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Delivery Manager

March 8, 2023 | Comments Off on Delivery Manager

We're looking for a Delivery Manager to join our Highways team based in Shropshire. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location: Shrewsbury / Oswestry / Craven Arms, Shropshire

Contract: Full time

Responsibilities

As Delivery Manager you'll be working within the schemes team, supporting them in managing a dedicated team of supervisors and site teams, planning/programming, managing and improving health & safety culture of site teams for reactive, routine, minor works, schemes, street lighting and structures ensuring works are delivered safely on budget and to delivery target dates.

Your day to day will include:
  • Managing all areas of highway works, including general highway construction works, structures schemes and environmental projects routine and reactive works, emergency response and winter maintenance and responsible for health safety and wellbeing of direct employees and the supply chain to meet and exceed SHE targets
  • Working with the relevant Quantity Surveyor to ensure works are built/delivered in the same way they are priced and where necessary with the agreed supply chain support, programming and delivery of all projects across the contract via supply chain partner and direct employees
  • Collaborating with the Finance Manager to ensure forecasts and budgets are managed with accuracy across the contract, making sure cost control procedures are followed to meet and exceed financial targets, delivering monthly contract reports to the contract board covering SHE, operational and financial performance, developing and pushing profit improvement plans to ensure productivity and performance is improved year on year
  • Having close contact with Shropshire Council and partners, fostering positive open style relationships, ensuring systems and processes are specific to the Shropshire Contract, and they are delivered and implemented such that targets are achieved or indeed exceeded
  • Applying revised processes and procedures to ensure compliance with the requirements of the contract quality management systems, guaranteeing policies of the company and clients are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met
Who are we looking for?

This role of Delivery Manager is great for you if you can:
  • Demonstrate experience in construction and highways works at a managerial level
  • Show a valid driving licence, TWS training and SSMTS
  • Understand fleet management
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
  • New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 7 April 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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