Head of Technical & Engineering

Head of Technical & Engineering

Torquay (with travel across our sites)

With a rich history dating back to 1923, Cavanna Homes is the South West’s largest independent house builder. We are family-owned and construct beautiful new homes that customers love.

We are now looking for a Head of Technical & Engineering to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Competitive salary

- Electric or hybrid company car or car allowance

- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays, additional holidays awarded for length of service

- Holiday purchase scheme – purchase up to an additional week of holiday

- 6% employer pension contributions

- Private healthcare for yourself and family

- Medicash health cashback scheme

- Life assurance (3x annual salary)

- Cycle to work scheme up to the value of £3,500

- Discount on purchase of a Cavanna Home

This is an exceptional opportunity for a qualified construction design professional with a strong leadership style and experience as a Principal Designer to join our highly respected business.

What’s more, you’ll discover a long-established, family-owned organisation with an exciting future vision, making this the perfect role in which to play a defining part in the continued evolution of our developments and standards.

The Role

As Head of Technical & Engineering, you will lead the delivery of various projects that support the design and build of our residential developments.

Taking overall responsibility for the design process, you will ensure projects are delivered to the highest standards of compliance, buildability and cost effectiveness. You will manage consultants, technical partners and stakeholders, liaising with statutory and local authorities to support the successful delivery of developments.

You will also lead and develop the Technical & Engineering team, overseeing the delivery of technical information to project teams while driving value engineering and risk mitigation activity across developments.

Additionally, you will:

- Ensure projects are compliant with legislation, NHBC standards and Building Regulations

- Manage adoptions and management companies through to completion

- Maintain the Cavanna standard house type portfolio

- Report on sustainability strategy implementation and progression

- Monitor and report on Technical budget movements

- Track and report on pre-development site progress and key dates

- Act as Principal Designer stakeholder under the Building Safety Act

About You

To be considered as our Head of Technical & Engineering, you will need:

- Experience managing teams with diverse skill sets

- Experience acting as Principal Designer under the Building Safety Act

- Extensive knowledge of construction methods and practical delivery

- A good understanding of engineering design and implementation

- An understanding of legal processes relating to adoptions and management agreements

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and motivate others

- A construction or design-related HNC, HND or Degree

The closing date for this role is 29th May 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Head of Engineering, Head of Construction Design, Technical & Engineering Manager, Head of Design & Engineering.

Cavanna Homes is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking for a new role as our Head of Technical & Engineering, please apply via the button shown.