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.