Pre Construction Manager

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Location:
Nottinghamshire or Warrington

Join Galliford Try’s Environment Business as a Pre-Construction Manager and play a key role in shaping and delivering vital infrastructure projects across the water and environmental sector. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the front end of project delivery, ensuring we meet or exceed time, cost, and quality targets.

What you will be doing:

As a Pre-Construction Manager, you will lead and coordinate all pre-construction activities, ensuring seamless collaboration between internal teams and external partners. Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the interface across pre-construction, design, procurement, commercial, and delivery teams.
• Driving collaboration across stakeholders including designers, clients, planners, and supply chain to develop efficient Civil and MEICA delivery plans.
• Supporting the bid phase with operational input such as programme planning, constructability reviews, and delivery strategies.
• Facilitating smooth handovers from the Pre-Construction team to Delivery teams post-contract award.
• Leading the detailed design and procurement phases, ensuring alignment with client expectations and internal validation processes.
• Ensuring high-quality design deliverables are produced on time through proactive planning and coordination.
• Organising and overseeing pre-construction site activities including surveys, trial holes, and inspections.
• Implementing effective change control systems to manage project scope, risks, and impacts.
• Developing procurement strategies to maximise value through early engagement and market testing.
• Contributing to supplier selection and challenging constraints where necessary to protect project delivery.
• Creating robust delivery and procurement schedules, with an eye on buildability and temporary works.
• Acting as the key technical interface with the client and supply chain.
• Ensuring early and continuous engagement with commissioning and asset integration teams.
• Reporting to the Risk Manager on all aspects of Civil and MEICA delivery.
• Promoting a client-focused, safe, and quality-driven culture throughout the pre-construction phase.
• Capturing and embedding best practices and continuous improvement into every project.

About You:

You’ll bring a proactive, can-do attitude to project delivery with strong leadership and technical skills. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can lead complex, multidisciplinary projects through to success.

Key Skills & Experience:

Strong background in construction or engineering, ideally within the Water/Wastewater or Environmental sectors.

Proven experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams and project interfaces.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organisational skills.

Commercially astute with good contract awareness.

Confident working to strict deadlines with the ability to manage supply chains effectively.

Able to challenge the status quo, drive efficiencies, and add value throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• HND/HNC in a relevant Engineering discipline (BEng/MEng preferred).
• Professional qualification (desirable).
• IOSH Working Safely (or equivalent).
• Strong proficiency in relevant IT and software tools.

What We Can Offer in Return:

With an impressive order book of over £3.8 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

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