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Construction Manager - Public Sector Projects
We are recruiting for a skilled and passionate Construction Manager to join our Public Sector Projects division. This role is an exciting opportunity to lead a team in delivering a critical floor refurbishment at the iconic Manchester Town Hall. As the Construction Manager, you will be responsible for the successful completion of this heritage project, ensuring it meets all required standards and timelines.
You will be responsible for site coordination, liaising with the base and managing subcontractors. The Construction Manager will assist in pulling together logistics phase plans and support scope writing and package planning and procurement activities on the project. You will ensure the job is built in a safe and productive manner and will apply programme and budget controls ensuring that minimum requirements are observed, company procedures are followed, and our client’s objectives are delivered.
Key Responsibilities
- Key Member of the Construction Delivery Team: Collective responsibility for the safety of all site operations.
- Review and Adjudicate: Safe working methods and method statements.
- Monitor Health & Safety: Documentation and complete safety inspections.
- Ensure Compliance: All contractors are implementing method statements and operating safely.
- Direct Construction Work: Ensure that all supply chain contractors are coordinated and working to the construction programme and detail.
- Monitor Progress: Of construction works and amend the methodology in light of unforeseen circumstances to ensure that overall completion dates are met.
- Develop and Implement: A clear plan of action to achieve the above.
- Review Build Quality: With the team ensuring that the client’s requirements are fully met.
- Construction Daily Diary: Keep an accurate record of all notable issues and events on site including resources, weather, stoppages, incidents, and the like.
- Site Engineering and Surveying: Take lead responsibility for the management of the site engineering and surveying package and ensure attendance by the contractor on a regular and sufficient basis.
- ITP and QA Process: Take lead responsibility for the ITP and QA process and ensure that all contractors are aware of their obligations and that they are adequately complying with the Bovis systems and procedures.
- Understand and Respect: The needs of Bovis’ diverse workforce and clients.
- Problem Solving: Makes sense of information, analyses problems logically and recommends effective solutions.
- Creativity and Systematic Thinking: Thinks creatively, conceptually and systematically.
- Decision Making: Reaches smart conclusions. Makes firm and difficult decisions, fairly and compassionately, blending the best intuition and data.
- Team Player: Works with others to build effective team and wider-team relationships.
- Drive and Energy: Act with a ‘can do’ attitude to do a better job and continually improve own performance, puts drive and energy into achieving results, takes action to exceed goals and expectations.
- Leadership: Lead by example and creates an environment which motivates others to learn and develop to meet their objectives.
- Short Range Programmes: Develops short range programmes with the team and supply chain to support delivery of the works against the project delivery programme.
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Essential Credentials
- Appropriate CSCS card for the role
- Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role
- SMSTS – 5 Day
- Have, or be working towards, a related Chartership such as CIOB
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours
Essential Skills
- Written and verbal communication to influence and build relationships
- Ability to read and understand programmes, design drawings and details, project scopes and specifications.
Essential Knowledge
- Knowledge of the construction process and construction methods including operational safety systems
- Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards and procedures
- Commercial and financial understanding in the above context – ability to contribute to value engineering as part of the design process
Essential Experience
- Experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
- Pre-construction and site establishment experience
- Background in design, construction & delivery process including technical Construction/engineering skill with a main contractor on projects above £30m in value
- Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects safely
- Experience of managing field construction activities on major/complex projects
- Experience in construction, including a sound knowledge of Construction methodology, process and sequence
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Essential Behaviours
- Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player
- Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision
We Will Provide:
- Car allowance
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution
- Private medical health benefit
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
- 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
- Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
- 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
- Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nationwide
- Industry leading parental leave
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We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm. We are a disability inclusive employer. If you need any adjustment or changes to the process, email us to let us know if you have a preferred communication method.
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Bovis is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or disabled.
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