Senior Project Construction Manager

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Senior Project Construction Manager - responsible for leading the project from concept through to completion, embedding a right‑to‑left delivery approach, and coordinating across engineering, procurement, and construction teams. The role begins in Woking for the first 12–18 months and relocates to Saudi Arabia around month 19 to oversee the construction phase of a 50‑month brownfield development.

• Strong leadership capability in managing large‑scale EPC greenfield and brownfield projects
• Extensive experience in construction management within live operating environments
• Deep understanding of construction, completions, commissioning, and operability integration
• Ability to apply a right‑to‑left delivery approach (backward planning from handover to design)
• Strong knowledge of engineering, procurement, and project controls alignment
• Expertise in Saudi Aramco standards, procedures, and specifications, including Construction Safety Manual and CSI scoring requirements
• Strategic planning and execution oversight capability across full project lifecycle
• Strong stakeholder management and interface coordination skills
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary construction teams and oversee contractor performance
• Experience with shutdown planning, execution, and brownfield modifications
• Strong focus on safety, quality, cost, and schedule delivery
• Lead mobilisation of the construction organisation, including recruitment and deployment of key project leads
• Hold overall accountability for safe and predictable construction delivery in line with HSSE, schedule, cost, and quality objectives
• Champion a zero accident culture and ensure HSE in design, SIMOPS planning and control, and full compliance with Saudi Aramco standards
• Build and maintain strong senior level relationships with client PMT and operations
• Act as the primary construction authority within the project, advising key stakeholders on sequencing, constructability, and site execution constraints
• Lead development and implementation of the Construction Execution Strategy, Path of Construction and AWP program
• Maintain accountability for delivery across all execution phases, including shutdown planning, outage coordination, SIMOPS management, pre‑commissioning, and handover readiness
• Oversee contractor and subcontractor performance across multiple work fronts in a complex operating facility
• Identify and resolve construction constraints, schedule conflicts, brownfield interfaces, and SIMOPS challenges, escalating key issues to the Project Director
• Accountable for construction cost performance, including productivity, earned value and change control, and support commercial evaluation of variations and claims
• Ensure construction methodologies, procedures and plans are compliant with project requirements and Saudi Aramco standards
• Implement and consistently apply construction governance systems (permit to work, SIMOPS, AWP, quality control, document control and materials management)
• Plan and manage the full construction lifecycle from early setup through mobilisation, execution and demobilisation, aligned with manpower plans and workface requirements
• Maintain close alignment with the Project Director and functional leads to ensure an integrated delivery approach
• Lead construction input into commissioning, completions and handover, ensuring systems are delivered in line with turnaround and operational readiness requirements
• Report regularly on construction performance, including HSSE, schedule, resources and commercial status, providing structured input to client and internal reviews
• Act in alignment with Project Director authority, escalating decisions where required in a timely and structured manner
• Maintain current knowledge of Saudi Aramco standards, regulatory requirements and EPC construction best practice, including developments in AWP and execution methodologies
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours aligned with company…