Construction Manager

The role of Construction Manager plays a crucial role in ensuring the total performance of the Construction team's role in producing a quality product in a safe environment for the customer and the Construction team, with on-time delivery, to budget along with excellent customer service.

This role of Construction Manager reports to the Head of Construction.

Principal accountabilities of the Construction Manager role include:

Motivate, support and manage Site Managers by providing training, coaching and support as required to improve performance
Control preliminary costs in accordance with the budget
Plan and programme work methods and build sequence on sites of responsibility
Regularly visit sites and attend weekly sub-contract meetings with the Site Manager and Housing Association representatives ensuring that all necessary resources and information are made available to achieve programme dates or any target dates that may be set from time to time.
Inspect the quality of work during the construction process and give advice and support to Site Managers as required
Inspect record books on site relating to health and safety, NHBC, Customer Plot Files, Building Control records, plant and machinery records and scaffold records
Ensure that costs are controlled efficiently and that all resources are being used effectively
Keep up to date with customer care issues on sites to enable discussion with a view to getting any issues resolved in a timely manner

Experience of working as a Senior Site Manager or Construction Manager within the high volume house builder
Experience of health and safety obligations, building legislation and NHBC standards
Qualifications and Training

Relevant CSCS card
SMSTS certificate
Construction Management Level 4+ apprenticeship is desirable
Full UK driving licence
Skills and Aptitude

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of people
Ability to liaise with internal and external personnel
Able to plan and programme work methods and build sequences for sites
Control preliminary costs in accordance with the budget
Good administration skills
Able to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Ability to work on own initiative, with excellent attention to detail
Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
Committed to diversity and inclusion
The Role and Working Conditions

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success, and we are committed to building an inclusive culture that values and respects difference combined with creating a safe and inclusive working environment for all colleagues. This means we are positive about making adjustments as well as providing flexible working and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you., There is an exciting opportunity to join Bellway, one of the UK's largest house builders. Our Durham Division, located in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland is looking to recruit a Construction Manager to join the Division's Construction team.

Willing to be flexible with respect to day-to-day duties and hours worked
Daily travel to development sites and Divisional Head Office
In return we can offer you:

Competitive salary
Competitive car allowance
Optional salary sacrifice car scheme
Competitive annual bonus
Contributory pension scheme
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
Access to discounts and benefits portal
ShareSave Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Life assurance
Purchase Holiday Scheme