Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 66 days ago

Operations Director (Construction Projects)

Workable (global search)108,016 open roles

Where
Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowOperations Director (Construction Projects)Workable (global search) · Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Workable (global search)'s own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

7.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Workable (global search) postings stay open a median of 7 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.6%1 day
  2. 3.6%3 days
  3. 7.9%7 days
  4. 14.9%14 days
  5. 34.0%30 days
This job: posted 66 days ago

Workable (global search) median: 7 days open

The posting

Our client is a profitable, owner-managed contractor delivering interior fit-out and modular new-build projects, principally for the private education sector. Under a new CEO, the business is building the leadership team and operating disciplines required to scale materially over the next five years, including delivery of large modular new-build schemes alongside a growing fit-out portfolio internationally.

They are now seeking an Operations Director to help make growth successful both in the UK and overseas. You will be based in their offices in Hemel Hempstead, with regular UK travel.

The Operations Director owns delivery across the whole portfolio, from pre-construction through to handover and final account. The role carries full accountability for cost, programme, quality, safety and, critically, for the margin the business actually realises versus the margin it tenders.

This is not a site-management role scaled up. It is a commercially literate leadership role. The successful candidate will be as comfortable interrogating a cost value reconciliation as they are ensuring efficient site operations, and will be capable of holding both the supply chain and the internal team to account on all Operational related matters.

Delivery and programme

  • Portfolio ownership — accountable for the safe, on-time, on-budget delivery of every live project.
  • Programme control — own the master portfolio delivery programme; ensure realistic, resourced and sequenced individual project plans, with early identification of slippage and clear recovery actions.
  • Seasonal planning — plan supply chain, resource, labour and materials around the summer delivery peak
  • Pre-construction — input into buildability, method, programme and risk at bid stage; ensure what is sold can be built at the price it was sold for.

Commercial and financial

  • Margin protection — own tendered and realised gross margin. Drive a rigorous monthly CVR process; understand and explain every movement between tendered and forecast margin.
  • Cost control — robust control of subcontractor packages, procurement, variations, and preliminaries.
  • Change and claims — ensure client and subcontractor variations are captured, priced, agreed and billed.
  • Cash — drive timely valuations, applications, and final accounts; manage certification and retention.
  • Forecasting — provide reliable, supply chain input and evidenced cost-to-complete forecasts

Leadership and people

  • Team — lead, develop and where necessary strengthen the operational and site teams
  • Standards — set and enforce the delivery standard.
  • Supply chain — build and manage a supply chain capable of supporting significant growth
  • Leadership team — contribute as a peer to the CEO, CFO/finance and commercial leadership on strategy, capital allocation and growth planning.

Safety, quality and compliance

  • Own health, safety and environmental performance across all sites.
  • Own quality and snagging performance; drive down defects and rework.
  • Ensure full compliance with CDM and all relevant regulation, including the specific requirements of working on and around school sites.

Requirements

  • Experiencie working on projects both in the UK and overseas.
  • Substantial senior operational experience within a re-furbishment or interior fit-out main contractor
  • Demonstrable track record of delivering concurrently a combined portfolio of individual fit out and new build projects across design, pre-construction, build and maintenance period stages
  • Strong commercial acumen. Fluent in CVRs, contract management, cost-to-complete forecasting , valuations, variations, retentions and final accounts.
  • Evidence of protecting or improving margin on live projects, not just delivering them on time.
  • Proven leadership of multi-site, multi-project delivery teams.
  • Strong H&S record and a genuine safety-first mindset.

Benefits

  • Salary bracket – £90,000–£120,000
  • Performance bonus
  • Car allowance and benefits package, with longer-term incentives available
From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Workable (global search)'s own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Workable (global search)'s form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Workable (global search)'s answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.