Assistant Construction Manager

This contract with our rail client is for a Assistant Construction Manager for 6 months in Exeter (he work split is a follows - 40% admin and 60% on site.)  

The pay rate for the role is Pay Rate to Candidate: £207 Umbrella / £152.04 PAYE.  

IR35: Inside  

This role will require PTS and COSS.  

Ideally looking for someone from a rail background  

Please note the location of work is Exeter and therefore our client is interested in applicants that are based around this area or that can commute to varying office location in Exeter, and also sites along this route as the role is completely line side. The work split is a follows - 40% admin and 60% on site.  

Security Clearance: BPSS  

Top 3 Criteria  

Construction Risk and Risk Management and Assessment knowledge  

Construction background knowledge and supervised  

and understand H&S  

Project Management Experience  

Expected to provide estimate and outputs from site visits and include engineers time.  

The ability to translate the works down in plain language.  

A lot of the work is looking at adjacent construction work to Network Rail sites, i.e large constructions at multi level i.e 10 storey buildings. If someone is using scaffolding, and excavations they would need to know.  

They will be visiting sites to make sure the controls are in place as per the method of working and scope of information.  

Experienced in the ALO process, using the machine close to boundaries.  

Working alongside an asset engineer who is based in Cornwall covering from Barnstable to Exeter.  

Most of the time they will be getting enquiries and making contact with the customer.  

They will do a desktop exercise to begin with. They have patches of enquires going that are going to different places and will need to determine where they need to go so for example;  

South of Exeter going South up to Barnstaple. If needed to go North so be it.  

Risk background knowledge and understanding, and highlighting them to the customer. Its not the work that might cause the risk more so the traffic management system.  

They do over bridge works as well, and work with a lot of the utilities companies.  

Period of training for a month. They have to shadow other people on site.  

They would have to arrange transport and overnight stays  

They are not responsible for the design or the delivery. They are there to review their information from method statements.