National Highways
Construction Manager

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About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Manager to join our team in the Yorkshire North East region. The construction Manager will lead resources and activities involved in collaboratively overseeing and assuring quality and H&S compliance in the delivery of construction works through our Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) contractors, Pavement Delivery Framework (PDF) contractors, Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contractor and 3rd party contractors, including appointed Principal Contractors. A key part of this role will be bringing together over 30 contractors to successfully construct a large portfolio of schemes totaling around £60m annually. The role may be required to work unsociable hours.
This role is based at our Wakefield or Darlington office.
- Managing suppliers and staff to assure safety, quality and efficient delivery of construction.
- Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers, employees and all parties involved in projects are fully considered and accounted for throughout the construction process.
- Provide leadership, direction, and line management for the Region’s in-house Construction team.
- Proactively identify and implement continuous improvements which eliminate, reduce, or provide greater control for risks arising during construction.
- Provide subject matter input and inform solution design and work packaging to reduce / eliminate risks to health and safety and improve buildability during construction.
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- Educated to degree level in relevant engineering discipline (desirable; civil engineering degree preferred) OR extensive highway/structures construction experience
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS)
- Experienced in CDM compliance through construction activities.
- Detailed understanding of Highways contracts and technical standards including temporary traffic management (Chapter 8)
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.


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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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