Construction Manager

Join our Strategic Capex team on a temporary basis as a Construction Manager at our Haverhill manufacturing site to play a key role in delivering our PSD4 Project.

The Construction Manager will lead and coordinate contractors, manage interfaces, resolve issues, and drive progress, allowing the Project Director to remain focused on strategic project leadership, stakeholder engagement, budget management, and overall project delivery.

This is a hands-on role requiring a strong site presence and the ability to lead multiple contractors within a live pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.

Your Responsibilities

You will:

Construction Execution

• Lead all day-to-day construction activities associated with the PSD4 project.

• Maintain a visible and proactive site presence.

• Coordinate contractors and subcontractors to ensure efficient execution of work.

• Manage construction interfaces across engineering, operations, quality, EHS, and commissioning teams.

• Resolve site issues quickly to minimise delays and disruption.

Safety Leadership

• Champion a strong safety culture and lead by example.

• Ensure all activities comply with site safety requirements, CDM regulations, permit-to-work systems, and contractor management procedures.

• Conduct routine site inspections and safety reviews.

• Drive immediate resolution of unsafe acts and conditions.

• Lead investigations into incidents and near misses where necessary.

Schedule Delivery

• Drive construction activities to achieve key project milestones.

• Monitor progress daily and implement recovery actions where required.

• Coordinate contractor resources to optimise productivity.

• Identify and escalate emerging schedule risks.

• Support commissioning readiness and turnover planning.

Contractor Management

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for all construction contractors.

• Hold contractors accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and schedule adherence.

• Chair contractor coordination meetings and progress reviews.

• Ensure appropriate supervision, manpower, and planning are maintained throughout the project.

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure construction activities are delivered in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, and GMP requirements.

• Support inspection and testing activities.

• Drive punch-list closure and construction completion.

• Ensure construction documentation is completed and handed over in accordance with project requirements.

Reporting & Communication

• Provide regular progress updates to the Head of Strategic Capex.

• Identify and communicate risks, opportunities, and key decisions required.

• Maintain clear communication between contractors and internal stakeholders.

• Support project reporting and milestone tracking.

Our Requirements

Essential

• Significant construction management experience on major capital projects.

• Proven experience managing multiple contractors and complex construction activities.

• Strong working knowledge of construction health and safety requirements.

• Experience delivering projects within regulated industrial environments.

• Ability to influence and direct contractors while maintaining positive working relationships.

Desirable

• Experience within pharmaceutical, biotech, life science, chemical, or highly regulated manufacturing sectors.

• Familiarity with GMP environments.

• Knowledge of commissioning and qualification processes.

Key Attributes

· Strong site leader who enjoys being present where the work is happening.

· Highly organised with a bias for action.

· Comfortable making decisions and holding contractors accountable.

· Excellent communicator who can engage effectively with both tradespeople and senior stakeholders.

· Pragmatic problem solver focused on safe and efficient project delivery.

Your Benefits

· Attractive Salary

· Training & Development

· Open and friendly working environment

Culture & Values

We bring our culture to life in the way we work every day. Our culture enables career development and talent management, we recognise that how we do things is as important as what we do, and our values set out how we achieve our goals and help us "do it right".

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to nurturing a culture of diversity and inclusion that contributes to improving innovation, performance, and engagement. We value transparency, mutual respect, and equal treatment of people. For this reason, we are firm in protecting our employees against any forms of discrimination.

We are Disability Confident - Committed which means we make reasonable adjustments to our process and offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. If you would like any assistance or require the application to be completed in a different format, please call or contact our Haverhill site reception.

Environment, Social and Governance

We strongly believe that the success of our company lies in its capacity to adapt to tomorrow’s challenges. Our responsibility as a company is to provide sustainability and resilience to the pharmaceutical value chain.

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Apply Today!

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