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Job Description
Head of Delivery (Framework Manager) - Environment
Rickmansworth
Affinity Water and Essex & Suffolk Frameworks
About us:
Galliford Try is one of the UK's most formidable construction businesses with a vision to be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Role Overview:
Due to the restructure of the Southern business, an opportunity has arisen for a Head of Delivery (HOD) to lead Operations within the Affinity Water and Essex & Suffolk Frameworks. As HOD and designated Framework Manager, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of a large programme of work via our Framework Agreements with Affinity Water and the Essex & Suffolk framework (under Northumbrian Water). You will lead a team in delivering large and technically challenging engineering projects, that involve Civil Engineering and MEICA works, reporting to the Operations Director for the region.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead by example to promote the highest standards of HS&E at all times.
* Work closely with the HS&E team to instil positive cultures and behaviours within your portfolio.
* Support, guide and manage the pre-construction team to compile robust but challenging bid pricing with risk & opportunities clearly defined and apportioned.
* Identify and provide mitigation against risk across a portfolio of projects through the project life cycle.
* Support the commercial team through the pre-construction phase to ensure contract terms are favourable to GT and provide robust protection to the company.
* Develop a delivery strategy for the programme of works within your portfolio, promoting environmental group strategies in our delivery.
* Work with the supply chain to build relationships to support the delivery strategy.
* Provide leadership and promote high professional standards and best practice across all functions.
* Manage customer and stakeholder expectations; develop and implement a stakeholder management plan.
* Responsible for contributing to the delivery of the Regional financial targets as agreed with the Regional Operations Director.
* Have accountability for the commercial performance of the portfolio of projects under your operational control.
* Ensure sustainable reduction in delivery costs, promote innovation to deliver the required efficiencies across our operations.
* Have a good understanding of commercial contract conditions, particularly NEC4, and have strong commercial awareness.
* Must have strong negotiation skills and be able to manage conflict.
* Develop and build teams to align with the regional organisational structure.
* Ensure performance standards are always achieved through KPI analysis and implementation of improvement plans.
Experience and Qualifications:
* Track record of effective staff development and employee relations.
* Programme Management experience.
* Excellent track record of HS&E performance.
* Preferably degree level qualified but not essential.
* Extensive knowledge of Water/Wastewater Treatment and Infrastructure construction sectors preferred.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* IT literate in Microsoft Office applications.
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.7 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals.
Our benefits:
* Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays.
* A wide range of corporate discounts.
* Cycle to Work schemes.
* Comprehensive pension plan.
* Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process. We encourage you to apply even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement of the role, as you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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