Senior Construction Manager

Summary

• Senior Construction Manager
• Based at Manchester Airport
• Permanent role

Why MAG?

At MAG we provide the airport facilities and travel services that people need to connect with the world. As the largest UK owned airport operator, we serve over 60 million passengers a year from Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands Airports. With over 270 destinations across the globe, our businesses not only bring people together but also support the prosperity of the regions in which we operate.

Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We’re committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities.  Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities.

At MAG, we recognise creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues and we are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits including:

• Bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Free parking
• Subsidised public transport
• Huge range of company discounts
• Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Care Concierge service
• Two volunteering days per year

The role

As a Senior Construction Manager you will be responsible for the ensuring the safe delivery of Projects across the Airport Campus primarily ensuring appointed contractors undertake their duties under CDM 2015.  As a Designated Competent Person you will lead on all Capital Accident/Near Miss Investigations reporting findings direct to the Head of Project Delivery and sharing learnings across the business.  You will need excellent stakeholder management as you will be working collaboratively within our Capital Delivery team, maintaining strong engagement with the Operational teams whilst overseeing delivery and acting as the first point of contact for all MAG Framework Contractors.

Safety needs to be at the forefront of all Capital projects while meeting customer and stakeholder operational needs and constraints, protecting the business from operational and commercial disruption.

Being the Senior Construction Manager, you will be accountable for HSE Specific Responsibilities, these will include:

• Quality of Pre-Construction Information completeness and content from Asset records for historic H&S File information.
• Ensuring completeness of the Designers’ Risk Register and contribution to the Design Risk Meetings.
• Review adequacy of the Construction Phase Plans.
• Maintain register of F10s and monitor expiry dates.
• Manage the Safe Start process for the site to ensure that the construction phase is fit to commence and fully compliant.
• Conduct regular site inspections and report on MAG Safeport.
• Review H&S File Part 1 for completeness and accuracy; coordinate the PA3 Process with Assets stakeholders.
• Oversee construction site incident investigations to ensure that they reach appropriate root causes and remedial actions.
• Appointed as the NEC Supervisor during contract delivery , responsible for ensuring construction quality is maintained by the appointed contractor.

What will make you successful in the role?

You will need to be experienced in project delivery in a complex, operational, safety regulated environment, and understand test and commission and handover phases of infrastructure projects. Like we say, safety is key, so you will need a thorough working knowledge of UK health, safety and environment legislation and it’s application to construction delivery. We also need you to have:

• Working knowledge of NEC contract form and client/pm/supervisor obligations under the various NEC models
• Experience of value engineering/value management approaches and their use to deliver best value technical solutions
• Desired  – professional affiliation (e.g.: RICS; APM; CIOB; RIBA, ICE or similar)
• Strong contractual/commercial awareness, with an understanding of risk apportionment/management and whole life value.