Construction Lessons Learned Lead

John Sisk & Son Ltd; St Albans; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

26 days annual leave

Pension and benefits

Unlimited learning and development

Job summary

John Sisk & Son Ltd is seeking an Operational Lessons Learned Manager to lead the Group-wide framework, capturing, analysing and embedding insights from projects to drive future delivery improvements.

The role focuses on establishing governance, coordinating a Lessons Learned Council, and monitoring interventions to ensure tangible benefits across construction programmes and functions.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Experience facilitating workshops, reviews or continuous improvement activities.
• Experience working within construction, engineering, infrastructure or project-based environments.
• Experience producing reports and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of lessons learned methodologies.
• Experience conducting project reviews or post-project evaluations.
• Knowledge of organisational learning or continuous improvement frameworks.
• Understanding of project delivery processes within construction.
• Experience using data visualisation and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a Group-wide Operational Lessons Learned Framework.
• Establish standards, processes and governance for lessons learned activities.
• Create mechanisms to ensure learning from projects informs future project delivery, in collaboration with a ‘Lessons Learned Council’.
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of learning interventions and improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate Post Completion Reviews across projects.
• Develop approaches for capturing lessons throughout project delivery.
• Ensure lessons are consistently documented, categorised and communicated.
• Maintain a central repository of lessons learned and good practice.
• Identify emerging trends and recurring challenges.
• Establish and facilitate a Lessons Learned Council to review findings and prioritise improvement opportunities.
• Develop governance processes to track actions arising from reviews and lessons learned activities.
• Produce regular reports on learning trends, recurring issues and areas of excellence.
• Build strong relationships with project teams.
• Act as a trusted facilitator for discussions around project performance and learning.
• Work closely with Functional teams to ensure operational learning drives meaningful change.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Communication

Organisational skills

Analytical thinking

Workshop facilitation

Continuous improvement

Data interpretation

Tools

Data visualisation tools

Job description

John Sisk & Son Ltd is seeking an Operational Lessons Learned Manager to lead the Group-wide framework, capturing, analysing and embedding insights from projects to drive future delivery improvements.

The role focuses on establishing governance, coordinating a Lessons Learned Council, and monitoring interventions to ensure tangible benefits across construction programmes and functions.