Fleetwood Site

Country/Region: United Kingdom

Murphy is recruiting for a Assistant Construction Manager to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, as part of the AMP8 programme.

Murphy is a long-standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water, Bristol Water, South East Water, and Uisce Éireann, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.

A day in the life of a Murphy Assistant Construction Manager

• Assist with the management of project teams during the construction and installation phase of the project.
• Assist with the co-ordination of constructability input during solutions identification and development phase.
• Assist with the co-ordination and allocation of construction staff to projects ensuring that appropriate construction and installation staff are appointed to individual projects: based on experience, skills and knowledge.
• Liaises with the Construction Manager to ensure that the construction resource pool is an appropriate size, with an appropriate blend of skill-sets, for the projected workload.
• Overall management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials.
• Ensures that the construction and installation teams are accountable for their performance against agreed schedules and man-hour budgets.
• Ensures that all construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety Legislation.
• Ensures that the duties of the Principal Contractor are discharged in accordance with the CDM Regulations.
• Ensures that all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with agreed quality procedures.
• Interfaces with the all other functional leaders within the organisation to facilitate successful development of the project from solution stage constructability through construction, installation, commissioning and handover to the client.
• Ensure regular input from the Construction / Project Manager is gained on third party, environmental and public relations issues.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• HNC Building Studies or a degree in Civil Engineering/Construction Management.
• Background in construction.
• First aid qualification is desirable.