Construction Manager

Kier Group; Brighton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group in East Sussex is seeking a Construction Manager to join our Southern Framework, delivering on the Southern Water contract with strong leadership. This role is based in East Sussex with 40 hours per week.

You will oversee pre-construction through detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover, ensuring safe and efficient delivery of Lot 2 projects and collaborating with internal teams and the client to meet programme objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading construction projects in regulated water sectors.
• Strong understanding of design and pre-construction to handover processes.
• Full driving licence required.

Responsibilities

• Being accountable for efficient delivery and SHEWS performance of Lot 2 projects in the region.
• Collaborate with preconstruction team and project managers to identify risks and develop delivery proposals.
• Provide buildability input to design teams during design phase.
• Establish temporary works requirements with operations and liaise with designers to factor time and cost into target costs.
• Coordinate with Southern Water Capital Delivery and other client stakeholders to agree proposed target costs.

Skills

Leadership

Driving licence

Water industry knowledge

Tools

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Job description

We're looking for a Construction Manager to join our Southern Framework based in East Sussex.

Location

East Sussex, Falmer

Hours

40 hours per week

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As one of the regional Construction Manager's on the framework, you'll be working on the Southern Water contract, supporting them with your leadership and management oversight of the projects in the Western sector of Lot 2 (waste water) portfolio. As a senior member of the team, your experience in driving and monitoring the safe and efficient delivery of the projects progress through pre-construction phase and onward through stage 2 (detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover).

In This Role The Day To Day Duties Include

• Being accountable for efficient delivery and the SHEWS (Safety, Health, Environmental, Wellbeing and Security) performance of the Lot 2 projects in the region.
• During preconstruction, collaborate with Kier's internal preconstruction team and project managers in identifying risks and developing methodologies and programmes to support Kier delivery phase price proposals to the client.
• Provide buildability advise to design teams during design phase.
• Establish alongside the operational teams, the temporary works requirements and liaise with temporary works designers to ensure time and costs are factored into Kier Target Cost.
• Collaborate with Southern Water Capital Delivery and other key client stakeholders including but not limited to ETS, Operations and Health and Safety teams to facilitate agreement of proposed target costs.

What are we looking for?

This Role Is Great For You If

• You have a full driving licence.
• You understand regulated clients, in particular those in the water industry.
• You've MS suite of applications (Excel, Word, Power-point and Outlook) skills.
• Your experience shows demonstrable leadership skills and an excellent understanding of the design and construction process.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.