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 the 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 co-ordinate 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.
About You
- Educated to degree level in a 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 a 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.
Why You Should Join Us
At National Highways, we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included, and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
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We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our Benefits Package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance-related bonus.
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%.
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays).
- Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working.
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary.
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days, and a network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service, and flu vaccines.
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel.
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring, and on-job experience.
And we are:
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), e.g., for caring responsibilities.
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme.
- Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year.
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
- Right to work check.
- 3 year employment history references.
- DBS criminal record check.
- Social media and adverse journalism check.
- Driving licence check (if applicable).
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable).
- Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable).
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