Job Title: Construction Assistant
Employer: Lloyds Banking Group
End Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Salary: £29,460 - £31,010
Location/Working Pattern: Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds; Hours: Full-time; Working Pattern: Hybrid (minimum two days per week or 40% of time on office sites)
Job Description Summary
As a Construction Assistant within the Future Workplace team, you will play a critical role in shaping the environments where our colleagues work, collaborate, and thrive. This role focuses on creating workplaces that are safe, sustainable, cost-effective, and designed for the future of work. You will support the delivery of construction and property-related projects aligned with the Group’s property strategy and ESG commitments, ensuring value, quality, health & safety compliance, sustainability, and an excellent colleague experience across projects.
You will work on major transformation programmes and day-to-day delivery, coordinating with internal teams and external partners to drive progress, governance, and on-track delivery. You will track budgets, timelines, and quality metrics, support tender processes, and embed sustainability and safety principles into decisions. You will provide commercially sound advice to balance risk and opportunity and influence key decisions.
Day to day, you will:
* Lead value management and continuous improvement across construction and workplace programmes to maximise value and return on investment.
* Align projects with strategic goals, including Zero Carbon 2030, inclusivity, and customer experience.
* Drive cost transparency, benchmark suppliers, and ensure competitive procurement.
* Introduce standard processes and innovation to improve speed, quality, and resilience.
* Oversee contract administration, valuations, and cost control.
* Provide commercially sound advice, balancing risk and opportunity.
* Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to deliver on time and budget.
* Report on KPIs and present insights to senior stakeholders.
* Support tendering, governance, and sustainability initiatives.
* Attend site meetings and inspections, ensuring compliance and quality.
Qualifications & Experience
* Quality Assurance: Capable of advising peers and suppliers on embedding pre-defined processes and procedures, using experience to judge when activities fall outside rules and how to address them.
* Creativity and Innovation: Ability to challenge current thinking constructively and turn ideas into reality; willingness to experiment and learn from results.
* Supplier Performance: Experience advising on supplier queries, promoting cost savings and reducing supply chain risk.
* Collaboration: Ability to build professional relationships across boundaries and work with diverse teams.
* Values & Behaviours: Future-focused, solution-oriented, growth mindset, integrity, and inclusivity.
* Data Literacy: Ability to design and apply data analytics to support decision making; promote a data-driven approach.
* Business & Commercial Insight: Understand market changes and their impact on the group; translate insights into practical actions.
Desirable Experience
* Experience in construction, property, or programme management.
* Understanding of value engineering, cost estimating and procurement.
* Ability to negotiate commercial outcomes.
* Understanding of technical elements of construction work.
* Familiarity with ESG principles and sustainable construction practices.
About Working For Us
We value inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from under-represented groups. We offer a wide-ranging benefits package including pension, bonus, share schemes, wellbeing initiatives, and generous holiday.
Benefits (highlights)
* Up to 15% pension contribution
* Annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies
* 24 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
How to Apply
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today to discover more about Lloyds Banking Group and our journey to help Britain prosper.
Equal Opportunity We are committed to building a values-led, inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.
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