About this role
Your New Company
You'll be joining a leading infrastructure and highways services provider delivering maintenance, improvement and construction works across the National Highways Area 12 network. Based from the Birdwell Depot, the team is responsible for keeping the strategic road network operating safely and efficiently while delivering a varied programme of planned, reactive and improvement schemes.
Your New Role
As Construction Manager, you'll take responsibility for the safe and successful delivery of a portfolio of small to medium highways schemes, managing multiple projects concurrently across the Area 12 network. You'll oversee schemes from planning through to completion, coordinating site teams, supervisors and subcontractors while ensuring works are delivered safely, on programme, within budget and to the required quality standards. The role will cover a mixture of planned and reactive highways maintenance, renewal works, small capital improvements and depot-based projects, offering plenty of variety rather than being focused on one individual scheme.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of multiple highways maintenance, improvement and construction schemes concurrently.
- Lead and coordinate Site Managers, Supervisors, subcontractors and supply chain partners.
- Ensure works are delivered safely, on programme, within budget and to the required quality standards.
- Plan and coordinate labour, plant, materials and supervision resources across multiple schemes.
- Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations 2015, relevant highways standards, RAMS, permits and safe systems of work.
- Undertake site inspections and monitor safety, quality, environmental and programme performance.
- Monitor progress, identifying and resolving programme risks, delays and delivery issues.
- Liaise closely with Project Managers, designers, commercial teams and operational maintenance teams.
- Review designs from a constructibility perspective and identify buildability, safety and value engineering opportunities.
- Support cost control, forecasting, measurement and management of changes across allocated schemes.
- Maintain strong working relationships with National Highways, internal stakeholders and supply chain partners.
- Coordinate construction activities around ongoing 24/7 highways maintenance operations.
- Drive right-first-time delivery, continuous improvement and lessons learned across projects.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- Previous experience delivering highways construction, maintenance or improvement schemes.
- CSCS
- SMSTS or equivalent construction safety qualification
- Experience working on National Highways, term maintenance or highways framework contracts would be advantageous.
- HNC/HND or equivalent qualification in Civil Engineering or a related discipline would be desirable.
- Full UK driving licence.
What You'll Get in Return
- Opportunity to take a key delivery role on a major National Highways maintenance and response contract.
- A varied workload managing a portfolio of highways schemes rather than being restricted to one project.
- Long-term exposure to highways maintenance, renewals and improvement works across the Area 12 network.
- Opportunity to work closely with an established delivery, operational and commercial team.
- Competitive package/rate dependent on experience and employment basis.
If you're available, please apply below and forward an up-to-date CV
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