Clever Construction Engineers and Project Managers

The Role

Purpose of the role 

A project is a set of activities delivered in sequence each being managed by different people/organisations. This is why the plan is always at the core of the project. 

So the first thing you will learn to do is project planning. This means you will be at the core of the project devising strategies and tactics to improve the way the project is delivered. You will translate this knowledge into a logic-linked plan and analyse it using planning software. Then you will use this knowledge to help the teams understand what they need to prioritise to make the project as successful as possible. If the project were a ship you would be the navigator 

Team 

This role is part of our Project Management Consultancy which focuses on: 

Understanding what the real problems of projects are 

Implementing the best solutions to those problems 

Developing scalable best practices, tools and technology 

More specifically you will be part of our Project Planning Discipline Team who are industry leaders in the planning of complex construction projects. Your initial leader will be one of our planning discipline directors. 

Your top 3 objectives 

To make construction projects deliver to near perfection 

To create scalable and repeatable solutions to common problems 

To develop yourself and everyone around you 

Your top 5 responsibilities 

Own the plan: Own the project plan for one or more projects and ensure that the project is working to it effectively. Ensure delays are mitigated and managed commercially 

Own the outcome: You may not be the project manager ultimately responsible for the results but you are sure as heck responsible for putting in your best effort to ensure the project’s understanding and focus on the plan no matter how stubborn they are 

Report and inform: Provide simple actionable reports to stakeholders at all levels that help them deliver their part of the project more efficiently and effectively 

Make scalable solutions: Develop scalable and repeatable best practices and tools in collaboration with the team so that long-term impact is achieved 

Develop everyone: Maximise the development of your team personally and professionally and educate our clients to improve as well. (even if you are junior you can help your leader develop too) 

Your Capabilities 

We train you in the full breadth of project management skills including planning, commercial, leadership, communication and technology so that you become an expert project leader equipped to transform any project you touch. 

Must-Have (The fundamentals) 

Mastery: Construction engineering background with at least 2+ years of experience on construction projects 

Communication: Proficient communicator in written and verbal English 

Leadership: You lead yourself proactively and lead others by asking the right questions and challenging them 

Impact: A track record of making projects and organisations better beyond just doing the basics 

Nice to Have (If you don’t have it now you will be trained intensively after joining) 

Mastery: Decent Excel skills and a strong interest in data, experience in project planning both software and principles 

Communication: The charisma, influence and presence to get construction people to do new things and take the best approach 

Leadership: A proven leader/coach/developer of teams or teams of teams 

Impact: A track record of implementing scalable and repeatable solutions in projects and organisations that had a significant positive impact 

Laminar isn’t the place for you if any of the following is true: 

You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge 

You like to be the smartest person in the room 

You don’t like continuously receiving honest and candid feedback 

You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team 

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Frequently Asked Questions 

What kinds of projects would I be working on? 

It isn’t uncommon for people to be exposed to several projects in their first year of joining us. You will work on many types of complex projects including; data centres, highways, railways, nuclear power plants, and pretty much any other type of complex project you can think of. ()

Who are our clients? 

Our clients include major Owners/Operators, Main Contractors, and Subcontractors, with project values between £1m and £1B+ globally. 

Where would I be working? 

Some weeks you might be working from home all week. Others you might travel to site to meet the construction teams and help them get organised in person. Maybe you will pop into our London office for a workshop/beer/social event. Maybe you will travel to exotic (and sometimes not) locations in Europe or the Middle East to visit clients. It really depends on what you want to get involved with and what fits with your life. 

This where you work varies depending on what types of projects. Most of our team work predominantly from home with regular visits to projects. As an absolute maximum expectation, we attend projects 2-3 days a week if they are near where you live. But also be prepared to travel further afield 3 days every second week. 

How does what I do connect with the long-term impact on the construction industry? 

As a consultant in the field, you will be tasked with understanding and solving common problems. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel every time so you will be responsible for documenting new solutions and evolving existing ones we have developed. The improvement never stops. This will go into our knowledge repository which we are going to open source to the industry. 

The knowledge you capture will be used to develop new products which we will build. You will constantly be testing our products in the field so that we can rapidly iterate and improve them for anyone in the industry to use. 

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Salary and Benefits 

Standard Stuff 

Paid Annual Leave 25 days + statutory Bank Holidays 

Flexible hours 

Base salary for this role depends on your capability 

Pension & private health insurance 

IT Equipment 

All travel costs outside of your local area are covered 

The Life-Changing Stuff 

Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to give 5 years’ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a coach, mentor, well-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: That’s literally what our vision is all about and the primary reason Laminar exists 

Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that won’t be the case in Laminar. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in With Laminar, development is unbounded 

Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and outlast us 

A generous equity scheme: as a fast-growing consultancy as well as the fact we are building software this has a huge upside, particularly for people that stay with us through our growth 

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