Construction Director

4 weeks ago


Warrington, United Kingdom Vistry Group PLC Full time

Role Overview:
**In a Nutshell**

**Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you**
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Agile working arrangements possible for this role
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 days per annum
- Private Healthcare
- Company contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance - 4 x your annual salary
- Sharesave scheme
- Cycle to work scheme - up to £3000
- Support with a professional membership
- Denplan, GymFlex and many more

**In return, what we would like from you**
- Behave in line with our company values - Integrity, Caring and Quality
- A team player with the personality and intellect to make an effective contribution to the success and development of the business, as a member of the business unit board.
- An innovative thinker with the ability to identify and drive through positive changes.
- Focus on the importance of achievement of programme on business success.
- A wealth of experience working as an Operations/Construction Director or Head of Construction/Operations or equivalent.
- A strong operations and commercial leader with a proven track record of success working on new build housing contracts and multi storey residential apartment schemes ranging from £5m-£60m
- Strong technical knowledge of construction methodologies from inception to project completion.
- Understanding and competence of programme approach and software.
- Sufficiently competent in the use of IT to ensure processes, programmes and customer care initiatives are effectively followed.
- Knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and policies.
- Experience of PLC policies and procedures relating to BMS / Quality / Employment

**More about the Construction Director role **
- Provide advice and support in the securing of new work opportunities to ensure construction input is provided for all new housebuilding and contracting schemes.
- Work with the Technical Director to identify and minimise design, technical and production risk on new schemes during the pre-commencement process.
- Work closely with the new business and development team in order to ensure the business procures sufficient new work to meet the business plan.
- Work with new business/development team to bring sites into production in a timely and efficient way to meet business plan requirements
- Work positively with the Technical Director to ensure schemes are designed and have the necessary approvals prior to start on site
- Provide direction and leadership to a team of operations/contracts managers, project managers/directors, site managers and operatives on residential and housebuilding developments.
- Regularly monitor programmes to ensure delivery on time to budget and to highlight any risks at an early stage.
- Run an operational/production team of high achieving staff with focus on both production and commercial delivery of projects. Set aspirational targets and standards for the department to drive continuous improvement.
- Contribute to the value engineering and buildability of all projects.
- Commit to the highest standards of design, quality, safety and client satisfaction.
- Manage resources effectively and efficiently on site including directly employed operatives and plant.
- Drive programme and deliver to timescales by ensuring all interfacing departments work collaboratively.
- Work to make the operational side of the business as efficient as possible by establishing an initiative to reduce programme durations across our sites.
- Work with the Commercial team to engage with our supply chain in a proactive and commercial way to ensure business sustainability.
- Work closely with the Customer Service Manager to ensure our customer service levels are meeting or exceeding any targets set by the West and Partnerships Board.
- Board responsibility for quality of homes that we build.
- Member of the board with responsibility for health and safety, design and pre-construction, production and customer service.
- Contribute as board member to formulation and delivery of 3-year strategy.
- Produce board reports and papers as required
- Attend key meetings with clients and Joint Venture partners
- Work on business initiatives as required including representing the business at group forums.



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