Head of Business Stream, Construction at 360 Degree Habitat Limited

Department: Civil Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• To contribute to the profitability of the business through the leadership of the construction business stream.
• To be responsible for managing the Construction Business Stream within the Civil Engineering Division; reporting to the Director of Civil Engineering.
• To manage a team of senior contract managers, contract managers and supervisors to deliver construction works
• To support clients in the pre-construction phase, reviewing tender information and workloads, supporting the allocation of resources and carrying out site visits where required.
• To work closely with the senior management team and the Senior Commercial Manager to deliver month financial reports including budgets, forecasts, profit and loss, and MLO (most likely out turn).
• To support the estimating team with the bid management for tenders
• To provide visible leadership and emphasis to the Health and Safety of sites.
• To ensure the programming of resources is optimized to deliver projects to the desired level of safety, quality and profitability.
• To review job costs and values to ensure the maximum levels of profitability.
• To ensure smooth running of sites through regular liaison with the team, the client and our supply chain.
• To work in conjunction with the Marketing and Commercial departments to ensure aligned business development and opportunity success/failure reporting.
• To chair regular team progress meetings internally and externally with clients.
• To monitor works to ensure the accurate submission of monthly applications, invoices and final account settlement.
• To ensure that all works are completed to both a timely and a satisfactory standard, including liaising with the client.
• To ensure the timely collation of information for Health and Safety
• To ensure that project handover and reviews are undertaken on all projects and contracts.
• To act in accordance with company policies and procedures, particularly with reference to our Equality and Diversity policies, procedures and practices.
• To behave in a manner that supports the company's stated Vision and Values and ensure other team members do like-wise.
• To uphold the company’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies, procedures and practices.
• To undertake other duties and ad hoc projects as required.

Key Skills/Requirements

• Minimum of HND/B.Sc in Engineering or any relevant Construction related discipline
• Membership of an appropriate professional organization a plus
• Prior experience of contracts management
• Previous experience of working on heavy civil engineering projects and demonstrable market knowledge
• Previous role(s) in a commercially focused organization an advantage
• Technically competent in industry disciplines
• Interpersonal Skills Excellent verbal and written communications skills at all levels
• High business ethics - honesty, culturally unbiased
• Team Orientation, Individual thinker capable of actively contributing to the delivery of team performance
• Ability to operate in and manage a large team in a collaborative manner to ensure other parties are fully engaged
• Commercial Understanding , Strong customer focus and excellent customer service skills
• Strong commercially awareness
• Computer literate
• Personal Effectiveness, Demonstrable ability to work in a busy environment
• Experience of working under pressure
• Strong concern for order and quality ,robust attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills,with the ability to prioritise and Self motivated