Utility Delivery Manager

Skanska UK Plc; Norwich; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Utilities Delivery Manager to join their Infrastructure team in Norwich. In this pivotal role, you will lead the delivery management of utility works, ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and customer excellence are met. You will manage a team of Agents, Site Engineers, and Surveyors, optimizing operational activities to achieve key project objectives. This dynamic position offers the chance to work on major infrastructure projects, contributing to the development of a better society. If you have a passion for utility management and a commitment to excellence, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven utility management experience is essential for this role.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management experience are crucial.

Responsibilities

• Manage Utilities programme ensuring projects are delivered on time and to budget.
• Oversee performance of Statutory Undertakers to meet contract objectives.

Skills

Utility management experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Experience with National Highways projects

Experience with major infrastructure projects

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 Utilities Delivery Manager to join our Infrastructure team in Norwich. You will be supported by the Project Manager and management team. You are expected to take ownership and lead the delivery management requirements to join our project heading up the Utility Works Delivery, ensuring all works are delivered to the highest standards of safety, compliance, customer excellence, and commercial control.

What you'll do:

1. Managing Utilities programme of work ensuring that projects are issued, monitored, delivered (to cost and time) in accordance with scheme’s requirements.
2. Manage the performance of the Statutory Undertakers to ensure key contract objectives are delivered.
3. Manage the team of Agents, Site Engineers, and Surveyors to optimise operational activities thus ensuring key project objectives are delivered.
4. Management of Statutory Undertakers works area handover and works interface while ensuring CDM, safety and environmental compliance.
5. Management of Utilities Plant Protection requirements and Protective Provisions compliance.

What you'll bring to the role:

1. Previous utility management experience.
2. Statutory Undertakers and Stakeholder management experience with excellent communication skills.
3. Experience within National Highways infrastructure projects.
4. Experience with major infrastructure projects.

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.