Senior Construction Manager will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale construction projects, ensuring safe, high-quality, and commercially successful outcomes. The role is responsible for overseeing multidisciplinary project teams, managing key stakeholders, driving operational excellence, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. Experience delivering mission-critical facilities, including data centers, is highly desirable.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing complex building, industrial, mission-critical, data center, or infrastructure projects, with proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders throughout the construction lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Project Leadership
- Provide overall leadership and direction for major construction projects or multiple concurrent projects.
- Establish project execution strategies, construction delivery plans, and resource deployment models.
- Drive project performance across safety, quality, schedule, cost, and client satisfaction metrics.
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
Construction Management
- Lead and manage all on-site construction activities from mobilization through completion and handover
- Ensure works are executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, project schedules, and contract requirements
- Develop and implement construction execution plans, site logistics plans, and project delivery strategies
- Coordinate daily site operations and oversee contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers
- Monitor project progress and proactively address issues impacting safety, quality, cost, or schedule
Project Delivery
- Work closely with project managers, planners, commercial teams, consultants, and clients to achieve project objectives
- Manage project milestones and construction sequencing to ensure timely completion
- Review construction methodologies and identify opportunities for productivity improvements
- Support commissioning, testing, and handover activities to ensure smooth project closeout
- Drive recovery plans where required to mitigate project delays
Health, Safety & Environment
- Champion a strong safety culture across all project teams
- Ensure compliance with Singapore Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) regulations and company HSE standards
- Conduct regular site inspections, safety reviews, and risk assessments
- Investigate incidents and implement corrective actions when necessary
- Ensure all contractors maintain safe work practices and regulatory compliance
Quality Management
- Ensure construction works meet project specifications, quality standards, and client requirements
- Coordinate inspections, testing, and quality assurance processes
- Manage defect identification, rectification, and project closeout activities
- Promote continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project quality and efficiency
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary site representative for construction-related matters
- Coordinate with clients, consultants, authorities, contractors, and internal project teams
- Lead construction meetings, progress reviews, and site coordination sessions
- Provide regular project updates and reports to senior management and project stakeholders
Commercial & Contract Support
- Support project cost control and budget management activities
- Review construction progress against contractual obligations
- Assist in evaluating variations, claims, and change management processes
- Monitor resource utilization and productivity performance across the project
Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop site management teams, including site managers, engineers, supervisors, and inspectors
- Foster collaboration and accountability across project teams
- Drive performance and ensure adherence to project objectives and company values
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Building, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15+ years of construction management experience within the building, industrial, infrastructure, mission-critical, or data center sectors.
- Proven track record managing large-scale projects valued at SGD 100 million and above.
- Extensive experience delivering complex projects from pre-construction, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary construction teams across multiple project packages or concurrent projects.
- Strong understanding of construction methodologies, contract administration, risk management, and project controls.
- Previous experience with main contractors, EPC contractors, project management consultancies, or developers is highly preferred.
- Data center, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other mission-critical project experience is highly advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of Singapore Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) regulations, quality standards, and statutory requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to engage clients, consultants, contractors, and senior management.
- Proven experience driving project recovery strategies, productivity improvements, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Ability to mentor and develop construction managers, site managers, engineers, and other project team members.