Construction Manager - Rigging Team in Reading
Posted by NRL Recruitment
Pay not stated
Reading · Contract
Previous experience working in highly regulated environments such as Defence, Nuclear, Infrastructure or Energy would be advantageous. Due to the nature of the project, candidates must be eligible to obtain security clearance and will be required to undergo relevant pre-employment screening and vetting procedures.
Job Title: Construction Manager – Rigging Team
The Role:
The Construction Manager will work within the Rigging Team and will lead the planning and utilisation of lifting labour covering multiple buildings across the construction area.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the planning and utilisation of lifting labour.
- Implement and organise the Lifting structure from Rigging Superintendent and below.
- Forecast and manage the resource levels to align with the construction activities.
- Conduct assessments and monitoring on the competencies of all lifting individuals for the project.
- Coordinate the lifting management for each of the construction zones and emergent scope of work.
- Ensure the correct records are submitted to record progress and productivity.
- Ensure the lifting team remain disciplined with the regard's productivity, time and attendance and adhering to the working arrangements.
- Promote and maintain health and safety, including site inspections to ensure safety rules are being implemented.
- Own the delivery of the lookahead program and drive the performance of the construction team to ensure targets are met, issues are identified and resolved.
- Stakeholder management and ensuring assumptions, give/gets are communicated and managed to promote an efficient installation programme.
- Ensure compliance with all nuclear safety and site licence requirements.
- Report on site orderliness, ensuring the areas work productively in a lean manner.
- Managing the discipline of the workforce to the required standards
- Ensuring compliance to the Working Agreement
- Ensuring daily returns are completed and issues are highlighted
- Ensure weekly & monthly reports are compiled and produced in a timely manner for upward review.
- Ensure by coordination with the superintendents there is sufficient resource to meet construction requirements are available in line with the delivery schedule.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Appointed person qualified and certified (CPCS blue card and ECITB Appointed Person TAP01).
- NVQ Level 3 ACE card qualified in steel erecting / moving loads. Desirable but not essential
- Can achieve Security Clearance (BPSS or Higher).
- IOSH Managing Safely/SMSTS/SSSTS.
- Experience working on major construction projects at a senior level.
- Strong leader, pro-active and perform well under pressure
- Experienced in delivering and operating at a Senior Leadership Level, including experience working within Joint Ventures.
If you’re an experienced construction and lifting professional with a strong track record of leading rigging teams on major projects, apply now to take a key role on a significant, long-term engineering programme within the UK Defence sector.
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