Job summary

Our Civil engineering and construction client are seeking a Construction Manager to join their Havant Thicket Reservoir team on a permanent basis.

Key skills required for this role

Construction, Manager, Water, Delivery, Reservoir, Infra, Non infra, Civils, Earthworks

Important

Construction Manager experience essential

Job description

Our Civil engineering and construction client are seeking a Construction Manager to join their Havant Thicket Reservoir team on a permanent basis.

The role will be site based in newly built offices on the reservoir site. The role will work with an existing Construction Manager to support the end client, Portsmouth Water, with a major reservoir and pipeline build.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a motivated project/site teams, including Project Managers for delivery of key elements of scope
• Understand and communicate client's scope to site teams to ensure objectives are met, whilst identifying elements which are beyond contract scope and are potential compensation events.
• Liaise with site management teams to ensure effective utilisation of plant and labour on site. Monitor plant and labour use against Forecast Plan.
• Ensure site management teams produce accurate weekly and monthly site returns in a timely manner.
• Monitor the morale & motivation of the team. Communicate the company objectives & maintain regular information sharing relevant to the team
• Support commercial team to prepare enquires and procure subcontract packages.
• Manage subcontract packages, in accordance with the project procedures
• To deliver specific construction activities as directed by the Construction Manager
• Build effective relationships with the supply chain.
• Support other members of the joint venture project team including - Health Safety Wellbeing Manager, Civil Design Project Manager, MEICA Design Project Manager, Project Control Manager, Environmental Manager, Quality Manager, Commercial Manager, Documents Controller, and Public Liaison Manager
• Promote a culture of Collaboration, integration, continuous improvement and use of best practice.
• Develop effective relationships with the client and the client representatives especially during sites visits
• Raise early warnings and attend risk reduction meetings to discuss the best way to mitigate potential delays and increased costs.
• Review the buildability of designs as they are developed from concept, through outline, to detailed design, to ensure they can be constructed safely, compliant with environmental requirements within programme, within budget, and to a high quality standard that meets scope requirements.

Skills/experience/qualifications

• Major civils infra/earthworks experience would be an advantage
• Design and build experience in Water industry desirable
• Degree qualified ideally in civil engineering/site management
• Relevant site based certifications - SMSTS etc.
• Must be commutable to site

Benefits

• Salary open to negotiation - range from £60k plus
• Car/car allowance
• Generous holiday allocation
• The role is a permanent position on a project due to last until 2030 - post project completion our client may look to redeploy onto other projects