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Employer description
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity?
Join Persimmon Homes as a Architectural Trainee and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters. Why Persimmon Homes?
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers.
Main description
When you join us as a Architectural Trainee, you’ll benefit from:
Competitive salary 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction Life Cover & Contributory Pension Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
The purpose of the role is to provide assistance to the Architectural Team who co-ordinate design and maintain technical support to all regional departments and site based teams to enable the region to achieve its objectives and agreed goals.
Primary Responsibilities
- Assistance in the preparation of Land Appraisal Viabilities
- Working closely with the Architectural Team in the production of planning applications
- Interact closely with design and planning team to deliver planning consents
- Building Regulation/CML issues
- Assisting in the production of all architectural drawings for start on site
- Helping to produce designs in agreed timescales to ensure regional targets are achieved.
- Help provide architectural support and technical guidance for regional site and office based operations.
- Help to ensure compliance with Building Regulations and Statutory Authorities.
- Preparation and co-ordination of Legal Conveyance Plans.
- Maintain documentation for the standard product portfolio.
What experience do I need?
Ideally undertaking/has undertaken a Construction Related Course such as BTEC Construction and the Built Environment’ or ‘A Levels' and have a keen interest in design.
- Computer literate with a good knowledge of Excel and Word.
- Knowledge of AutoCAD would be ideal.
- Uses Own initiative.
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timescales.
- Ability to work in a team and as an individual.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to visualise a problem and look to solve it.
- Attend Day Release College/University in order to obtain a Construction related HNC or Degree
- Must undertake continuous professional development.
- Must have A-C grades in Mathematics, English and Science.
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How to apply
Please email a CV to grace.harris@persimmonhomes.com
Closing Date
The closing date for this job offer is on 20/06/2025
Salary
Competitive
Location
This job is located in Great Blakenham, Suffolk
More Information
About West Suffolk College
West Suffolk College is an ambitious vocational and academic College, with a stunning main campus set in the heart of Bury St Edmunds. We are committed to providing outstanding education to all our students.
