Construction Assurance Manager

National Highways; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Construction Assurance Manager to join the South East region from the Basingstoke office. You will represent the company on civil engineering construction and maintenance sites, ensuring schemes meet time, cost, quality and safety standards while protecting customer experience.

You will drive on-site governance, coordinate with supply chain partners, and provide early warning insights to the Construction Manager.

Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering discipline or proven highways maintenance/construction experience.
• Knowledge of site-based processes, health and safety, environmental and quality management; familiarity with DMRB and MCHW.
• IOSH/SMSTS preferred.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to lead geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience with NEC 4 ECC contracts.

Responsibilities

• Assuring completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate concerns to the Construction Manager.
• Ensuring works comply with CDM, HSE, Chapter 8, DMRB and MCHW requirements.
• Provide regular feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, and early warnings to Project Managers; act as first point of escalation for on-site issues.
• Coordinate delivery programmes with key supply chain partners and perform buildability reviews on projects.
• Maintain liaison with Project Managers and Commercial & Procurement teams, providing timely information on Early Warnings and Compensation Events.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

On-site safety

Education

Civil/engineering degree (desirable)

Tools

NEC4 ECC contract

Job description

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Assurance Manger to join our team in South East region. The Construction Assurance Manager will play a key role in the delivery of National Highways Capital Investment Schemes by representing the companies 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 pride itself on its culture and this role will give you a varied, challenging workday, every day.

This role is based from our Basingstoke 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 escape 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 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.

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.