Construction Manager

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

1/29/2025

Job Description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.

The role is key in terms of managing Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability and responsibility for CDM for managing compliance for all delivered construction work. The Construction Manager will lead on the management of quality, cost and timely delivery of all construction activity carried out on site through the leadership of Site Managers and on-site resources. Whilst being primarily focussed on managing construction deliver, the role must always adopt a wider pan-Alliance view, modelling appropriate Alliancing behaviours and leadership skills within integrated teams. The Construction Manager will manage their local construction delivery team to ensure all construction activities are provided in compliance with the scheme deliverables from a developed solution, through project milestones to project completion in conjunction with the Delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the site construction teams including directly employed operatives within their portfolios to deliver projects.
• Delivery of construction out performance within approved budget and to an agreed time frame – facilitate project construction kick off meeting and lead health checks.
• Responsible for the performance of tier 2 suppliers in relation to Safety, Time and Quality
• Take the lead with Constructability Reviews, Project Rehearsal and Fit for Assembly sign-off with the Project Installation and Assembly Manager (PIAM).
• Work with the Lead Construction Manager to establish long term resource needs, future view on resources and future (labour, plant and materials)
• Proactively inform or escalate any shortfalls or gaps in resources against the delivery plan and take appropriate steps to remedy.
• Ensure ongoing short-term planning of project needs to maximise resource utilisation. (labour, plant, and materials)
• Lead, manage and integrate the construction team including supply chain, all stakeholders and Customer.
• Compliance with Health & Safety legislation and policies, Construction Phase Plan, Environmental legislation and policies
• Complete regular CSIR audits and embrace teams to report all observations and near misses.
• Ensure all operatives of all tiers have the relevant training, valid accreditations, and training certificates to undertake the required construction activities.
• Utilise standard products & principles of assembly where possible.
• Ensure constructability reviews are incorporated into all schemes.
• Innovate using new products and technologies for the benefit of the @one Alliance.
• Seek new ways of implementing best practices from Partner home organisations and the wider construction sector.
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience of managing operational resources in a construction environment
• Water Industry construction experience
• Leadership skills
• Ability to operate at all levels to suit need and the situation.
• Able to manage conflicting demands.
• Inspires, encourages & supports the team to achieve critical tasks & outcomes.
• Adopts a can-do attitude & willing to be hands on if required to achieve the deliverables.
• HNC/Degree in Civil or Construction Management
• Site Management Safety Training Scheme
• Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme
• CSCS Card black minimum
• Minimum HNC or equivalent qualification i.e., NVQ Level 6
• Full UK driving licence
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

About The Team

Anglian Water has created a new delivery enterprise - the Strategic Pipeline Alliance. “SPA” is creating hundreds of kilometres of new, interconnecting pipelines to help combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across the Anglian Water region.

The new network is one of the largest infrastructure projects for a generation and is a complex and challenging major infrastructure project.