Business Stream Director- Ground Engineering

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

• Lead and manage the overall operations of Ground Engineering projects with Cementation Skanska, across UK and beyond.
• Actively lead the securing and delivery of projects, managing wide and diverse project teams.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership to operations, preconstruction, design and commercial teams in identifying and winning work.
• Coordinate and build collaborative relationships with project stakeholders, including clients, engineers, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Drive cross‑unit business development and improvement within Cementation Skanska while expanding opportunities with our partners.
• Deliver multiple schemes efficiently while leading the digitisation of operations and development of our works management system.
• Drive the highest safety, wellbeing and environmental standards and continuously seek improvements.

• Thorough knowledge of ground engineering techniques, construction methodologies, and relevant industry standards.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and managing complex and high value ground engineering projects within budget and to programme.
• Experience of delivering complimentary civil engineering works either by self-delivery or by sub-contracting and using software and tools.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills to effectively manage teams and collaborate with stakeholders.
• An understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards / regulations in delivering our works.

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high‑performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using  or call  – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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