Senior Digital Construction Manager

February 3, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Digital Construction Manager

We're looking for a Senior Digital Construction Manager to join our Kier Construction team in London and the South. Within this role, you can enjoy exposure to large scale projects, progression opportunities, support in obtaining further qualifications and even more.

Location: London and South England

Contract: Full time, permanent (Monday to Friday)

Responsibilities

As a Senior Digital Construction Manager, you'll be responsible for implementation of our digital by default approach including the BIM process and business unit digital maturity, reporting on the progress and highlighting any risk to senior managers to ensure support is given to achieve accelerated adoption of digital construction techniques.

Your day to day will include:

  • Responsible for ensuring that the BIM Execution Plan and other documents/resources have been produced and maintained for projects across the business unit.
  • Responsible for ensuring the use of the common data environment process to manage and exchanging information, adhering to the methodology of ISO 19650-1 & 2 across projects across the business unit.
  • Supporting and auditing the delivery team with fulfilling standards, methods and procedures using specified software/workflows and highlighting any continued non-compliance with the Head of Digital Construction.
  • Responsible for producing monthly reports to identify and measure BIM implementation within the business unit and across projects. Inform and share reports with Head of Digital Construction, business unit to enable overall Construction performance to be monitored.
  • Responsible for driving the implementation of digital information plans/strategies and provide feedback to Head of Digital Construction, business unit to ensure progress is being made and commitment to such documentation is being observed
Who are we looking for?

This role of Senior Digital Construction Manager is great for you if you have:

  • A strong communicator and a proven ability to build positive working relationships, internally and externally across all levels of management
  • Strong leadership skills with a strategic interest
  • Confident and assertive to enable challenges to be overcome and risks escalated.
  • Experience of implementing the 1192 suite of documents and detailed knowledge of the ISO 19650 series including UK National Annex
  • Knowledge of openBIM standards such as IFC and COBie to support information interoperability
  • Ability to coordinate and manage own and others workload and prioritise accordingly to supporting project delivery
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
  • 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday)
  • Two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan)
  • A free healthcare app giving you access to clinicians and experts on fertility, pregnancy and baby, menopause and men's health
  • An additional two days' leave to take part in volunteering activities of your choice
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.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: https://www.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: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 3 March 2023

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