Construction Manager/ Director

At Dornan/ A Turner Company, are currently recruiting for a Construction Director for our new hyperscale data centre in Groningen (voted 5th best city to live in, in Europe)!

Reporting to the Project Director, the Construction Director will lead all construction activities along with schedule, safety, and quality at site level. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall effective management of the project execution from pre-construction through to final handover.

Preconstruction Phase:

• Support the MEP/CSA/Logistics teams to develop the area coordination for execution development and ensure the P6 program is reflective of same.
• Assist and support Tender Adjudications / bid reviews.
• Develop strategy for delivery of design and BIM execution plan to align freeze dates in line with IFC release.
• Support the recruitment of key team member through interview/selection/onboarding.
• Review and track preconstruction deliverables including technical submittals & drawing production.
• Drive improvement through constant review and analysis.
• Ensure lessons learned from other projects are implemented.
• Liaise with client and design team on procurement and engineering issues.
• Develop site wide logistics plan with the MEP and logistics teams.
• Maintain regular contact with project teams, ensuring support is given where required.
• Liaise with vendors, suppliers, sub-contractors, specialist designers, manufacturers with respect to the specification, validation and value Engineering of products and equipment to be supplied to the project.
• Support teams with the delivery of pre-construction deliverables, ensuring teams are delivering as per scope and programme.
• Assist project team with “Build it in a day work-shops” – These workshops are designed to ensure the site engineering team are familiar with their scope, understand how their scope is procured/validated / delivered and handed over.
• In consideration of the above and with the assistance of the Project Director develop the Project Execution Plan (PEP) through use of existing plans from other similar projects on the roster and making them specific for the Project.

Construction Phase:

• In line with the PEP, develop the project specific management plan RACI and assign the responsible parties per area in each case: Facility Services Area (FSA), Electrical Yard (EYD), MYD, DCH.
• Attend early-stage meetings / supporting the construction team during project construction phase kick off.
• Arrange and chair handover from the agnostic team to the project execution team.
• Attend project kick off meetings.
• Support the Project Director with the implementation of changes requiring design input throughout the construction phase.
• Ensure record information is collated as construction progresses, e.g., drawing redlines.
• Setup the lessons learned register and ensure it is updated on a quarterly basis and shared to the relevant parties.
• Ensure the PEP is implemented and updated as needed.

Handover

• Support the Operations Director and Project Director in the delivery of the project O&M.
• documentation and As-Built drawings.
• Ensure final design audit (if applicable) is carried out by the ED.
• Support Project Director in undertaking a lesson learnt review on the project and present these findings to the Operations Director.
• Ensure lessons learned are rolled out to new projects.
• Dedication to people management, managing a large team, managing performance, progress and setting KPI's.
• Provide mentorship to your team, including advising on training and development opportunities.

Why Dornan?

Our commitment to our employee's development - we offer career progression pathways, always seeking opportunities to promote and upskill our people.

Health & Wellbeing - Fostering health and wellbeing is paramount to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our commitment to mental health manifests through targeted workshops. We have a Health & Wellbeing Calendar, our Employee Assistance Programme, and the formation of a Wellbeing Network comprising over 80 trained Mental Health First Aiders.

Corporate Social Responsibility - We embrace our role in shaping a sustainable future and understand the significance of our impact. We are committed to delivering leadership in sustainability as ESG Citizens. With our expertise, we strive to reduce the environmental footprint of the communities we serve.

Benefits – from helping you to plan for the future to Health & Wellbeing services we continue our commitment to support our people

Diversity & Inclusion

We believe your career should only be limited by your own ambition. At Dornan we are proud of our dynamic workforce and will continue to recruit people from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and beliefs. Because we know that diverse organisations perform better.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:
We prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.

We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable – please direct all queries to the relevant Talent Acquisition Partner

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