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Durham Tees Valley Airport
Costain
Head of construction
Posted: 28 October
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Job Description

Reporting to the Project Director this is a Senior project leadership role who will be responsible for the safe delivery of the construction phase of the project on programme and right first time. In summary the Head of Construction will be the SPA person for the planning and delivery of the Construction Phase of the project scope. Providing strong safety and technical leadership to their Team, and efficient management and co-ordination of the Facilities contractors. With a strong multi-discipline construction and technical background, they will provide leadership and direction to their team and on the resolution of site issues which could impact progress. The Senior Construction Manager will work closely with the Package Managers and Facilities contractors to resolve performance issues and blockers to progress.

Responsibilities

* Lead the construction team (team of circa 40) and the 2 x Area Construction Managers in their duties.
* Promoting a positive safety culture and right first-time quality culture
* Ensure the works are effectively planned, co-ordinated and delivered
* Ensure that the work readiness and control of work procedures are in place and effective for all works
* Monitor site progress and support and enable the Facilities Contractors to successfully deliver
* Ensure compliance with bp requirements and the Costain way.
* Work closely with the Package managers to ensure the Facilities Contract packages are safely delivered on time and co-ordinated with other Facilities Contracts
* Work closely with the HSE and quality team to ensure contract requirements are met.
* By the point of contact for any Union engagement

Qualifications

* Experience as a Construction Manager/Project managing the delivery of large scale, multi discipline scopes of work.
* 10 Years plus in a Senior/Lead Construction Management Role in an oil and gas, pipelines or energy/process plant environment
* HNC/HND or Technical/ Trade engineering qualifications.
* Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management (IOSH, SMSTS for example)
* CSCS/CCSNG Card
* In depth experience of installing buried pipelines and process pipework in controlled environments.
* Detailed experience of onsite Construction Management and safe delivery, to time, quality and budget
* Detailed knowledge of Safe Systems of Work, Construction Phase Plans, risk assessment and construction hazards
* Experience of projects within brownfield and live operating site environments
* Experience of management of site subcontractors with civil, mechanical, electrical and site controls systems.
* Understanding of Engineering and Construction Principles construction techniques and best practices
* Proven team-working skills with the ability to motivate and lead a team
* Commercial knowledge and experience.
* Understanding of Procurement and Supply Chain impacts.
* Strong communication skills
* Industrial Relations Management
* Experience of managing technical and programme interfaces with adjacent and interdependent projects

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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