Overview
WORKING HOURS: Full time (5 days per week / av. 45 hours per week). This is a studio-based role and therefore no flexible/hybrid working option.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £65,000 - £68,000 (including London weighting). Salary is dependent on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Purpose of the Role
One of the UK’s most ambitious and iconic soaps, EastEnders, is looking for a Construction Manager to join the team. Working to the EastEnders Series Designer, you will manage and coordinate construction teams to ensure delivery of the highest quality studio sets and fully maintained front and back lot set spaces.
The EastEnders construction team is a mix of staff members, freelancers and external contractors spread across studio, workshop, and front and back lot. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring productivity, wellbeing and a clear, planned pattern of work with excellent communication and feedback.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
* Manage multi-skilled construction teams, ensuring proactive leadership, effective communication, and high-quality performance across all team members.
* Interpret designers’ technical drawings, create and manage construction schedules and budgets. Forecast crewing levels to meet building requirements, ensuring workflows meet tight production schedules and are deliverable on budget, reporting any additional spending need to Design Manager.
* Lead on construction methods to ensure all builds are planned and managed correctly and are compliant with relevant legislation including planning consent, building regulations and CDM 2015 regulations, as well as the BBC’s own health and safety policies.
* Oversee external contractors and liaise with local authorities and the site permit office as needed. Manage planning, plant maintenance, material collections, and workshop programme coordination with the support of the workshop supervisor.
* Collaborate with the Series Designer, Block Designers, Props and Setting Manager and the Production Scheduler to ensure achievable workflows to support editorial ambition. Work closely with scenic artists to achieve specific textures, ageing and finishes for the camera.
* Ensure all construction activities, particularly those involving machinery or working at heights, comply with health and safety regulations.
* Ensure confidentiality, maintain financial records (petty cash/credit card), complete necessary worksheets, inspect and snag sets, and ensure scenery is weighed, labelled and properly recorded before leaving the workshop.
* Manage trainees and apprentices and record their progression to ensure they meet development needs. Support development, performance and training across the wider team as required.
Your Skills and Experience
* ESSENTIAL CRITERIA: Extensive, demonstrable experience of working in construction across TV, film, theatre or the wider creative industry.
* Demonstrable complex project management experience and proven leadership skills. Experience of managing and coordinating large teams with varying duties and contract types.
* Proven experience of taking a creative and resourceful approach to problems and finding solutions within a high pressure, constantly changing environment, and can evidence delivering sets to time-pressured schedules.
* Proven experience of creating and managing budgets, cash flow and spending.
* Must have excellent knowledge of health and safety standards with proven qualifications in risk management and safe working practices, RAMS, and industry-specific safety knowledge.
* CDM 2015 regulation knowledge; excellent understanding of legal responsibilities under construction (Design & Management) regulations.
* Desirable qualifications: degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or Building Surveying. Vocational qualifications such as NVQs or Level 3 Diplomas in Carpentry, Joinery, Plastering or Decorating.
Note: If you meet some of the above skills and experience, we’d still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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