Site Construction Manager
The position requires a highly experienced construction professional capable of managing complex multidisciplinary interfaces, driving contractor performance, resolving site constraints and maintaining clear communication with both project leadership and client-side construction organisation.
The Construction Manager must combine strong field leadership with the ability to manage planning, priorities, resources, and interfaces across a major industrial EPC/EPCM construction environment.
Responsibilities
Lead and coordinate construction activities across the scope, ensuring safe, efficient and timely execution of the works.
Provide overall leadership to site construction organisation, including CSA, Mechanical, Piping, HVAC, Electrical, Instrumentation and associated disciplines.
Coordinate discipline leads, construction supervisors, contractors and subcontractors to ensure alignment with project priorities and execution requirements.
Ensure construction activities are executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, method statements, project procedures, and applicable standards.
Drive construction planning and readiness, ensuring engineering, materials, access, permits, resources, and contractor preparations are aligned ahead of execution.
Monitor construction progress against the approved schedule and work closely with Planning and Project Controls to identify delays, constraints, and recovery actions.
Lead multidisciplinary coordination and resolve construction interfaces between disciplines, contractors, vendors, and adjacent project areas.
Challenge and support contractors to maintain productivity, manpower levels, sequencing, and delivery commitments.
Ensure HSE requirements are embedded within construction execution and actively support a strong safety culture across the site.
Work closely with Quality teams to ensure inspection requirements, documentation, NCR resolution, and construction quality standards are maintained.
Identify construction risks, bottlenecks, and emerging issues early and drive appropriate mitigation and corrective actions.
Lead regular construction coordination and progress meetings with discipline teams, contractors, and relevant project stakeholders.
Provide clear and structured reporting to Project Management covering construction progress, key risks, contractor performance, priorities, and required interventions.
Maintain close coordination with the client’s Construction Management team and ensure effective communication between the EPCM organisation and the client.
Support constructability reviews, work-front planning, system turnover, commissioning readiness, and handover activities.
Ensure lessons learned and construction best practices are implemented consistently throughout the project area.
Key Attributes
Strong and visible construction leader with the credibility to manage experienced discipline leads, supervisors and major contractors.
Capable of taking ownership of complex construction issues and driving them through to resolution.
Strong understanding of EPC/EPCM project execution and the respective responsibilities of client, EPCM, contractors and vendors.
Excellent multidisciplinary coordination capability across civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation scopes.
Commercially and contractually aware, with a strong understanding of contractor responsibilities, scope boundaries and change management.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced major-project environment with multiple contractors, competing priorities and significant interfaces.
Strong communicator capable of working effectively with senior client representatives, project management, engineering teams and construction contractors.
Proactive and decisive, with the ability to identify problems early and implement practical solutions before they impact construction progress.
Experience Requirements
Significant construction management experience on major industrial, EPC or EPCM projects.
Previous experience operating from the EPCM or client-side construction management organisation, rather than exclusively within a subcontractor environment.
Strong experience managing multidisciplinary construction packages and contractor interfaces.
Demonstrable experience leading construction teams on large-scale heavy industrial projects.
Major heavy industrial project experience is strongly preferred.
Experience within projects involving major mechanical equipment, piping systems, structural steel, electrical systems and complex process installations.
Strong knowledge of construction planning, sequencing, contractor management, HSE, quality and commissioning interfaces.
Previous experience on greenfield megaprojects or large-scale industrial construction programmes highly advantageous.
Ability to operate effectively within an international project environment and communicate fluently in English.