Architect – Eastern Region
- Are you a talented Architect, who wants to work for a dynamic Company with bold growth plans?
- Do you want to be part of a company who not only values its people but rewards them accordingly?
About us
We are Churchill Retirement PLC, the fastest growing company in the UK retirement house building sector and we’re looking for people like you.
We’re a family-run, privately-owned business and we’re going places. We’re proud of what we do, and the people we work with. We have ambitious growth plans for the future, now employing over 600 people and growing all the time.
We pride ourselves on building beautiful, quality, purpose-built one and two bedroom apartments in desirable locations across the UK for those looking for an independent lifestyle in later life. Developments are designed to take away all the hassle and fears that can be experienced by older people and provide security, peace of mind and independence.
We’ve won a host of awards; most recently we have been recognised by The Sunday Times as the 3rd Best Company To Work For and in 2016 became the first ever retirement living specialist to have been named overall ‘Housebuilder of the Year’ by the WhatHouse? Awards.
About the role
We are recruiting for a talented, ambitious and forward thinking Architect to join our design team in our Eastern Region, based in our St Albans office.
It’s a fast paced, unique role working alongside our in-house land buyers, town planners, architectural technicians, surveyors, construction team and sales and marketing executives. You will provide a professional design service assisting with all matters relating to the purchase of land and achieving planning consents for retirement living developments. You will have a high degree of responsibility and autonomy and you’ll see a number of your designs built each year.
This role would suit an individual who not only has a passion for design but wants to increase their understanding of the development world. The pieces of land we identify are in town centre locations and are often highly constrained requiring both a creative and commercial design approach to make them viable.
Churchill Retirement Living can offer you the opportunity to build an exciting career and play a key role in the design and delivery of exciting developments. We offer competitive salaries and benefits including a company car or cash for car alternative, life assurance, day off on your birthday, private medical insurance, generous pension contributions, support for professional training/qualifications and childcare vouchers.
A good knowledge of AutoCAD, Photoshop and Sketchup are desirable as is the ability to write analytical supporting documents required for planning such as Design and Assess Statements. This position would suit ‘hands-on’ Individuals who want to design great developments and are also capable of producing planning / presentation drawings and written documents to a high standard.
If this exciting and challenging position is of interest we would like to hear from you.
How you’ll be rewarded
- Competitive salary
- Annual holiday entitlement – 24 days + Bank Holidays
- Company car or cash for car alternative
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Life Assurance
- John Lewis vouchers – £200 to all expectant mums and dads
- Day off on your birthday
- Eye Care Reimbursement Scheme
- Professional Subscriptions
- Training Courses
- Professional development
If you want to be part of our success story send your CV and a covering letter to yourcareer@crl.co.uk quoting reference number EAS1142