Technical Assistant

Job Title: Technical Assistant Location: Peterborough, PE2 Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Technical Assistant and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes? We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, We Don’t Just Build Homes — We Build Careers. When You Join Us As Technical Assistant, 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
• Healthcare
• Bonus
• 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? This is an exciting opportunity for a Technical Assistant to join our East Midlands team from January 2027. The purpose of this role is to provide and perform general administration support using own initiative and self-motivation where necessary.

What You’ll Do As a Technical Assistant

• Document/Drawing distribution via our document management system for the Engineering and Architectural team
• Assisting the Technical Coordinators with Admin elements of their roles (applications for postal addresses, Robust Details, SAPs, Heating Designs, etc)
• Produce Conveyance Plans on a weekly bases (AutoCAD). Training can be provided.
• Assist in secretarial duties for the company, including audio typing, word processing and the use of excel spreadsheets
• Creating Consultant Appointment documents and orders appointments
• Monitoring, recording and updating Consultants PI Insurance details
• All employees have responsibility to ensure their practice adheres with both legislation and the fairness at work policy

What experience do I need?

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Previous experience within an office environment
• Computer literate with experience of a number of different packages including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
• AutoCAD (Drawing software) – Training can be given.
• Ability to be well organised, self-motivated with high attention to detail