Senior Construction Manager (Roads, Civils and Utilities)

Overview

The Project

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Drive safe, high-quality, compliant delivery while championing well-being, inclusivity, and strong health and safety standards.
• Build trusted client and stakeholder relationships, translating strategic vision into clear delivery plans.
• Uphold ethical, fiscally responsible project governance and embed long-term strategic value.
• Empower teams through guidance, knowledge sharing, and best‑practice delivery excellence.
• Manage a strong health, safety, and well-being culture, ensuring compliance, rigorous audits, and effective critical controls.
• Build trusted client and stakeholder relationships, translating strategic vision into clear delivery plans.
• Oversee multidisciplinary coordination, stakeholder engagement, and district-wide interfaces to drive safe, high‑quality delivery.
• Ensure adherence to execution plans, standards, and documentation while resolving design or contract gaps.
• Provide clear reporting, lead project meetings, and champion continuous improvement across delivery activities.
• Manage day-to-day site operations, ensuring safe systems of work, effective method statements, strong permit-to-work controls, and robust supervision of contractors.
• Monitor on-site progress, identify issues early, and implement corrective actions to maintain programme, quality, and safety benchmarks.
• Oversee multidisciplinary coordination, stakeholder engagement, and district wide interfaces to ensure seamless, high-quality delivery.
• Ensure strict adherence to execution plans, technical standards, inspection and test plans (ITPs), and project documentation, proactively resolving design or contract gaps.

You’ll Need To Have

• Degree‑qualified with professional membership (MCIOB, MAPM, MRICS, MICE) and strong technical, commercial, and sustainability awareness.
• 15+ years’ experience delivering complex, large‑scale infrastructure projects, including roads, highways, utilities, and major civils works.
• Demonstrated leadership of multidisciplinary delivery teams, stakeholder engagement, and robust project governance.
• Excellent communication skills with proficiency in enterprise‑level project management and reporting systems.
• Our values
• Safety first - Going home safe and well:
• We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of well-being in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise:
• We own the quality of deliverables and strategic outcomes and build long-term relationships with our clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing:
• We influence positive outcomes within our industry while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel:
• We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
• Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.
• Even if you feel you do not fulfill all the criteria, please apply, as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.
• We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
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