Construction Manager - EV industry - City of London, London

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages/responsible for the build plan, reporting all and any key issues and considerations, that might impact delivery to the Leadership Team.
• Develops close working relationship with build partners and suppliers to ensure a smooth delivery which is both on time and to budget.
• Develops close working relationship stakeholders to ensuring all necessary approvals are in place to allow works to commence.
• Support the Customer Director ensuring they have all necessary information/progress will all aspects of the build process
• Support the Planning Team by using experience, knowledge and skill to ensure sites are feasible, especially in relation to the DNO connection and IET CoP.
• Feed any requested/agreed information to the PMO Team within the agreed timeframe.
• Delivery of all required project metrics/reports to the required standards and in a timely fashion.
• Lead in defining the delivery programme plan.
• Support the project from a Heath & Safety prospect, ensuring the project is being delivered safely and in line will all and any regulations set out by the HSE

Skills

• Self-starter
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Exhibits resilience, patience and understanding
• Good computer and literacy skills including Windows based software programmes Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Ability to handle large volumes of site verification requests (DNO and IET CoP).
• Ability to handle all supply partners in a professional manner.

Experience

• Proven experience: as a build manager in the UK, ideally within a similar sized business or one that has been through a similar journey
• Ideally the candidate would have proven experience in electric vehicle infrastructure deployment.
• Expertise working in the public highways (including a good understanding of Section 50s licenses) in addition to the deployment of power and fixed telecommunication infrastructure
• Experience with street lighting infrastructure roll out and maintenance.
• Proven experience / understanding of DNO related activities including cable location, sizing and identification procedures.
• Experience of document management.
• Experience in delivering a plan using supply chain.