Job title:
Construction Manager
Location:
Gloucestershire, Bristol, Southwest Wales, Southwest England
Salary:
DOE
Benefits:
Company car allowance, Remote working and many more.
Our client are a leading Utilities business seeking a professional and experienced Construction manager to cover the South West Wales and England. The Construction Manager's role is to lead and influence a team of Trainee Project Managers, Project Managers, Senior Project Managers, and a Project Quantity Surveyor to deliver multi-utility projects to meet customer requirements. Job
Responsibilities
- Manage a regionally based team of Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers to ensure the timely, quality, and cost-effective delivery of the PM's portfolio of projects.
- Develop and maintain a strong PM team ethic ensuring consistency of approach and sharing of ideas.
- Promote and monitor financial/commercial performance across your team and report monthly
- Promote effective working strategies to ensure PMs can manage and update our systems on the progress and performance of their projects.
- Ensure the PM team are clearly and regularly communicating with customers and internal/external stakeholders.
- Carry out monthly PM one-one meetings to evaluate performance and review their project portfolio.
- Work closely with the Senior Management team across the business to share feedback and help with the continuous improvement of policies and procedures.
- Working with the HR Manager take responsibility for the day-to-day HR requirements of your team.
- Attend customer meetings to support the PM and provide the customer high level feedback where requested.
- Provide support to PM team where required to liaise with external stakeholders e.g. Local Authorities, Gas, Water, Electric Network Operators and Suppliers, Subcontractor's etc.
- Management of team headcount through retention and smart recruiting.
- Develop training plans for your teams to meet Company & Employee goals.
The above outlines the general duties and responsibilities, other reasonable duties may be assigned as required by management.
Candidate Requirements
- Previous management experience in a utility-based discipline
- Previous track record of managing and delivering on multiple projects and the related financial performance
- A good understanding of the new connection utility industry (Desirable)
- Previous track record of managing and delivering on multiple projects and the related financial performance
Qualifications
- Managing Health and Safety qualification e.g. IOSH or NEBOSH
- HNC e.g. In an Engineering discipline, ideally Electrical & Electronic engineering
- Business leadership/management qualification
- Previous utility-based skill qualifications
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