Construction Manager

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You are accountable for consistent, compliant installation performance on site. You own blue collar deployment, workface assurance, labour norm establishment, and field-level IMS implementation converting manufactured product into installed, tested, and commissioned systems on client sites. You lead through visible presence, standardised controls, and collaborative working with Project Managers, manufacturing, and engineering. Your focus is first time right delivery, programme certainty, and building client confidence through reliability and professionalism. You develop site supervisors and installation teams, embed lean workface discipline, and use digital tools (Dalux, P6) to drive evidence-based decisions and continuous improvement across all locations.

Explore your tasks and responsibilities

• Ensuring that robust Health and Safety systems and procedures are set out, adopted and adhered to at all times for relevant site activities
• Drive high levels of productivity through the management and control of installation norms
• Implement LFE and CI methodology in all undertakings
• Oversea the work of sub-contractors and in-direct labour ensuring safe and timely installation and commissioning
• Liaise with design and commissioning teams, ensuring effective construction methods take consideration of these tasks.
• Ensure continuous improvement in all areas of Health, safety, quality and environmental performance ensuring that management systems are in place to demonstrate control and development
• Engagement with project teams, quality team and planners to ensure robust construction plans are identified from the outset of all projects
• Continual reviewing of our site teams in terms of progress, abilities and quality of manpower/supervision
• Understanding of all the different trade agreements, allowances, expenses, bonus and lodging allowances for hourly paid labour
• Determine labour requirements to deliver the project efficiently.
• Ensure training is up to date and relevant. Also where required liaise with HR in managing site labour training register to ensure all core training and specialist training is captured
• Ensure we have a robust and fully SQEP’d workforce
• Resource loading activities to enable the controlling of costs and hours
• Overseeing any Union or IR issues that we may have from a site perspective and attendance at any required meetings
• Coaching of project teams to ensure effective and efficient site operations

Show your expertise

• NVQ Level 6 or equivalent
• Energy / Process Plant experience in delivering mechanical services.
• SMSTS
• CSCS Black Card
  
  

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Exentec Hargreaves is a specialist UK engineering and delivery business with more than 150 years of heritage in high-integrity, safety-critical HVAC and specialist ventilation systems. Known to many in the market through earlier names including Senior Hargreaves and M+W Hargreaves, the business has contributed to some of the UK's most demanding and recognised infrastructure programmes, including the Elizabeth line, Wembley, the Channel Tunnel and Chernobyl. Today, Exentec Hargreaves serves the Energy and Decommissioning, Defence, and Transport sectors through a 91% self-delivery model combining in-house engineering, a dedicated 8,000m2 manufacturing facility in Bury, and a directly employed, security-cleared workforce.

Backed by the global Exyte Group and sitting within Exentec (combined sales exceeding €6.4 billion, 10,700+ employees across 60+ offices worldwide), the business is actively extending its capability into Advanced Technology Facilities, Bio-Life Sciences, and integrated mechanical delivery.

Why Join Exentec Hargreaves?

Work on landmark UK infrastructure projects
Be part of a company with 150+ years of engineering excellence
Gain exposure to complex, safety-critical environments in energy, defence, and transport
Benefit from structured learning, mentoring, and professional development
Join a supportive and collaborative team culture that values innovation and quality

Our Core Competencies

Our five Core Competencies set the foundation for collaboration, learning and development. They will help turn our Vision and Values into action; provide a common language to talk about our skills; and offer a common basis to drive success across our business.

Grow Talent. Our goal as an organisation is to attract competent people, retain dedicated employees and develop talented colleagues within each operational level to build a future-ready company.
Drive Results. To keep and grow our strong market position, we must transform our corporate strategy directly into measurable and sustainable results.
Take Ownership. We strive to establish an appreciative culture in which all employees feel empowered and take responsibility.
Embrace Change. To develop products and services that go beyond what is imaginable today. We, as an organisation, must be agile. As individuals we must remain curious.
Inspire Customers. Creating value for our clients is a key component of our growth strategy. Therefore, client satisfaction should be an important motivator for us individually and collectively.

Exentec Hargreaves is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, religion, race, ethnic origin, disability, marital status or parental status. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.