Marine Construction Manager

SSE; Kingswells; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK is seeking a Marine Construction Manager to oversee offshore construction activities, ensuring safety and effective project management. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background and experience with large-scale marine projects, including subsea cable installation. This role includes leading a team and interacting with various stakeholders, promoting a culture of safety and excellence.

Benefits

Discounts on private healthcare

Gym membership discounts

Wellbeing benefits including online GP

Interest-free loans for tech and transport

Generous family entitlements

Qualifications

• Strong personal commitment to safety and industry standards.
• Extensive experience managing marine construction delivery on large projects.
• Demonstrable experience in stakeholder relationship management.
• In-depth knowledge of marine construction assets.
• Experience managing commercial and governance aspects.

Responsibilities

• Support as a key member of the Marine function team.
• Lead a high performing Marine construction team.
• Ensure Health & Safety compliance throughout operations.
• Participate in project HAZIDs and HIRAs.
• Act as the focal point for project marine construction activities.

Skills

Strong commitment to safety

Marine construction and engineering background

Relationship building with stakeholders

In-depth knowledge of marine construction assets

Managing commercial aspects of projects

Job description

The role

With the continued growth of the Marine function within SSEN-Transmission Offshore Delivery, we have an exciting opportunity for Marine Construction Manager to join the team. This is a key position, overseeing the offshore activities across the portfolio of projects in all aspects of marine construction, providing feedback on constructability during development and design, and overseeing from a project management level during the delivery phase.

You will

• Support as a key member of the core team within the Marine function, building enduring Marine construction capability, setting clear expectations and direction, and communicating these effectively to the project teams, vendors and contractors.
• Lead a high performing Marine construction team throughout your assigned project; ensuring the project has the right skills and competencies to meet the safe and efficient delivery requirements, timescales and budgets whilst successfully overcoming challenges.
• Take ownership of Health & Safety throughout the marine construction, ensuring risk identification and management remain a high priority, and all operations are delivered safely, efficiently and effectively, exceeding expectations and aligned with SSE Safety Culture and core leadership values
• Actively participate in project HAZIDs, HIRAs or other reviews, ensuring the right level of marine construction input is provided, and where embedded into the project team, contribute to the management decision-making process as it is related to marine construction activities, providing guidance to the project teams.
• Act as the focal point for all marine construction activity on their project, providing oversight of the marine construction progress throughout execution, supporting the project teams in relation to requirements, interfaces and safety of operations as well as weekly feedback to Senior Marine Construction Manager.

You have

• Have a strong personal commitment to safety; delivering all marine construction activities to Industry standards and best practice, Health and Safety Legislation and Company policies and procedures.
• A strong marine construction and engineering background with extensive personal experience managing the construction delivery of design, development and execution phases on large / mega projects, including subsea cable installation and offshore operations.
• Demonstrable experience in building close, trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, reviewing Constructability during the different stages of the project lifecycle, and have the ability to understand and oversee technical queries and impacts on the project.
• In depth knowledge of different types of marine construction assets and their mission specific equipment
• In-depth experience of managing commercial, governance and assurance aspects of marine construction projects, reporting weekly on progress, risks, mitigations, costs and programme.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition - to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around £10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. please contact Stephanie at or 01738 342963 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

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Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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