National Highways
Construction Assurance Manager

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About the job
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Assurance Manager to join our team in North West region. The Construction Assurance Manager will play a key role in the delivery of National Highways Capital Investment Schemes by representing the company's interests on civil engineering construction and maintenance sites.
Reporting directly to the Construction Manager, you will actively ensure construction schemes are delivered in line with time, cost, quality and safety standards, and customer experience is not adversely impacted. This well-established team prides itself on its culture and this role will give you a varied, challenging workday, every day.
This role is based from our Warrington, Preston, Penrith or Manchester office.
You will also be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.
- Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate any concerns to the Construction Manager, in line with agreed governance requirements.
- Ensuring that all works are constructed in line with: CDM regulations, HSE Legislation, Chapter 8 requirements, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and Manual of Contract Documents for Highways Works (MCHW).
- Ensuring Project Managers receive regular and timely feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, early warnings, design related issues, and act as the initial point of escalation for any on-site issues that need to be resolved.
- Acting as liaison between all key supply chain partners and coordinate the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.
- Maintaining good liaison with Project Managers and Commercial & Procurement colleagues, providing relevant and timely information on Early Warnings and Compensation Events
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- Educated to degree level in relevant engineering discipline (desirable; civil engineering degree preferred) OR proven highways/structures maintenance/construction experience. Experience of working on high-speed Trunk Road/Motorway Networks is desirable
- Knowledge of site-based processes, relevant legislation, practices and policies for health & safety, environmental and quality management, including good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 of the Traffic Signs Manual and CDM Regulations.
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including stakeholder management, with a strong customer focus and managing geographically dispersed teams.
- Experienced in using the NEC 4 ECC form of contract.


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About us
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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