Senior Construction Manager
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About the Role
Mace seeks a Senior Construction Manager for a large-scale mixed-use development in Riyadh. The role involves leading on-site construction operations, managing contractors, and ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee day to day construction operations across assigned areas, ensuring delivery in line with programme, budget, and quality expectations
- Act as a key interface between contractors, consultants, and the wider delivery partner team to drive coordination and resolve site issues
- Monitor contractor performance, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, methodologies, and approved construction plans
- Champion health, safety, and environmental standards, embedding a proactive safety culture across all site activities
- Review and validate construction methodologies, sequencing, and logistics plans to support efficient delivery
- Manage and coordinate interface points between disciplines, packages, and stakeholders to minimise disruption and rework
- Provide leadership and direction to Construction Managers and site teams, fostering a high performance, collaborative environment
- Support progress reporting, risk management, and mitigation strategies, ensuring timely escalation of key issues
- Contribute to commercial awareness on site, identifying potential risks, variations, and opportunities for improvement
- Ensure delivery aligns with project governance, quality standards, and client expectations
Requirements
- Degree qualified in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Extensive experience operating at Senior Construction Manager level within major construction or infrastructure projects
- Proven track record working within a PMC, consultancy, or delivery partner environment on complex, fast paced developments
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, logistics, and multi package coordination
- Demonstrated ability to manage contractors and drive performance on large scale site based projects
- Deep commitment to health, safety, and quality standards
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
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Project Overview
- This is an opportunity to work on one of the largest programmes in Saudi Arabia. This unique project consists of major mixed use development including sports facilities, entertainment, and arts along with all associated infrastructure.
You’ll Be Responsible For
- Lead and oversee day to day construction operations across assigned areas, ensuring delivery in line with programme, budget, and quality expectations.
- Act as a key interface between contractors, consultants, and the wider delivery partner team to drive coordination and resolve site issues.
- Monitor contractor performance, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, methodologies, and approved construction plans.
- Champion health, safety, and environmental standards, embedding a proactive safety culture across all site activities.
- Review and validate construction methodologies, sequencing, and logistics plans to support efficient delivery.
- Manage and coordinate interface points between disciplines, packages, and stakeholders to minimise disruption and rework.
- Provide leadership and direction to Construction Managers and site teams, fostering a high performance, collaborative environment.
- Support progress reporting, risk management, and mitigation strategies, ensuring timely escalation of key issues.
- Contribute to commercial awareness on site, identifying potential risks, variations, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure delivery aligns with project governance, quality standards, and client expectations.
You’ll Need To Have
- Degree qualified in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience operating at Senior Construction Manager level within major construction or infrastructure projects.
- Proven track record working within a PMC, consultancy, or delivery partner environment on complex, fast paced developments.
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, logistics, and multi package coordination.
- Demonstrated ability to manage contractors and drive performance on large scale site based projects.
- Deep commitment to health, safety, and quality standards.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Experience working on large, technically complex developments is highly desirable.
- Necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and have relevant work experience working on high valued projects/ programmes for a project management consultancy business.
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