Commercial & Quality Engineer
NHBC
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Milton Keynes
Contract type: Full time

Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 + 10% performance bonus + regional allowance
Working location: Nationwide, Homebased
Employment type: full time, permanent
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Commercial & Quality Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role will be pivotal in ensuring the successful assessment, management, and delivery of engineering solutions across a variety of non-residential developments, conversions and retirement projects.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you will manage your workload and tasks to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are consistently met. You will assess building regulation and warranty applications for non-residential developments, conversions, and the retirement sector, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
You will also collaborate with Major Project Engineers on Higher Risk Buildings, including Building Control assessments and Building Assessment Certificate applications for existing buildings, working with the Building Safety Regulator when needed. As a key technical resource, you will provide professional advice on designs to ensure compliance with Building Regulations and warranty standards, while resolving any engineering issues.
Our benefits package includes:
At NHBC, we pride ourselves on being truly unique. No other organisation in our sector matches the range of services and scale we provide. As the market leader, we are recognised as the go-to for new home warranties and insurance. Our team is united by a core purpose: to raise the standards of house building and protect homeowners.
Why you should join us
As a modern, family-friendly employer, we’re in a phase of rapid growth, embracing technology, data and new ways of working. We’re seeking passionate, skilled and driven individuals to join us on this exciting journey.
Once onboard, you’ll have access to fantastic opportunities for personal and career growth. You’ll receive thorough training, continuous development and the chance to earn recognised qualifications and professional memberships to support your journey.
We support flexible working and encourage our colleagues to find a balance that suits them. While we may not be able to accommodate every request, we’re always happy to have a conversation about flexible working arrangements.
Our inclusive culture
We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We firmly believe in the right of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and free from discrimination. Our active employee networks support colleagues and their allies, providing safe spaces for open conversations and idea-sharing.
Working location: Nationwide, Homebased
Employment type: full time, permanent
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Commercial & Quality Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role will be pivotal in ensuring the successful assessment, management, and delivery of engineering solutions across a variety of non-residential developments, conversions and retirement projects.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you will manage your workload and tasks to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are consistently met. You will assess building regulation and warranty applications for non-residential developments, conversions, and the retirement sector, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
You will also collaborate with Major Project Engineers on Higher Risk Buildings, including Building Control assessments and Building Assessment Certificate applications for existing buildings, working with the Building Safety Regulator when needed. As a key technical resource, you will provide professional advice on designs to ensure compliance with Building Regulations and warranty standards, while resolving any engineering issues.
- Negotiate with developers, builders, and their professional advisors, from initial design to completion, to ensure proposals are satisfactory in relation to building control, warranty and land quality in accordance with relevant regulations and NHBC Standards where appropriate.
- Manage the warranty aspects by supporting inspection staff with the provision of expert advice, inspection of high risk/complex elements of building work and review of progress.
- Prepare technical reports to builders and/or professional advisors and check reports prepared by others.
- On claims, agree brief with client, undertake investigations, report on findings, prepare solutions for remedial work schemes, issue tender information, assess costs and undertake site inspections
- Extensive experience in the construction industry with knowledge of the housing and commercial sectors.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written with appropriate interpersonal and presentational skills.
- Proven ability to make pragmatic and value decisions on compliance with Building Regulations and NHBC Standards.
- IT literate with the ability to use a range of software programs.
- Significant relevant knowledge and understanding of all aspects of superstructure, foundation and geotechnical design with regard to building structures.
- Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution.
- Relevant qualification either higher diploma or degree, qualified by experience also apply.
Our benefits package includes:
- 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
- holiday purchase scheme
- enhanced pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
- life assurance
- subsidised private medical insurance
- employee discounts platform
- two days volunteer leave
- enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
- many more!
At NHBC, we pride ourselves on being truly unique. No other organisation in our sector matches the range of services and scale we provide. As the market leader, we are recognised as the go-to for new home warranties and insurance. Our team is united by a core purpose: to raise the standards of house building and protect homeowners.
Why you should join us
As a modern, family-friendly employer, we’re in a phase of rapid growth, embracing technology, data and new ways of working. We’re seeking passionate, skilled and driven individuals to join us on this exciting journey.
Once onboard, you’ll have access to fantastic opportunities for personal and career growth. You’ll receive thorough training, continuous development and the chance to earn recognised qualifications and professional memberships to support your journey.
We support flexible working and encourage our colleagues to find a balance that suits them. While we may not be able to accommodate every request, we’re always happy to have a conversation about flexible working arrangements.
Our inclusive culture
We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We firmly believe in the right of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and free from discrimination. Our active employee networks support colleagues and their allies, providing safe spaces for open conversations and idea-sharing.
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