Construction Manager - Mechanical

Skanska UK Plc; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Mechanical Construction Manager to join their Building Services team in Derby. In this role, you will be responsible for supervising site works and managing subcontract packages. You must have a current Managers CSCS card and experience in construction management. The position requires promoting a safety culture and ensuring all works comply with regulations. This role offers a chance to work in a vibrant environment dedicated to building a better society.

Qualifications

• Possess a current Managers CSCS card and relevant qualifications.
• Experience as a Construction Manager on similar projects.
• Knowledge of principal contractor responsibilities.
• Significant site-based managerial experience.
• Understanding of construction processes.
• Basic IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety culture and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Manage works according to principal contractor duties.
• Represent the company at meetings.
• Manage trade contractors and production of working drawings.
• Inspect works for compliance with design documentation.
• Implement commercial control within budget.

Skills

CSCS card

SMSTS qualification

Construction Management experience

Site managerial experience

IT skills (MS Office, Outlook, Adobe, BIM)

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an

inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Mechanical Construction Manager to join our Building Services team in Derby.

Working as a Mechanical Construction Manager you will be responsible for effectively and professionally monitor and supervise site works including subcontract packages. Deliver in accordance with CDM 2015 principal contractor duties, company procedures, programme requirements and project specifications.

What you’ll do:

• Promote the site safety culture, acting as ensure all works are carried out in planned, controlled and safe manner in accordance with statutory regulations, current standards and company health, safety environmental and quality standards.
• Manage all works in accordance with duties required to fulfil the principal contractor role under CDM 2015.
• Represent the company at meetings, promote the correct company image and ensure staff are aware of their responsibilities in this area.
• Manage the trade contractors including the production of working drawings, procurement and prefabrication and performance on site.
• Regularly inspect works for compliance with design, ensure all design solutions offered by designers and sub-contractors fully comply with the project documentation.
• Implement correct commercial control of contractors, within per-set budgets, ensure that contractual and claim correspondence is suitable, action within agreed timescales.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Be in possession of a current Managers CSCS card and other relevant qualifications including SMSTS.
• Suitable experience as a Construction Manager on similar size and type of build projects.
• Have experience and knowledge of acting as a principal contractor and the responsibilities that come with that.
• Have significant site based managerial experience and ideally management of people
• Thorough understanding of the construction process & sequence providing innovative solutions.
• IT skills - basic MS office/Outlook/Adobe/BIM.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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