Description:
Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Construction Manager to build new futures.
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale civil engineering projects in various locations throughout Scotland you will work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
As a Construction Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:
- Leading the project team and manage the supply chain to deliver projects to time, cost and quality targets and standards.
- Ensure safety targets and standards are maintained by:
- Knowing what safety excellence looks like and communicate safety with passion and credibility in order to inspire, motivate and lead the project team to achieve the vision.
- Fostering a continuous improvement culture by actively seeking input from all members of the project team and encouraging them to implement safety improvements.
- Ensure sustainability targets and standards are achieved by:
- Knowing what safety excellence looks like and communicate safety with passion and
- Actively engaging with the customer to understand and deliver their key sustainability objectives.
- Promoting Sustainable Solutions around all operations, particularly those related to efficient management of Waste, Energy and Water
- Leading effective Community Engagement Plans and Skills Programmes where required
- Ensure that project plans and schedules are robust and optimise project resources and timescales and are communicated effectively to the project team
- Manage Sub Contractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and progress; providing direct instruction and support as necessary such that contractual arrangements are achieved.
- Participate with the management of internal/external design team/consultants to meet project deadlines under supervision from a Contract or Project Manager if required
- Appreciate the commercial implications and drivers within the construction process and incorporate these into decision making working closely with the Project Surveyor
- Liaise with the Project Manager or Contract Manager to ensure they are fully aware of project progress and is notified of all financial, specification and time risks ensuring that all additional work is identified
- Assist with people management and resourcing of the project
- Proactively assist with managing the customer relationship during delivery, including change and decision making to effectively manage expectations
- Ensure the Company and Divisional procedures and policies are followed by the relevant teams, i.e. the Business Management System, including the Process Operating Model
- Ensure Defects and any post completion issues, if applicable, to maintain a positive customer relationship and repeat business performance levels are managed
- Embrace learning and development opportunities
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities