Construction Director

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Site Based Construction Director on the Operational Team based in Aberdeenshire and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
Reports to: Project Director, PT&D

As a Construction Director you will have the skills and competence to;

• Influence, create and articulate strategy through to implementation.
• Holds overall accountability for construction of substation projects, ensuring constructability at all stages (design/development to commissioning).
• To provide management, leadership and inspires a multi-disciplinary team to achieve common goals.
• To determine the most appropriate means of satisfying customer/project/portfolio requirements, objectives and constraints: time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits.

• Report on pre-construction and construction performance and benefits realisation
• Assess the suitability of the project construction at all stages aligns with the business and stakeholder objectives
• Supervise all construction/design team involved to provide feedback and resolve complex problems
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in legislation
• Manage the structure, focus and discipline of the Construction Team
• Ensure and maintain resource levels required for successful programme delivery
• Ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project plans, such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled deadlines
• Escalate any issues that cannot be resolved at delegated level of authority
• Accountable for KPI’s in line with project objectives and monitor performance
• Champion ways to enhance efficiency and productivity of procedures and people
• Maximise the use of planning & project controls tools to establish realistic baselines throughout the team
• Ownership of budget, cost control and cost recovery, setting project/portfolio targets accordingly
• Advocate consistency and reliability of digital data to support successful project delivery – data driven decisions