Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy to a Construction Manager to join its busy team at the LLW Repository in Cumbria.
The Construction Manager is responsible, on behalf of the Project Delivery Organisation (PDO) / Senior Responsible Owner (SRO), for successful delivery of all Project construction activities across the Repository Site Portfolio, as well as acting as Principal Contractor under CDM Regulations. The Construction Manager Co-ordinates construction activities with the Programme and Project Managers and Plant Owners recognising and managing the Project’s inter-dependencies including oversight of any risks and issues arising.
Roles and Responsibilities
- To produce a construction team that is resilient, agile, embraces change and is ready for the future.
- Ensure good relationships are in place across all construction and operational work fronts.
- Ensure close working and professional relationships with business as usual. These are of paramount importance to ensure not only regulatory compliance, but deliverability, pragmatic and agile ways of working are embedded in our everyday working environment.
- To listen and accept constructive feedback on all construction management ways of working, in line with a learning organisation and thus improving the performance from the team.
- Liaise and interface with the Principal Designer as Principal Contractor under CDM Regulations.
- Lead a team of Construction Coordinators to ensure all construction activities are controlled and undertaken within the safe operating envelope of LLWR’s Safety Case and Business Management Systems.
- Provide coaching to construction team members and peers to contribute to professional and collaborative methods of working.
- Facilitate key Learning from Experience (LFE) activities post-construction.
- Lead interactive review processes to ensure construction documentation is fit for purpose and relevant to the construction activities.
- Ensure waste is correctly segregated to ensure compliant disposal.
- Awareness of the environmental issues associated with the role.
- Comply with RSP 12.16 Information Risk Management, with respect to information assets.
- To be aware of and abide by the company’s Standards and Expectations.
- Manage the risks within your scope of work in compliance with the company risk management procedures.
- To communicate with the Commissioning and Pre-operations Manager to plan and manage the installation/construction paperwork being handed over to the Commissioning and Pre-operations team.
Accountabilities/Authorities:
- To the Head of Programmes and Projects for the all associated PDO construction delivery activities
- To the SLC Board for ensuring that all construction activities comply with regulatory and legal requirements, including Nuclear Site License Conditions.
- To the Construction Team personnel to provide the right skills, tools and development for the roles they undertake.
- To the Construction Team to ensure that their working environment is safe and enjoyable.
- To act in a secure manner at all times, recognise potential consequences of personal behaviour and say if others fall short with respect to security.
- To the individual Programme and Project Manager’s to ensure that construction work is supervised, checked and accepted to a verifiable quality, together with integration of this work with that of other engineering.
- To the Head of Engineering to ensure that the installation/construction work is deployed as per design intent.
- Decisions regarding the management of construction activities. This should be based around discussion and reviews with the appropriate subject matter exerts. Using the experience of the construction team is essential.
- Decisions regarding the application of CDM regulations as Principal Contractor.
Experience Required
- Graduate (min 2:2) in relevant discipline or equivalent
- Possession of appropriate professional qualification, together with substantive relevant experience, or equivalent.
- A proven track record in construction management.
- Wide knowledge of procedures and methods relevant to his/her field together with full understanding of underlying principles.
- Able to communicate clearly and present in a professional, articulate manner.
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