Senior Construction Delivery Manager - Mechanical

Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West), Sizewell C (located in the South East), helping develop technologies in SMR (Small modular Reactor) capability and working towards building Poland's first Nuclear Power station.
Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.
The Senior Construction Delivery Manager will support the delivery of an area within a specific section of the Works. This responsibility extends to all construction and related activities, reporting to the Area Construction Lead and includes logistics planning and implementation in collaboration with the site wide logistics team, programming and planning, monitoring and close out of authorities' obligations and conditions and client liaison.
This role will include night shift working. Key responsibilities will be:

• Acting as a subject matter expert in their area of expertise (Mechanical / Construction), support the contract partners in their delivery of the works packages
• Provide support to the Construction Delivery Managers by recommending temporary measures to mitigate against safety and/or quality concerns
• Drive works on site and ensure contractor performance is in line with the agreed programme. Escalate concerns to the Area Construction Lead and provide solutions to recover/mitigate
• Review the construction daily site logs to ensure information is reported to the required level of detail up through the organisation to the Area Construction Lead
• Proactively communicate/co-ordinate with site functions (H&S, quality, surveillance, commercial, project controls, logistics) and other Senior Construction Delivery Managers to maintain good communication links
• Collaborate closely with the contract PM's to provide support and guidance for responses to contractual correspondence
• Fulfil line management responsibilities to Construction Delivery Managers
• Regular attendance at meetings with the contractor to ensure that short term planning is in line with the overall delivery schedule

Here's What You'll Need:

• Experience and knowledge in delivering projects with multiple stakeholders
• Good understanding of the post holder's obligations under the CDM Regulations.
• Able to write informative, concise and meaningful reports and present the findings in a professional way to peers and senior managers.
• Experienced in motivating and energising contract partners by building an environment of trust and understanding, actively seeking alternative views and opinions.
• Possess excellent organisation and communication skills.
• Qualifications in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Construction management, or equivalent vocational training and experience.
• SMSTS or IOSH qualification holder.
• Collaborate with other managers, providing leadership to effectively manage site operations.
• Adopt a results-focussed mind set, using initiative and taking personal responsibility and accountability to ensure necessary action is taken to deliver excellence, value and quality

Our Culture
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