Senior Section Manager

April 26, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Section Manager

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

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, with technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction at its core.

What is the role and project?

  • To provide the construction management for a work package/section within the project, sub-project, or site.

  • Construction is underway on the expansion of the iconic redevelopment of London Olympia. The Olympia redevelopment project will create a new cultural hub in West London with a four-screen arthouse cinema, restaurants, shops, cafés and 550,000 sq. ft of office and co-working space.

What are the key responsibilities?

  • You will contribute to the achievement of Laing O' Rourke safety targets and zero tolerance of unsafe working practices and occurrences
  • To deliver the section packages to the client within budget, quality, and time parameters
  • To work with the planning team to develop detailed short-term programmes of work
  • To manage the budget and delivery of the section of the project
  • To plan the programming of day-to-day resource requirements and communicate these to the team

What are the desired skills?

  • Detailed knowledge of Health and Safety legislation
  • Experience in both project delivery and handover
  • Thorough understanding of project flow and demand fulfillment
  • The ability to work with initiative when outside influences affect planned operations

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 the interview what adjustments are required and discuss how we can support you in the workplace.