Senior Construction Manager
Salary: £63K P/A
Base Location: London Area
Salary: starting from £63,000 + annual bonus (up to 15%, performance based)
- Private Medical Insurance - Individual cover
- Additional salary enhancements: Business miles paid at £0.55/m for the first 10,000.
Full Time / Permanent (37 hours per week)
Further education opportunities - CIOB / MCIOB chartership programmes.
Closing Date: Wed 7th Oct
We are looking to appoint 3 x Senior Construction Managers , one per region, within the Core Portfolio team. Reporting directly to the Regional Construction Leads
As a Senior Construction Manager , you'll lead a Construction Unit responsible for delivering complex transmission infrastructure projects, combining strong leadership with excellent construction delivery and pre-construction capability.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead and manage a Construction Unit , overseeing the planning, coordination and delivery of multiple construction projects.
- Provide direct line management to a team of Construction Managers, with responsibility for coaching, performance, capability development and succession planning, whilst also providing leadership and oversight to indirect Construction Department team members, including Trainees.
- Ensure the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of works in line with programme, budget and quality expectations.
- Play an active role in pre-construction activity, including constructability input, programme planning, contractor engagement and risk mitigation.
- Work collaboratively with Project Management, Engineering, Commercial and HSQE teams to ensure seamless end to end delivery.
- Maintain strong oversight of contractor performance, supply chain relationships and stakeholder interfaces.
- Champion health, safety, environmental and quality standards across all site activities.
What you'll bring
- Proven senior construction leadership experience, managing teams within a complex delivery environment.
- Strong track record in construction delivery, alongside demonstrable involvement in pre-construction and development phases.
- Experience delivering projects within electricity transmission, power, or large-scale infrastructure, or transferable sectors such as civils, rail or major regulated infrastructure.
- Confident people leader with the ability to motivate teams, manage performance and drive a positive safety culture.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Sound commercial awareness, with experience managing contractors and controlling cost, risk and programme.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant Construction or Engineering discipline.
- Professional membership (or working towards) with a recognised body such as CIOB, ICE or similar.
- SMSTS (or equivalent).
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly to sites.
What's in it for you
- As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy several other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. Compensated business mileage which can be claimed at £0.55/mile up to 10,000 miles, £0.25 thereafter.
That's why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
- Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme - to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
- Plus, shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
- CIOB Chartership programmes available.