Construction Manager

Job Description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is one of the UK's largest engineering, design, project management, and infrastructure consultancies, delivering major projects across transportation, buildings, defence, energy, water, and nuclear sectors.

Function: Construction. Reports to: Senior Construction Manager (functional and day-to-day). Direct reports: Supervisors and construction personnel allocated through the project organisation.

Manage and coordinate the safe, compliant and efficient day-to-day delivery of assigned work packages, sites, areas or shifts. Translate the construction strategy and programme into controlled site execution, supervise contractor delivery, coordinate interfaces and maintain progress, quality and site records.

Support the Senior Construction Manager in controlling safety, security, environmental, commercial, technical and contractual requirements. Work within delegated responsibilities and authority and the project Division of Responsibility matrix. TI 671 permits appointment of a Construction Manager to support the Senior Construction Manager where justified by project scale or duration.

Key interfaces: Site Engineers, Lead Construction Engineer, Quantity Surveyor, Planning, Project Controls, Safety, Quality, Environmental, subcontractors and suppliers.

About you

Essential

• Demonstrable construction-management experience in safety-critical or regulated infrastructure, including contractor supervision and multidisciplinary site coordination.
• Working knowledge of health, safety, environmental and quality requirements; ability to interpret drawings, specifications, programmes, Work Package Plans, Inspection and Test Plans and risk-control documentation.
• Experience monitoring progress and producing accurate daily site records; understanding of subcontractor management, variations, early warnings and change control.
• Strong site leadership, planning, communication and problem-solving skills, with evidence of current competence appropriate to the assigned scope.

Desirable or project-dependent

• Degree, higher technical or vocational qualification, or equivalent experience in construction, civil engineering, rail systems or a related discipline.
• Railway signalling or multidisciplinary railway construction experience; knowledge of possessions, access arrangements and Safe Work Packs.
• Appropriate Construction Skills Certification Scheme credentials and recognised site-management and construction-safety qualifications.
• Contractor’s Responsible Engineer competence where separately required and formally appointed. TI 671 allows a Senior Construction Manager or Construction Manager to undertake this role for self-delivered works, subject to the applicable nomination and competence process.

Your role

• Site delivery and coordination: Manage assigned activities and supervise contractors and subcontractors. Coordinate labour, plant, materials, access, logistics and interfaces with Site Engineers, Testing and Commissioning and other disciplines. Prepare work fronts before mobilisation; confirm approved drawings, specifications, work package documents, permits and competent resources before starting. Manage temporary and permanent site establishment, welfare, storage, security, housekeeping and traffic arrangements. Support overall site integration and escalate unresolved issues.
• Health, safety, security and environment: Lead the assigned area’s quality, safety, security and environmental arrangements through visible leadership. Confirm compliance with the Construction Phase Plan, Work Package Plan, Task Briefing Sheet, Safe Work Pack and permits. Review plans and methodologies as delegated; verify effective subcontractor briefings and controls. Monitor conditions, practices, access, plant and equipment; stop work for immediate or uncontrolled risks. Report close calls, events, unsafe practices, environmental incidents and trends; support investigations, inspections, audits and corrective actions. Confirm reasonable measures to prevent possession overruns, late handbacks, disruption, incidents and avoidable defects.
• Programme and progress: Coordinate detailed schedules; support the Level 5 construction programme and three-week detailed look-ahead. Sequence and resource activities, monitor actual progress and quantities, and record lost time, delay, disruption, access constraints and productivity issues. Take delegated corrective action, recommend recovery measures and escalate wider intervention. Replan deferred or incomplete work and communicate interface and milestone impacts. Provide timely, accurate updates to the Senior Construction Manager, Planning and Project Controls; attend daily coordination and weekly construction meetings.
• Quality and compliance: Deliver to required standards and approved-for-construction information, the Quality Management Plan, Inspection and Test Plans, method statements and work-control documents. Coordinate technical inspections, hold and witness points, testing and acceptance with Site Engineers; do not cover work or pass mandatory inspection points without acceptance. Protect and record defective work through the non-conformance process. Maintain configuration control, red-line information, field changes, technical queries and as-built records. Support audits, surveillance and formal inspections; record, allocate and close snags without substituting snagging for missing scope. Retain quality and handover evidence.
• Contractor and supply-chain performance: Control site interfaces and monitor subcontractor supervision, competence, labour, plant and materials against programme needs. Review daily safety, quality, environmental, programme and resource performance and delegated contractor reports; challenge inaccuracies or omissions. Communicate professionally, factually and impartially. Escalate persistent or material failures to the Senior Construction Manager and Commercial Manager or Quantity Surveyor; support performance reviews, corrective-action plans, lessons learned and continuous improvement.
• Commercial and change support: Understand assigned scope and contractual obligations. Record progress, delays, disruption, additional work and changed conditions; promptly report potential changes, early warnings and commercial risks to the Senior Construction Manager and Quantity Surveyor. Support assessment of variations, claims, early warnings, change requests and payment applications with factual time, resource, quantity and cost evidence. Verify progress and installed quantities as delegated; route commercial correspondence through designated arrangements.
• Materials, plant and logistics: Coordinate material availability, issue and use; work with the Materials Engineer and Site Engineers on orders and withdrawals. Confirm receipt inspections and compliant storage; identify and quarantine damaged, defective or non-conforming materials. Monitor usage, installed quantities, shortages and future needs; undertake storage surveillance and prevent loss, damage or deterioration. Ensure suitable, maintained and inspected plant is used by competent personnel. Manage laydown areas, access routes, lifting interfaces and deliveries.
• Risk and issues: Identify construction, access, safety, environmental, technical, programme and commercial risks. Communicate them to the Senior Construction Manager and enter them into the project process. Implement and monitor assigned mitigations; raise queries through the construction-log or technical-query process. Support risk workshops and planning reviews, estimate construction impacts and resource needs, and communicate unmitigated or residual risks at handover.
• Reporting and records: Prepare or ensure a daily site report for each supervised contractor during the shift, covering activities, labour, plant, resources, quantities, hours, delays, non-conformances, performance and safety matters. Keep records concise, factual and free of unsupported opinion; escalate discrepancies to the Senior Construction Manager and commercial team. Capture photographic/video evidence of progress, incidents, quality and significant conditions with project, location, date, time and required metadata; upload promptly to approved storage. Retain evidence for programme, payment, change, handover and audit purposes.
• Handover and completion: Plan completion, inspections, snagging, documentation and action closure. Confirm quality records, red-line information, test evidence and completed Inspection and Test Plans. Support handover to Testing and Commissioning and construction evidence for the Health and Safety File. Accurately report exceptions, omissions and incomplete mechanical elements; leave sites safe, secure and suitable for subsequent work or return to the asset owner.
• Team supervision and communication: Direct Supervisors and allocated personnel; confirm understanding of scope, controls, interfaces and authority limits. Monitor individual and team performance and provide feedback to the Senior Construction Manager; support development and mentoring. Promote collaboration with Site Engineering and subcontractors; participate in briefings, coordination meetings, inspections and leadership tours. Maintain relationships with client representatives, local stakeholders and interfacing organisations as required.

Authority: Within delegated limits, direct work, allocate activities, require correction of unsafe or non-compliant work and inadequate controls, stop unsafe work, review documentation and contractor records, verify progress, quantities and completion, and recommend recovery, rejection of defective work or escalation of concerns. Do not issue instructions or commit the organisation to scope, cost or programme changes beyond authority. Escalate matters exceeding delegated technical, contractual, financial or programme authority.

Success measures: Safe, environmentally compliant delivery; daily, weekly and possession commitments; installed quality and defects/rework; accurate, timely reporting; effective coordination; contractor productivity and programme adherence; prompt risk, change and performance escalation; complete quality, handover and closeout records; compliance with project procedures, TI 671 and delegated authority.

Rewards & benefits

 

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

 

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

 

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance.  If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. 

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

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