Pre-construction Manager

7 days ago


Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time £40,000 - £60,000 per year
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Christian Held
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Pre-construction Manager

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We're looking for a Pre-Construction Manager to join our Natural Resources team. In this role you'll be procurement officer for our new 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: Hybrid working with occasional visits to the Falmer office, East Sussex and sites across the Southern Water patch

Hours: Permanent, Full Time – flexible hours are available if preferred, just let us know upon application

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Pre-Construction Manager to join our NRNN water team working on our Southern Water framework. In this role you will be the framework senior leadership team member driving efficient delivery during the Pre-Construction phase of the programme of our strategic delivery partner framework. Accountable for leading Design, Procurement and Proposals ensuring timely delivery of stage 1 (outline design) submissions that provide affordable solutions aligned to SWS budgets.

In your day to day, you'll:

  • Embed GIRI into day-to-day routines during the Preconstruction phase, facilitating workshops and design development sessions
  • Ensure collaboration between disciplines under your direct control to drive an integrated approach between Design Management, Procurement and Proposals teams.
  • Facilitate liaison between Operations, Commercial and Pre-Construction teams to ensure attainment of overall programme.
  • Manage the process of developing high quality proposals, coordinating all elements of the submission preconstruction process, including cost planning / estimating, design, operational, programme and bid writing.
    Accountable for implementing our Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) process stages 1 – 4, ensuring governance is undertaken from opportunity identification to handover.

What are we looking for?

This Pre-Construction Manager role is great for you if you have:

  • Demonstrable leadership skills: trusted, focused and collaborative.
  • Excellent understanding of the pre-construction process, interpreting client requirements and converting them to outstanding project solutions that deliver technical, quality, budget, programme, and sustainability targets, whilst achieving sustainable business margins.
  • Have a strong knowledge of NEC contracting and experience of bid coordination.
  • Knowledge and experience of project management techniques and the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, Word, Power-point and Outlook)

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1

  • SWS Pre-Construction Manager - Job description_BR

  • Location: Falmer. Chatham

  • Vacancy ID: 8853
  • Background check: None
  • Flexible Working: Yes

    Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
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