SDC (Support during Construction) Manager

Overview PM Group is a leading International Engineering, architecture, project and construction management firm. With a network of offices in Europe, Asia and the US and a multi-discipline team of 4,000+ people, we deliver complex, capital projects in the life sciences, food and beverages, mission critical/ICT, advanced manufacturing, energy and environmental sectors. We are seeking a Support During Construction (SDC) Manager for a major pharmaceutical construction project in Denmark. This is an excellent opportunity to work on a high-profile, complex project within a dynamic and collaborative environment. This is a full-time, site-based role. The SDC Manager acts as the single point of contact onsite for the planning, organising, execution and control of the Support During Construction Team. The role coordinates timely, technically robust support from the engineering and design team to construction, contractors, vendors and the Client, within the agreed Scope of Services, and Resource Plan. Responsibilities

• Provide the central coordination point for SDC planning, priorities, execution, control and escalation across the engineering disciplines.
• Ensure the team understands the agreed SDC Scope of Services, responsibility boundaries, available budget hours, and the basis for recording hours/ activities.
• Ensure vendor and contractor RFIs and submittals are routed to the correct discipline, answered comprehensively, recorded and returned within the agreed timelines.
• Review contractor design where included within SDC or Design Completion, and Final Integration services.
• Coordinate technical clarifications, site meetings, site inspections, installation reviews, first-of-kind reviews, test witnessing, and other contracted engineering support.
• Interface between the office-based design team and the site construction teams.
• Maintain auditable records of responses and decisions, coordinate critical red-line mark-ups where included in scope.
• Prioritise issues that could affect construction progress, escalate significant design or interface matters promptly, and challenge RFIs that duplicate information already available in the IFC documentation.
• Maintain visibility of work queues, ageing, turnaround times, open and closed status, discipline workload, resource usage and key risks, with regular reporting to the Project Manager and relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience, with sufficient technical strength and experience to deal effectively with contractors and site issues.
• Good knowledge of the project design basis, IFC design packages, discipline interfaces and the agreed Scope of Services.
• Experience of engineering or design management during the EP/DD stage is preferred to support continuity into construction.
• Ability to plan and coordinate multi-discipline resources and prioritise competing construction demands.
• Strong communication, record-keeping, decision coordination, and escalation skills.
• Commercial awareness, including management of budget hours.

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