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Have you got construction experience on new build & refurbishment projects?
Are you comfortable working with professional consultants and suppliers?
Do you want to work for the biggest landlord in central Government?
If the answer is yes, then our Construction Assurance Manager within our Construction & Fit Out team at HMRC could be for you!
As our Construction Assurance Manager, we are looking for you to apply your construction related knowledge to activities across the estate which range from small works to major new build and refurbishment projects.
This client-side role provides the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of Estates project types, covering a variety of disciplines. You will apply your skills and knowledge of all construction related matters ranging from construction project scheduling, building contracts, CDM, & H&S, drawing on your prior experience in delivering projects to time cost and quality whilst working with professional consultants, FM suppliers and fit out contractor teams to ensure our standards are delivered.
The role is responsible for scope of works documents for construction related activities, including reviewing, and commenting on design, costs and delivery schedules and providing assurance across construction activities during preconstruction, delivery of projects and post completion.
See what its like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Job description
The construction assurance manager is responsible for:
- Providing assurance across all allocated construction activities being delivered utilising own skills and external delivery partners whilst monitoring and reviewing the overall progress to time, cost & quality
- Delivery of operational contract management post contract award through to completion on all contracts related to construction.
- Ensuring Compliance with the contract and HMRC internal governance.
- Resolving supplier contract issues and where appropriate escalate to Commercial Contract Management team to achieve resolution.
- Ensuring compliance with HMRC Soft Landing and Defects Management plans
- Providing a Scope of Works or Consultant Briefing documents to support Minor Capital and Lifecycle projects.
- Liaising with a wide range of stakeholders both internal and external consultants, contractors, and suppliers, including non-property professionals to ensure the construction element of the project is aligned with overall project objectives.
- Being the escalation point for suppliers and contractors to resolve delivery and installation issues.
- Interrogating monthly reports from external parties and ensure accurate, high-quality information and provide onward reporting to various project and programme boards
- Providing construction project expertise as part of a project team ensuring progress, costs, key risks, issues, H&S and products are effectively managed and communicated.
- Assembling and Assuring delivery of high-quality projects through adherence to Employers Requirements, design standards, BIM Plan, and delivery of defined products under the Quality Management System.
Person specification
The role holder should be able to showcase their broad expertise and experience throughout the entire construction project lifecycle in the built environment. This encompasses pre-construction, tendering, health, safety and wellbeing, CDM, risk management, task interdependencies, critical path, post-construction aftercare, and continuous improvement. Specifically, they should exhibit their aptitude for overseeing diverse external professional consultants across various disciplines, including operational, contractual, and commercial management, whilst utilising governance controls, efficient performance oversight, financial cost and time management, and service scoping of contracts.
Essential Criteria
Experience of operating in a construction project manager role, client or contractor side, through the whole property lifecycle on multi £m projects.
Demonstrate operational, contract and commercial management of a diverse range of property and construction professional consultants.
Conversant with all relevant construction Regulations and how they apply and are implemented particularly The Building Regulations and CDM.
An Undergraduate degree in a property related discipline along with relevant other experience and qualifications.
Role holders will require at least of one of the following professional bodies, MRICS, MCIOB, CIWFM.
If not already held, you must be willing to obtain full membership of one of the professional bodies identified within 24 Months.
This role will require successful application for security clearance to SC level.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Find more about HMRC benefits in ‘Your little extras and big benefits handbook’ for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete an anonymised CV and a 500-word Personal Statement.
Your CV should cover your job history and will be scored against the roles and responsibilities outlined in the advert.
Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria found in the Person Specification outlined in the advert.
We will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received an initial sift will be carried out against the CV.
At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
Interview
During the panel interview, your experience will be assessed and you will be asked behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what you are capable of. You will be asked strength-based questions to also explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant to the job role.
This is an example of a strengths-based question:
It is often said that the customer’s needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well.
We reserve the right to raise the score required at any stage of the process in order to manage numbers.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Interview dates to be confirmed.
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 6 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles if this applies to you, well let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Eligibility
To check that you are eligible to apply, review this eligibility information
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need, so please review the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the location preferences section that you are able to travel to.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition, or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a reasonable adjustment or a change to be made so that you can make your application, review this information on reasonable adjustments, and contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible.
Diversity and Inclusion
For more information on how we make this happen, review this information on our culture and values
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible after considering operational and customer service needs. We cant guarantee that we can meet all requests to work flexibly, as agreement will be subject to business ability to accommodate, and any request to work a more flexible arrangement should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
The Civil Service runs a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Locations
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
Security Update
For more information on the level of security checks we will carry out, review this information on security checks
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
Further Information
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application/s will be withdrawn from the process.
Duplicate applications for the same vacancy will also be withdrawn.
Transferring into HMRC from Civil Service If you are currently working for an Other Government Department (OGD) and would like to consider the impact on your pay when joining HMRC, please see the attached document “Combined T&C and OGD Pay English, found at the bottom of this advert. Further information on staff transfers can be found on gov.uk
Problems during the application process
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
If you think youve made a mistake on a short application form (e.g. youve ticked the incorrect eligibility box), please contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk at least two working days before the vacancy closes. After this, we wont be able to reopen your application.
Please use the subject line to insert appropriate wording e.g. Please re-open my application – 329354 & vacancy closing date 27/12/2023. Please note that we cannot amend or re-open your application if you have submitted your full application in the interests of fair and open recruitment.
For reasonable adjustments queries or requests, please see details within reasonable adjustments section above.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Simon Tantardini
- Email : simon.tantardini@hmrc.gov.uk
- Telephone : 07810 155738
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- Email : hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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