Construction Assurance Manager

Sophos Projetos & Sistemas; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Construction Assurance Manager, where you will lead a team ensuring compliance and efficiency in highway maintenance projects. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee significant construction activities, ensuring they meet the highest standards of safety and quality. You will play a crucial role in managing resources, verifying contractor compliance, and recommending process improvements. If you are passionate about construction management and ready to make a tangible impact on the infrastructure, this position is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to contribute to safer and more reliable journeys for all road users.

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing civil engineering works and highway maintenance.
• Strong understanding of health & safety legislation and quality management.

Responsibilities

• Manage resources for supervision and inspection of construction works.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and rectify defects.

Skills

Construction Management

Health & Safety Compliance

Contractual Awareness

Risk Management

Education

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)

Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS)

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

About your job

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Assurance Manager to join our Scheme Delivery team in the Northwest region. Reporting directly to the Construction Manager, the Construction Assurance Manager will provide management, coordination, and construction assurance by leading a team of Site Supervisors overseeing H&S compliance of highway major maintenance and minor improvement schemes being delivered by Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF), Pavement Delivery Framework (PDF) and third-party contractors across the region.

Please note additional and/or unsociable working hours including night working may be required occasionally for which there will be paid overtime and/or a nightwork uplift.

This role can be based at one of our National Highways locations either: Warrington or Preston.

• Management of resources engaged in supervision and inspection of works in accordance with contractual terms, and management and coordination of post-completion activities including overseeing preparation of the H&S File.
• Assuring the completion of planned works to the required standard including compliance with the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) and Manual of Contract Documents for Highways Works (MCHW) along with identifying and managing the rectification of defects and certifying completion of works.
• Verifying contractors comply with HSE Legislation including the CDM Regulations and ensuring the Principal Contractor's duties under the CDM regulations are properly discharged.
• Recommending improvements in the development of related processes and approaches, as well as proactively identifying opportunities for efficiencies in the construction of schemes.

About you

• Experienced in construction management of civil engineering works, highway maintenance and structures related projects.
• Good understanding of site-based processes, relevant legislation, practices and policies for health & safety, environmental and quality management, including knowledge of DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM Regulations and NEC4 contracts.
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) is essential.
• Good contractual and commercial awareness with understanding of supply chain contracts (preferably NEC4) and risk management.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft programmes such as Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint etc.

About us

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.