Construction Manager
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £54,180 i £64,120 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 7UA |
| Cwmni: | National Highways |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6253_1751482864 |
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About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Manager to join our team in the Yorkshire and Northeast region. The construction Manager will lead resources and activities involved in collaboratively overseeing and assuring quality and H&S compliance in the delivery of construction works through our Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) contractors, Pavement Delivery Framework (PDF) contractors, Maintenance & Response (M&R) Contractor and 3rd party contractors, including appointed Principal Contractors. A key part of this role will be bringing together over 30 contractors to successfully construct a large portfolio of schemes totaling around £60m annually. The role may be required to work unsociable hours.
This role is based at our Wakefield office.
Managing suppliers and staff to assure safety, quality and efficient delivery of construction.
Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers, employees and all parties involved in projects are fully considered and accounted for throughout the construction process.
Provide leadership, direction, and line management for the Region's in-house Construction team.
Proactively identify and implement continuous improvements which eliminate, reduce, or provide greater control for risks arising during construction.
Provide subject matter input and inform solution design and work packaging to reduce / eliminate risks to health and safety and improve buildability during construction.
About you.
Educated to degree level in relevant engineering discipline (desirable; civil engineering degree preferred) OR extensive highway/structures construction experience
Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS)
Experienced in CDM compliance through construction activities.
Detailed understanding of Highways contracts and technical standards including temporary traffic management (Chapter 8)
Valid Driving License (Essential)
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
- Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
And finally
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