Head of Construction

Role: Head of Construction

Location: Italy

My client is a market leading Wind and Solar IPP developer with a project pipeline of over 15GW across Europe. They have successfully developed and executed over 3GW of projects in the last 10 years.
Due to continued growth within the company, they are now looking for a Head of Construction to join their team and drive forward their success and support the business in achieving their short term and long-term goals.

Key Accountabilities:

• Establish and lead global construction competence centre with pool of specialised resources such as site managers, commissioning specialists, installation managers, client reps and installation specialists.
• Develop site construction guidelines/best practices
• Set commissioning requirements in line with internal and external standards.
• Deliver timely and in compliance with requirements commissioning of assets incl. individual components for COD.
• Plan construction services activities for the projects for on time and on budget delivery
• Build construction plan and provide input on budget implications to feed into the project business case.
• Coordinate commercial package interfaces/contract interfaces/ and installation interfaces (incl. logistics throughout construction phase
• Monitor and challenge project costs pre-FID and during construction to ensure delivery within set budgets.
• Monitor and track progress against the project’s schedule and identify potential delays.

Key Requirements:

• Full understanding of wind & solar value chain
• Dedicated large scale construction experience ideally within the renewables sector and proven track record in delivering projects successfully, to time and budget, despite challenging conditions.
• Complex project management experience
• HSE mentality
• Success driven personality, dedicated to deliver projects successfully.
• Strong technical and commercial acumen