Construction Manager
Job Description
Job title: Construction Manager
Company: Jacobs
Job description: At Jacobs, we’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
As a part of Jacobs’ Construction and Logistics Advisory team, you will support the successful delivery of projects by providing constructability expertise, primarily during outline design and consent phases. You will provide expertise to help create the construction strategy, phasing, methodology and programme, taking account of and integrating emerging environmental and logistical constraints and construction best practice.
The role will involve liaison between other Jacobs departments, disciplines, contractors and external agencies and clients.
Role details, Skills, Experience, Behaviours
You will be required to provide technical input mainly during pre-construction, including:
- Temporary works,
- Lifting and plant solutions
- Earthworks and mass haulage
- Traffic management
- Construction logistics
- CDM and Principal Designer, Principal Contractor obligations, or other local regulatory responsibilities
Responsibilities typically entail producing the constructability input for specific projects including drafting option assessments, assessing construction risks with proposed mitigations and provision of best practice advice. Key to the role is informing the design and enabling for a more buildable and safer solution. You will need to be able to work independently and take initiative.
You will need a broad range of experience in many areas of construction and be able to identify risks, propose mitigation and support the team in resolving. Dependant on the project, you will be expected to lead the construction and logistics advisory role as a sole representative.
The Construction Manager is required to co-ordinate, co-operate and liaise with other Jacobs departments, contractors, clients and potentially external bodies primarily for the purposes of design development. As such, you will require confidence, good communication and management skills to ensure that the constructability input is conveyed appropriately and given due consideration.
- An appropriate degree or diploma as well as membership of an appropriate professional body, or working towards
- You will have a demonstrable track record of on-site experience directly delivering a broad range of multi-sector construction or engineering projects and sectors e.g., mechanical, nuclear, marine, rail, aviation, infrastructure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
- Ability to draft credible, deliverable construction sequences and schedules, taking into account client requirements, shut-downs, closures and possession availability, logistics, and environmental constraints.
- Experience using digital tools including 4D modelling and drafting schedules would be advantageous.
- Experience of modularisation, virtual design and construction (VDC) and digital construction is advantageous
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s –
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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Expected salary:
Location: London
