home and the thrill of being on the move at least three days a week, this role offers a dynamic environment for your personal growth and development.

As the CQS regional contact, you'll undertake Construction Quality Services and drive forward build quality and product uptake within your region. By building strong rapport with our valued customers at the site and regional business unit levels, you'll be instrumental in achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and shaping the standards of excellence in the construction industry.

A significant aspect of your role will involve conducting Construction Quality Reviews on sites or products to ensure compliance with relevant legislation. Your insights and feedback will raise the bar for build quality and enhance NHBC's Warranty technical risk management processes.

While your typical workload will be within your defined geographical area (Colchester/ Essex area), you will also need to be ready for occasional nationwide travel and overnight stays, adding diversity and adventure to your role.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven experience within the house-building industry
• Good knowledge of Building Regulations, NHBC Standards and Building Control.
• The ability to build rapport and convey complex technical information to site personnel clearly and concisely.
• Insightfulness, creativity, persuasion, and diplomacy.
• Effective communication skills face to face, in workshops, in written reports and through presentations.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise a demanding workload.
• A keen interest in learning and keeping up to date with industry-related improvements, building standards and developments.
• The ability to gather and analyse information to support decision making.

*Please note when applying that this is a physically demanding role requiring visits to construction sites and reviews of buildings throughout the whole of the build process, including working frequently at height.

Qualifications

Education and Qualifications:

Relevant accredited NHD/NHC qualification or higher and/or substantial industry experience.

A full Driving licence is required for this role.

Why you should join us:

At NHBC we are proud to be unique. Our organisation combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.

We are a modern, lifestyle and family-friendly employer in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don't promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.

Your future with us

We have numerous examples across our business of people building their careers with us. We advocate for internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you're ambitious, driven, and hard-working, you will succeed with us. We'll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.

Our inclusive culture

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support our colleagues and their allies, creating safe spaces for open conversations and the sharing of ideas.

NHBC Building Safety Regulator Framework:

Although not a regulatory requirement for the role, NHBC intends to get all Construction Quality Services technical team members to the same competency level as a registered Inspector with the Building Safety Regulator.

If you need any adjustments or additional support with your application, please let us know at Recruitment@nhbc.co.uk