Construction Manager

POSITION SUMMARY: Responsible for the overall planning, management, coordination, and safe execution of project construction activities across all disciplines and work areas. Leads the construction management team, directs contractors, manages interfaces with the Client and project functions, and ensures that the works are completed in accordance with contractual requirements, approved design documents, safety and quality standards, schedule milestones, cost objectives, and turnover priorities. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide leadership and overall direction to area managers, discipline engineers, inspectors, superintendents, and construction support personnel. Develop and implement the project construction execution plan, organization, work priorities, site procedures, and reporting requirements. Manage civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, utilities, infrastructure, building, and associated construction activities. Coordinate construction interfaces with engineering, procurement, contracts, project controls, quality, safety, environmental, logistics, commissioning, and operations teams. Direct and monitor contractor performance, mobilization, manpower, equipment, materials, productivity, work sequencing, and compliance with approved plans. Review construction schedules, look-ahead plans, critical-path activities, constraints, forecasts, and recover plans, and initiate corrective actions where required. Chair construction, progress, interface, and coordination meetings and ensure that actions are assigned, tracked, and closed promptly. Serve as the principal construction interface with the Client, contractors, subcontractors, authorities, and key project stakeholders. Resolve major site issues, discipline conflicts, access restrictions, constructability matters, and competing work-front priorities. Monitor construction budgets, commitments, installed quantities, productivity, resource forecasts, and cost variances in coordination with project controls. Provide construction input to contract administration, claims, variations, field changes, back charges, invoice certification, and contractor performance evaluations. Ensure timely availability of approved drawings, specifications, materials, permits, method statements, and work fronts. Oversee mechanical completion, punch-list clearance, system turnover, commissioning support, as-built documentation, and construction closeout. Prepare and present accurate construction status reports, risk assessments, forecasts, and recommendations to project leadership. Mentor construction personnel, establish accountability, and support workforce development and succession planning. Assign construction priorities and resources within the approved project organization and delegated authority. Stop unsafe, unauthorized, or noncompliant work and require corrective action before resumption. Review and endorse construction recommendations, progress assessments, change proposals, and contractor submissions within delegated authority. Escalate decisions affecting project scope, contract value, key milestones, or Client commitments to the Project Manager or Project Director. Safety, Environmental and Quality tasks: Champion the project’s zero-incident philosophy and visibly lead compliance with environmental, health, safety, and security requirements. Ensure contractors implement approved safety plans, risk assessments, permits, lifting plans, and corrective actions. Confirm that construction complies with approved drawings, specifications, applicable codes and standards, quality plans, and inspection and test plans. Ensure nonconformances, defects, and recurring quality issues are investigated, corrected, and prevented from recurrence. QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or an equivalent recognized qualification. Minimum 15 years of relevant construction experience, including significant experience managing multidisciplinary teams and major contractors. Strong knowledge of construction execution, contracts, planning and scheduling, cost control, change management, quality systems, and regulatory requirements. Experience with large infrastructure, industrial, utility, or building projects; knowledge of marine works and related construction activities is an added advantage. Demonstrated leadership, negotiation, decision-making, risk management, problem-solving, and client- interface capability. Excellent written and verbal communication, reporting, presentation, and team-development skills. Show more Show less