Senior Construction Manager

Senior Construction Manager

Salary: £63K P/A

Base Location: London Area

Salary: starting from £63,000 + annual bonus (up to 15%, performance based)

• Private Medical Insurance - Individual cover
• Additional salary enhancements: Business miles paid at £0.55/m for the first 10,000.

Full Time / Permanent (37 hours per week)

Further education opportunities - CIOB / MCIOB chartership programmes.

Closing Date: Wed 7th Oct

We are looking to appoint 3 x Senior Construction Managers , one per region, within the Core Portfolio team. Reporting directly to the Regional Construction Leads

As a Senior Construction Manager , you'll lead a Construction Unit responsible for delivering complex transmission infrastructure projects, combining strong leadership with excellent construction delivery and pre-construction capability.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and manage a Construction Unit , overseeing the planning, coordination and delivery of multiple construction projects.
• Provide direct line management to a team of Construction Managers, with responsibility for coaching, performance, capability development and succession planning, whilst also providing leadership and oversight to indirect Construction Department team members, including Trainees.
• Ensure the safe, compliant and efficient delivery of works in line with programme, budget and quality expectations.
• Play an active role in pre-construction activity, including constructability input, programme planning, contractor engagement and risk mitigation.
• Work collaboratively with Project Management, Engineering, Commercial and HSQE teams to ensure seamless end to end delivery.
• Maintain strong oversight of contractor performance, supply chain relationships and stakeholder interfaces.
• Champion health, safety, environmental and quality standards across all site activities.

What you'll bring

• Proven senior construction leadership experience, managing teams within a complex delivery environment.
• Strong track record in construction delivery, alongside demonstrable involvement in pre-construction and development phases.
• Experience delivering projects within electricity transmission, power, or large-scale infrastructure, or transferable sectors such as civils, rail or major regulated infrastructure.
• Confident people leader with the ability to motivate teams, manage performance and drive a positive safety culture.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Sound commercial awareness, with experience managing contractors and controlling cost, risk and programme.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant Construction or Engineering discipline.
• Professional membership (or working towards) with a recognised body such as CIOB, ICE or similar.
• SMSTS (or equivalent).
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly to sites.

What's in it for you

• As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy several other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. Compensated business mileage which can be claimed at £0.55/mile up to 10,000 miles, £0.25 thereafter.

That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus, shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
• CIOB Chartership programmes available.