Adoptions Manager

Job description

The Role

Manage the completion and adoption of roads, drainage, sewers and associated infrastructure across Bellway Homes developments in the East Midlands.

Working closely with technical, construction, commercial and legal teams, you will progress developments through inspection, remedial works and final handover, keeping programmes on track and controlling outstanding costs and liabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage adoption programmes across active and completed residential developments.
• Liaise with local authorities, highway authorities, water companies and other adopting bodies.
• Coordinate works and approvals associated with Section 38, Section 278 and Section 104 agreements, where applicable.
• Arrange site inspections, identify outstanding works and agree actions required to achieve adoption.
• Appoint and manage contractors undertaking remedial and completion works, ensuring quality, safety and value for money.
• Work with internal teams to resolve technical issues and remove delays to handover.
• Prepare and maintain adoption trackers, budgets, forecasts and progress reports.
• Coordinate as-built drawings, surveys, testing records and other handover documentation.
• Monitor maintenance periods and secure completion certificates, bond reductions and releases.
• Support the handover of public open spaces and communal infrastructure to the appropriate authority or management company.
• Address infrastructure issues affecting residents, working alongside site and customer care teams.

Experience and Skills

• Previous experience in an adoptions, civil engineering or infrastructure role within residential development.
• Strong working knowledge of highway and drainage adoption processes and associated agreements.
• Experience dealing with local authorities, water companies, consultants and groundworks contractors.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications and technical reports.
• Experience managing remedial works, budgets and multiple development programmes.
• Strong communication, negotiation and organisational skills.
• A practical approach to resolving problems and progressing outstanding works.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel throughout the East Midlands.

Desirable

• HNC, HND or degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.
• Experience working for a volume housebuilder.
• Established relationships with adopting authorities across the East Midlands.
• Experience progressing older developments with outstanding adoption requirements.

Salary and Benefits
To be confirmed, dependent on experience.

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