Construction Manager, Turnkey Structural Steel
4 days ago
Reporting directly to the MD and Head of Operations, we are looking for a Construction Manager with a minimum of 15 years working experience in Structural, Mechanical & Piping installation environment, and a minimum of 10 years’ experience leading a site team in a mid-size business.
Technical abilities required: Ability to read drawings; ability understand and implement technical specifications; excellent understanding of site processes; excellent understanding of key measurement and metrics which drive On Time, In Full, Always Safely; ability to analyse production and make improvements; computer literacy in Microsoft Office and STRUMIS.
**Position details**:
Type: Permanent.
Reports to: Managing Director / Head of Operations.
Construction Manager contributes to the purpose of the business by:
- Planning, controlling, and managing of site construction:
- the Staff
- Processes and Systems related to site construction.
- Coordinating:
- Safety
- Quality
- Site Works
- All above, to integrate seamlessly to achieve contract requirements and keep company customer promises
Top outcomes of role
- Project delivery dates are met (ON TIME)
- Installation targets are achieved (ON TIME)
- Quality targets are achieved (IN FULL)
- Safety targets are achieved (ALWAYS SAFELY)
- Building a highly competent site team (Right people, right seats, doing the right things, right)
- All site team members are well supported, performing in their roles, and coached on a weekly basis, were a positive culture is clearly evident within the team
- Fostering a culture of accountability in the site environment
- Achieving financial targets per project
Key Relationships
Within Your Company: Managing Director / Head of Operations / Project Managers / Planner / Management Team / Site Team
External to Your Company: Customers / Suppliers / Subcontractors
**Job description / core competencies**:
Site Planning & Management
- Ensure all installation is well planned & communicated, running effectively and efficiently
- Communicate weekly planning with Workshop departments
- Weekly production schedule to include
- prioritization of activities
- allocation of resources
- completion dates
- Weekly reconciliation of planned vs completed activities
- Meet PM’s project commitment dates by meeting site installation
- Achieving weekly, monthly and annual production targets
- Assessment of workload & capacity of teams, prioritizing, making sure that
- Our teams are at full capacity
- commitment dates are being met.
- Provide site-related technical advice and input into Projects.
Labour & Equipment Budgets
- Control of site labour & equipment budgets
- Improvement on daily, weekly & monthly budgets
- Total labour budget
- Labour Overtime budgets
- Equipment budgets
- (Proportional to budgeted tonnages)
- Labour & Equipment efficiency ratios
- From time to time, assist tendering department with realistic labour costing & timing
SHEQ Management
- Perform duties as per 16.2 Appointment.
- Site specific Safety Targets
- Monitor and analyze LTI’s and systems to ensure that targets set are effectively achieved
- Implementation of company Health and Safety System or Client specific Health & Safety System, including training, maintenance, system compliance and checklists, learning and improvements from incidents
- Ensure all appointed personnel understand their liabilities & responsibilities
- Ensure all appointed personnel are competent and able to fulfil their obligations in terms of their appointment.
- Overseeing and supporting Safety Officer in meeting targets
STRUMIS Implementation
- Drive the implementation to STRUMIS in all aspects of Site works.
- Use STRUMIS for doc control & material control.
- Driving the implementation of STRUMIS
Continuous Improvement (CI)
- Investigate site related problems and analyse the root causes.
- Implement and monitor enduring solutions to solve problems
- Lead continuous improvement efforts
- Lead implementation of industry best practices
Quality Assurance
- Ensure that all site-specific specifications are implemented and adhered to
- In conjunction with Quality Manager ensure annual recertification to ISO 9001:2015
- In conjunction with Quality Manager ensure production team is working to ISO 9001:2015 procedures
- In conjunction with Quality Manager monitor workshop errors
Maintenance and control of Equipment
- Ensure the servicing and maintenance of all site related equipment.
- Ensure maintenance is conducted, when planned and within budgets
- Complete annual equipment stock take ensuring asset register and safety equipment registers are up to date and correct by 28th February annually
Finances
- In conjunction with Head of Operations & Managing Director, responsible for setting Construction budgets aligned to Sales targets
- Taking appropriate action from the review of monthly Management Accounts
- Site works related to budget.
- Ensuring site systems are in place to control all extras and reworks
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