Senior Construction Manager (Construction)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our "school in a box" systems.
Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for
less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their
costs and create a profitable central organization at scale. Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About Bridge International Academies
Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model. The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our "school in a box" systems.
We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across continent
About this position
Bridge International Academies is looking a strong Senior Construction Manager to help our construction team manage the scheduling and resource allocation of its construction projects.
More specifically:
- The individual will be managing anywhere from 30-60
construction projects simultaneously. These projects are not complex, but
the deadlines are tight and the resources are limited. As a result it will
be very important efficiently manage resources so as to know exactly how
every resource is prioritized and allocated for every hour of every day.
- This position involves day-to-day management of construction
supervisors in order to control quality and time schedules for each project and at the same time ensuring handovers are maintained at the
desired rates.
- Responsibilities include project planning, preparing updating
and managing programmes, extracting schedules, work planning and
re-organisation to recover from unforseeable situations to meet deadlines.
- Besides ensuring that tasks are moving forward in the correct
places, the Senior Construction Manager will need to ensure that
appropriate and timely decisions for incidental daily challenges on the
sites.
- It involves formulating reporting procedures, processes, data
collection and collation mechanisms to ensure that adequate reporting is
regularly carried out for departmental decision making.
- In addition to this, working in informal settlements can be
very challenging and may require many last minute changes to the
priorities and schedules. The individual will need to be comfortable
making last minute adjustments and redeploying resources to meet the
priorities of the company.
About You
- Minimum of 8 to 10 years experience in formal construction
management, including projects that have more than 10 resources that need
to be scheduled in and out of the project over the life cycle of the
project to optimize costs.
- An expert level knowledge of how to effectively use Gantt
charts, including complete fluency in Microsoft Project or equivalent
program. Advanced knowledge and skills in MS Office, especially Excel
including creating Gantt charts and reporting documents.
- Good people management skills that result in timely
completion of deliverables, good work relations and a positive work
environment.
- Ability to identify potential problems, conflicts, and delays
before they become an issue and communicate them clearly to the Head of
Construction.
- Must be able to manage competing demands, accept criticism
and constructive feedback, while being extremely adaptable and flexible.
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills are required
complete with report writing.
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems.
You can
apply and view detailed job requisitions on the Careers page at
www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
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