Section Manager

August 1, 2023 | Comments Off on Section Manager

Construction excellence is what we do best, through our ingenuity, expertise, and experienced teams of engineering and construction professionals.

Laing O'Rourke's 2025 Mission to become the recognised leader for innovation and excellence in the construction industry is driven by innovation and with technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction at its core.

Would you like to use your construction expertise to deliver some of the UK's most complex and innovative major projects?

This is a great opportunity to play a key role in our highly experienced project delivery team delivering the iconic redevelopment of London Olympia.

What do we look for?

  • Contribute to the achievement of Laing O'Rourke safety targets and zero tolerance of unsafe working practices and occurrences
  • To deliver sections packages of the project to the client within time, cost, quality, safety, and corporate responsibility parameters
  • To work with the planning team to develop detailed and accurate short-term programmes of work.
  • To implement, measure and report on our Environmental Management Plan.
  • To continually revise the site induction and give daily presentations.
  • To manage the budget and delivery of the section of the project
  • To plan the resource requirement and communicate these to the construction team
  • Contribute to the contract review process

What skills and experience are we looking for?

  • HSE management - responsibilities, systems, and processes, communicating and enthusing others
  • Project Delivery - scope, timescales, cost, and client needs
  • Project handover - driving standards, deadlines, problem-solving, and resource planning
  • The ideal candidate will have a good commercial awareness
  • Present good leadership skills
  • Possess excellent communication skills

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.