Job Title: Construction Subcontract Manager
Duration: 12 Months
Schedule: Full-time, 5.5 days per week
Location: Talacre
This opportunity offers the chance to support complex EPIC project activity within the energy and infrastructure sector, with a focus on Mechanical Work, Buildings, and E&I works. The role is centred on subcontract administration, commercial management, change control, and forecast analysis across technically demanding construction scopes. This position would suit a professional who can operate effectively in offshore facilities, industrial plants, or other complex construction environments while helping drive project delivery and commercial performance.
Required Experience:
- Strong experience as a Quantity Surveyor
- Previous experience within offshore facilities, industrial plants, or complex construction projects
- Previous experience in the Oil & Gas or wider energy sector
- Experience supporting subcontract management, including commercial administration and close-out activities
- Experience reviewing progress payments, variations, claims, and cost impacts linked to project delivery
Required Skills:
- Strong subcontract administration and subcontract performance management capability
- Ability to lead Subcontract Engineers and Administrators within a project environment
- Commercial awareness across extra works, unit prices, claims, back charges, liquidated damages, and subcontract close-out
- Ability to analyse Site Technical Queries, Site Instructions, and Deviation Requests to determine cost impact
- Negotiation skills to align pricing and commercial outcomes with subcontractors
- Capability in change management and forecast analysis
- Ability to support project management teams in identifying variations and claims with programme and cost implications
- Strong communication skills for managing letters, notices, and subcontract correspondence
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exposure to contract management activities
About Airswift:
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry.
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