Construction contractors are great managers who enjoy guiding construction projects to completion and actively engaging with customers. They are passionate about building and juggling many tasks at a time and can oversee the design and building of a range of structures. Alongside the engineers who design structures, construction contractors are essential to ensuring that infrastructure around the world gets built on time, meets customers’ demands, and is done safely.

Construction contractor responsibilities span project management, team management and construction. They oversee every part of a building construction project, from start to finish. Construction contractors must plan all the important development and implementation details and plan out construction equipment and materials to be used.

They are also responsible for various construction management processes, including the procurement of supplies and equipment, coordination of subcontractors to carry out specialized tasks like electricity or heating and ventilation. In addition, they must ensure funds are available to keep the project moving and prepare regular progress reports. The contractor must also manage the teams in terms of size and technical expertise, as well as payroll for their own employees and subcontractor payments.

Construction contractors must be quick thinkers, able to anticipate and plan for possible changes and having a risk management strategy in place to deal with it. They must also ensure that the plans, workers and local laws or codes all adhere to the scope of the building project. At the end of the building project, construction contractors are responsible for reviewing it all and making sure everything is correct. Construction contractors often work closely with construction engineers, civil engineers, and other specialists, to guide the building work as specified.

Construction contractor jobs are frequently available in the construction industry where building on any scale happens. They can help build homes, offices, bridges, skyscrapers, and other large buildings like tunnels, power plants, dams, and beyond. There is never a dull moment on a construction site, making this career of contracting perfect for those who like to juggle many challenges and deadlines.

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Senior Construction Manager (m/w/d)

Location: Karlsruhe

Branche: Renewable Energy

Expertise: Production & Manufacturing

Experience: 2 years

Steuerung und Überwachung von Bauprojekten im Bereich Straßenbau, Kanalbau und sonstiger Infrastrukturmaßnahmen Erstellung von Projektplänen, Zeitplänen und Budgetvorgaben Vorbereitung und Einreichung von Genehmigungsunterlagen bei Behörden Kommunikation und Verhandlungen mit Behörden und öffentlichen Einrichtungen zur Sicherstellung aller erforderlichen Genehmigungen Einhaltung rechtlicher Vorgaben und baurechtlicher Bestimmungen Auswahl, Beauftragung und Steuerung von externen Dienstleistern und Subunternehmen Überwachung der Leistungen hinsichtlich Qualität, Terminen und Kosten Sicherstellung der Einhaltung von Arbeitssicherheits- und Umweltstandards Regelmäßige Kontrolle des Projektfortschritts und Erstellung von Statusberichten für interne und externe Stakeholder Identifikation und Management von Risiken sowie Erarbeitung von Lösungsvorschlägen bei Problemen Enge Zusammenarbeit mit internen Fachabteilungen wie Planung, Einkauf und Qualitätsmanagement sowie Abstimmung mit Architekten, Ingenieuren und Bauleitern

Construction Manager Verfahrenstechnik (w/m/d)

Location: Wuppertal

Branche: Life Sciences

Expertise: Production & Manufacturing

Experience: 1 years

Zu Ihren Aufgaben gehört die Sicherstellung, dass alle Apparate und Maschinen im Anlagenbereich sicher, gesetzes- und vorschriftenkonform sowie kostenoptimal betriebsfähig der chemischen Produktion bereitgestellt werden können Darüber hinaus erarbeiten Sie nachhaltige Reparaturkonzepte, inklusive Kosten- und Terminplanungen Auch die Durchführung von Schadensanalysen und die Entwicklung von Konzepten zur Optimierung der Anlagenverfügbarkeit fällt in Ihren Aufgabenbereich. Sie werden nach Einarbeitung größere sowie komplexere Neubau- und Instandhaltungs-Projekte im Anlagenbereich koordinieren

Construction Supervisor Verfahrenstechnik (m/w/d)

Location: Mannheim

Branche: Pharmaceuticals

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 2 years

In Ihrer Funktion als Fachbauleiter mit dem Schwerpunkt verfahrenstechnische Anlagen sind Sie für die termin- und qualitätsgerechte Abwicklung von Montageaufträgen im Rohrleitungsbau und der Apparatemontage verantwortlich. Sie nehmen an Modellbesprechungen teil und sind mit der fachlichen Führung und der Kontrolle der Kontraktoren betraut. In diesem Zuge arbeiten Sie die in Ihrem Bereich nötigen Montagekonzepte unter Berücksichtigung von Projektbeteiligten inkl. Lieferanten aus. Im Rahmen der Montagephase sind Sie für die Einteilung des ausführenden Montagepersonals verantwortlich und beachten dabei die vorgegebenen Sicherheitsbedingungen vor Ort.

Construction Manager

Location: El Paso

Branche: Mining

Expertise: Production & Manufacturing

Experience: 4 years

We have a current opportunity for a Construction Manager on a contract basis. The position will be based in Phoenix. For further information about this position please apply.

Construction Superintendent Mechanical

Location: Doha

Branche: Conventional Energy

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 5 years

Demonstrates visible safety leadership and care for people. Act as the Company focal point for HVAC Systems installation scope including review and/or approval of related technical and non-technical documents submitted by Contractor.Ensures all activities are undertaken in compliance with Company and contractually defined policies, regulations, and standards.Apply contractual awareness protecting the Company position when engaging with Contractors on schedule, technical and cost issues.Establish and maintain relationships, communications with contractor and company functional teams (safety, quality, engineering, business).Coordination of all CPY support functions (safety, Quality) ensuring safe and efficient delivery in line with the construction schedule Ensuring contractors ongoing competency processes and procedures are compliant to Company requirements and Qatar government regulations.Review Contractors Mechanical safety critical position CVs and interview as required providing technical input to approval processReview and recommend improvements to ways of working, procedures and plans ensuring effective and smooth project execution.Participate in constructability and construction readiness reviews identifying improvement opportunities with contractor team.Understand the Advanced Work Pack process, confirming alignment with path of construction review progress identifying constraints and mitigations. Monitor and provide guidance to Contractor to ensure key Mechanical deliverables (HVAC Systems), progress/milestones are achieved. Attend activity planning and risk assessment meetings, assist contractor in identifying schedule mitigations and improvement. Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming safety standards are maintained, Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming efficiency of the work and compliance with the planned daily activities and overall construction schedule.Review, approve and audit as required Contractor plans, procedures, method statement PTW and task instructions. Attends onsite safety meetings and toolbox talks to ensure there is a clear understanding of the activities that are to be performed.Review of contractors daily weekly and monthly reports analyzing performance and verifying progress and status. Develops and issues CPY daily and weekly reports as directed by Line Manager

Construction Superintendent Mechanical- HVAC

Location: Doha

Branche: Conventional Energy

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 5 years

Demonstrates visible safety leadership and care for people. Act as the Company focal point for HVAC Systems installation scope including review and/or approval of related technical and non-technical documents submitted by Contractor.Ensures all activities are undertaken in compliance with Company and contractually defined policies, regulations, and standards.Apply contractual awareness protecting the Company position when engaging with Contractors on schedule, technical and cost issues.Establish and maintain relationships, communications with contractor and company functional teams (safety, quality, engineering, business).Coordination of all CPY support functions (safety, Quality) ensuring safe and efficient delivery in line with the construction schedule Ensuring contractors ongoing competency processes and procedures are compliant to Company requirements and Qatar government regulations.Review Contractors Mechanical safety critical position CVs and interview as required providing technical input to approval processReview and recommend improvements to ways of working, procedures and plans ensuring effective and smooth project execution.Participate in constructability and construction readiness reviews identifying improvement opportunities with contractor team.Understand the Advanced Work Pack process, confirming alignment with path of construction review progress identifying constraints and mitigations. Monitor and provide guidance to Contractor to ensure key Mechanical deliverables (HVAC Systems), progress/milestones are achieved. Attend activity planning and risk assessment meetings, assist contractor in identifying schedule mitigations and improvement. Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming safety standards are maintained, Undertakes daily walk-through of construction areas, confirming efficiency of the work and compliance with the planned daily activities and overall construction schedule.Review, approve and audit as required Contractor plans, procedures, method statement PTW and task instructions. Attends onsite safety meetings and toolbox talks to ensure there is a clear understanding of the activities that are to be performed.Review of contractors daily weekly and monthly reports analyzing performance and verifying progress and status.

Construction Electrical Engineer / Senior Engineer

Location: Doha

Branche: Conventional Energy

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 5 years

Supervising and coordinating the construction and pre-commissioning phase of major and minor projects executed by annual and contractors.Supervises Contractors work to ensure implementation of specified scope of work with less cost, high quality, meets the standards and procedures.Review modification approval drawings/documents, confirming it with circuit control, single line diagram etc. and site verification for the construction deficiency and approve.Liaises with concerned Department for timely availability of materials.Prepare requisition to issue warehouse materials; also procure materials from local suppliers for shortage materials.Arrange different type of work permit; explain the hazard to the contractor depend upon the type of work, prepare Job safety analysis, and Method statement for the electrical activities and confirm the works are done in a safer manner and follow standards and procedures.Prepare inspection and test plans and conduct all types of field and shop testsPropose field design changes during the construction phase and get approval from engineering section.Prepare the punch points and confirm the works done as per the engineering study.Liaises with Production Department and other disciplines to facilitate pre-commissioning and commissioning of the project and hand over to production.After completion of the work, prepare as built documents and issue the close out report.Monitoring the project detail planning, status monitoring and progress follow up of all projects phases and keeps the Construction Engineer informed, avoiding project overruns or increased requirements for manpower, material, or any other requirements likely to cause increased costs or project commissioning delays.Attends meetings with different departments and sections to ensure timely communication of issues and minimize interface disconnect.Conduct meeting as required, either internally or externally with contractor during execution of the project.Checking and certifying contractor’s invoices as per the contract terms and conditions.Performs other similar or related duties such as providing any required information to immediate associates, undertaking of associated administrative tasks and observing fire and safety regulations. Enforce safety rules and maintain the quality in all the works carried out at the plant

Construction Manager

Location: Bagdad

Branche: Mining

Expertise: Production & Manufacturing

Experience: 5 years

Responsible for day-to-day support of the Owner's team construction management including execution planning, phasing, scheduling, constructability reviews, and continuing throughout the execution and commissioning phases of the project. Emphasis to be on integration with site operations, jobsite health and safety, environmental protection and labor relations of major refining and metallurgical process facilities projects. The scope of this position includes all aspects of project construction management from planning stages through field execution and commissioning activities, with hand-off to the site operations team for beneficial operation. Reports to the Project Manager.

Senior Subsea Construction Engineer

Location: .

Branche: Conventional Energy

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 5 years

This job/ position requires contribution into key aspects Repair of Subsea Pipelines and sleepers project.Senior Construction Engineer has a significant impact on COMPANY subsea pipelines safe and reliable operation to ensure continued offshore gas availability with no outages due to installation and integrity aspects.Experienced and self-motivated Senior Construction Engineer with extensive knowledge in Construction, installation and repair methods of Subsea pipelines for brownfield Oil & Gas / offshore / Subsea / facilities.Senior Construction Engineer shall have the construction capabilities to manage the construction phase and provide support to other disciplines / company assets.Provide inputs to engineering for Detailed Engineering studies.Propose various solutions related to pipeline engineering and review technical/construction documents to ensure compliance with drawings, design and company specifications and standards.Senior Construction Engineer have good knowledge of various Subsea pipeline repair works.This Senior Construction Engineer (Subsea/Marine), Scope includesEnsure compliance with COMPANY systems and processes including the Project Management System (PMS) and maintains support and adoption of all processes.Prepare plans and work schedules that ensure effective completion of projects.Assist PMT in meeting PMS expectations requirements in terms of Construction.Support Constructability Reviews, Brownfield Planning & Verification Checklist & Site Verification Exercise.Review construction work plans, pre-task planning and method statements to ensure comprehensive safety and feasibility for the Subsea pipeline repair Project.Provide company representation in monitoring contractor’s construction-related activities.Reports activities, progress and areas of concern to Project Manager.Participates in appropriate weekly staff meetings.Monitor, manage and influence the activities of contractors performing construction work to ensure compliance with project objectives and contractual requirements.Ensure construction plans are developed in accordance with COMPANY, RLII, RLIII & AKG rules, regulations, and standards and permit to work procedures as applicable.Report and record potential change order requests to assist in claims avoidance.Apply quality management approach to ensure projects are executed in conformance with the established technical requirements and comply with QA/QC expectation.Manage fabrication-shop activities and methodologies.Apply and capture Brownfield project execution lessons learned & best practices. Prepare and follow up approvals of Construction Interface Agreements and eMOCs.Monitor construction and execution phase, confirm mechanical completion activities MAC, safety, and readiness to commence Commissioning PSSR, Start-up and Hand Over.Develop and implement plans to ensure that the handover of facilities takes place in a timely and effective manner to support safe and productive operations.Review and manage criteria for the fabrication and field erection sequences with respect to construction safety in general and SIMOPS in particular.Assess, implement and evaluate contractors construction techniques and adequacy of Contractors SHE or Safety Plan and Project Quality Plan.Manage offshore Shutdown and Non-Shutdown-based construction. Manage plant Shutdown and Non-Shutdown-based construction.Lead the preparation, understand and challenge the schedule estimate basis and assumptions. Define the activity breakdown level appropriate to the project phase and location (Shutdown and offshore).Analyze schedule and identify critical path.Analyze schedule and identify & develop mitigation or special schedule allowance or reserve against risks, uncertainties or constraints (heat index, offshore bad weather, site access etc.).Coordinate to benchmark against historical data & industry norms.Review FEED and EPC construction deliverables and studies to support the development and/or understanding of subsea pipelines Project.Ensure full compliance to construction and system completion procedures.Determine Shutdown requirements for repair scopesEnsure the Shutdown durations are minimized by providing innovative solutions in pipeline repair executions.Review and approval of permitsInvolve in incident investigations. Analyze and draw conclusions from incident, near miss information, KEI, RA, and RCFAs etc. Performs Management of Change reviewsParticipate in design and SHE reviews (DRA, HAZOPs, HAZIDs, risk assessments) and verify related risk and reliability, Construction/installation issues are closed out.

Construction Supervisor (Civil) (Ethylene Storage Project)

Location: Doha

Branche: Conventional Energy

Expertise: Planning & Testing

Experience: 5 years

Daily Supervision of Civil Works: Oversee and direct all civil construction activities on-site, including excavation, foundations, concrete work, and structural elements related to the ethylene storage facility.Ensure Compliance: Ensure that all construction activities are carried out in accordance with design specifications, technical drawings, and relevant codes and standards.Quality Control: Conduct inspections of ongoing work to ensure quality standards are met, addressing any issues promptly to avoid delays.HSE Compliance: Implement and maintain safety procedures on-site, ensuring strict compliance with HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental) regulations. Proactively address safety concerns to minimize risks.Coordination with Contractors: Liaise with contractors and subcontractors to ensure their work is aligned with the project schedule and quality requirements. Address any discrepancies and provide guidance when needed.Work Progress Monitoring: Track daily work progress and provide regular updates to the site manager and project management team. Ensure that deadlines are met and identify any potential delays early on.Material Management: Ensure the correct use and timely availability of construction materials, coordinating with procurement teams for material delivery and storage.Problem Solving: Resolve any on-site issues that may arise during construction, including technical or logistical challenges, in collaboration with engineers and other relevant parties.Reporting: Prepare daily and weekly progress reports, including updates on work performed, manpower, and any safety or quality concerns.Team Leadership: Provide direction and supervision to site workers, ensuring efficient and productive work. Foster a positive and safe working environment.Reporting: Provide daily/weekly/monthly updates on progress and areas of concerns to PMT. Timely and accurate reporting to PMT is essential.

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Common construction contractor responsibilities

A construction contractor is responsible for performing a range of construction management tasks. Responsibilities may include:

  • Managing and guiding construction project planning and design;

  • Managing the building durable structures according to specifications and plans;

  • Planning and procuring appropriate materials for construction based on specifications;

  • Identifying and resolving any issues arising during building;

  • Managing an effective construction schedule with timing and milestones;

  • Preparing progress reports and appraisal reports;

  • Collaborating with customers, engineers, specialists, and construction workers to build the desired structures;

  • Hiring subcontractors to carry out specific tasks, such as electricity or plumbing installation;

  • Tracking progress and reporting on same;

  • Delivering results in line with agreed construction project timelines and budgets;

  • Delivering construction outputs in compliance with relevant requirements, codes, and certifications, and in line with customer needs and demands;

  • Assuring the safety and security of team members;

  • Engaging regularly with the customers;

  • Traveling to construction sites to observe and manage construction.

Qualifications for construction contractors 

Construction contractors should have at least a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a similar engineering discipline. In some countries, a construction contractor license may also be required.

Additional supporting skills and experience include:

  • 2-5+ years of construction contracting experience;

  • Some experience in areas like carpentry, tiling, plumbing, electricity is needed;

  • Solid understanding of construction materials and methods;

  • Excellent analytical skills;

  • Proven experience in project and team management;

  • Experience with diverse computer software;

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to be able to work easily with customers, engineers, technicians, and other team members.

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