Assistant Construction Manager

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This role supports the successful delivery of complex Life Sciences construction projects, combining technical oversight, people leadership, and cross disciplinary coordination.

Role Overview

As an Assistant Construction Manager within Jacobs’ Life Sciences team in Ireland, you will play a key role in managing onsite construction activities for large scale Bio Pharma and advanced manufacturing projects. You’ll work closely with senior construction leadership, design teams, contractors, and client stakeholders to ensure safe, high quality, and timely project execution.This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic site environment, enjoys problem solving, and is eager to broaden their multi disciplinary knowledge across engineering, construction, and commissioning.

Key Responsibilities

• Construction oversight - Support day to day onsite supervision, ensuring works are executed safely, correctly, and in line with project specifications.
• Contractor coordination - Assist in managing subcontractors, monitoring progress, resolving issues, and maintaining productive working relationships.
• Quality assurance - Conduct inspections, review method statements, and ensure compliance with Life Sciences quality standards.
• Safety leadership - Promote a strong safety culture, participate in audits, and support implementation of site safety plans.
• Schedule and reporting - Track progress, identify risks, and support reporting to senior management and client teams.
• Stakeholder communication - Maintain clear communication across engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning teams.
• People management - Support supervision of site personnel and contribute to a collaborative, high performance team environment.

• Bio Pharma experience preferable, ideally on large scale or cleanroom related projects.
• Third level engineering qualification preferable (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Process, or similar).
• Minimum 8 years’ experience working on construction projects, ideally in highly regulated environments.
• Strong willingness to expand multi disciplinary knowledge across engineering and construction functions.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with contractors, clients, and internal teams.
• Proven people management capability, fostering teamwork and accountability onsite.

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Onsite employees are expected to attend a Jacobs Workplace on a full-time basis, as required by the nature of their role.

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