Senior Project Construction Manager

Location
Woking, United Kingdom
Category
Engineering
Date Published
09/06/26
Status
Open
About you:

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If you have world\-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future\-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

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Our purpose and beliefs:

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It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best \- for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

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Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity \& inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.About the job:

We are seeking a Senior Project Construction Manager to play a pivotal leadership role from the earliest stages of a major project, offering a unique opportunity to influence delivery from concept through to completion. Unlike traditional construction roles, this position is embedded at the front end of the project lifecycle, adopting a “right\-to\-left” execution approach. Based initially in Woking for the first 12–18 months, you will work closely with engineering, supply chain, and project management teams to ensure the project is fully constructable, shaping construction strategy, optimising sequencing, and resolving potential issues early.

During this phase, you will play a key role in defining how the project will be built, contributing to core design decisions and ensuring alignment with execution plans, including the future site location (TCF). You will lead constructability efforts, oversee Path of Construction and Advanced Work Packaging, and manage a specialist team, while also overseeing the Site Construction Manager responsible for early works on site. This is a role with genuine influence, where you will help shape the project rather than inherit decisions made by others.

As the project progresses into later engineering stages, the role will transition internationally, relocating to Saudi Arabia (around month 19\), where you will take overall responsibility for the construction phase. Maintaining a strategic leadership focus, you will drive coordination, performance, and stakeholder alignment, while site teams manage day\-to\-day execution. This is a long\-term 50\-month project offering continuity, senior leadership exposure, and the opportunity to see a complex brownfield development through from concept to completion, alongside the added benefit of tax\-free earnings during the overseas phase.

Skills \& Responsibilities:

• Strong leadership capability in managing large\-scale EPC greenfield and brownfield projects


• Extensive experience in construction management within live operating environments


• Deep understanding of construction, completions, commissioning, and operability integration


• Ability to apply a “right\-to\-left” delivery approach (backward planning from handover to design)


• Strong knowledge of engineering, procurement, and project controls alignment


• Expertise in Saudi Aramco standards, procedures, and specifications, Including Construction Safety Manual and CSI scoring requirements


• Strategic planning and execution oversight capability across full project lifecycle


• Strong stakeholder management and interface coordination skills


• Ability to lead multidisciplinary construction teams and oversee contractor performance


• Experience with shutdown planning, execution, and brownfield modifications


• Strong focus on safety, quality, cost, and schedule delivery

In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad\-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management. These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization. The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently. All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

• Provides strategic direction across all construction activities from early engineering through to full field execution, ensuring constructability, AWP and sequencing are embedded from the outset


• Leads mobilisation of the construction organisation, including recruitment and deployment of the Site Construction Manager, Area Construction Managers, AWP team, Shutdown Manager, Constructability Manager, Pre Commissioning and Handover Manager, and discipline leads


• Holds overall accountability for safe and predictable construction delivery in line with HSSE, schedule, cost and quality objectives across both home office and site phases


• Champions a zero accident culture, ensuring HSE in design, SIMOPS planning and control, SSMS deployment and full compliance with Saudi Aramco standards, procedures, Construction Safety Manual and CSI requirements


• Builds and maintains strong senior level relationships with client PMT and operations, representing the company at executive forums, management reviews and progress meetings


• Acts as the primary construction authority within the project, advising engineering, procurement and project controls on sequencing, constructability, IFC prioritisation and site execution constraints using a right to left delivery approach


• Leads development and implementation of the Construction Execution Strategy, Path of Construction and AWP program, aligned with the project schedule, contractual milestones and execution framework


• Maintains accountability for delivery across all execution phases, including shutdown planning, outage coordination, SIMOPS management, pre commissioning and handover readiness


• Provides leadership to the construction management team, setting clear objectives, performance expectations and accountability against project KPIs


• Oversees contractor and subcontractor performance across multiple work fronts, ensuring effective interface management within a live brownfield operating environment


• Coordinates execution across multiple locations and work areas, managing subcontractors and construction work fronts within a complex operating facility


• Identifies and resolves construction constraints, schedule conflicts, brownfield interfaces and SIMOPS challenges, escalating key issues to the Project Director with clear recommendations


• Accountable for construction cost performance, including productivity, earned value and change control, and supports commercial evaluation of variations and claims


• Ensures construction methodologies, procedures, lifting plans, shutdown plans and work packs are compliant with project requirements and Saudi Aramco standards


• Ensures all construction governance systems are implemented and consistently applied, including permit to work, SIMOPS, AWP, quality control, document control and materials management


• Plans and manages the full construction lifecycle from early set up through mobilisation, execution and demobilisation, aligned with manpower plans and workface requirements


• Maintains close alignment with the Project Director and functional leads across engineering, procurement and project controls to ensure an integrated delivery approach


• Leads construction input into commissioning, completions and handover, ensuring systems are delivered in line with turnover and operational readiness requirements.


• Reports regularly on construction performance, including HSSE, schedule, resources and commercial status, providing structured input to client and internal reviews


• Acts in alignment with Project Director authority, escalating decisions where required in a timely and structured manner


• Maintains current knowledge of Saudi Aramco standards, regulatory requirements and EPC construction best practice, including developments in AWP and execution methodologies


• Demonstrates leadership behaviours aligned with company values, setting clear expectations for performance and professionalism across the cons

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