David Burton
Worcester,Worcestershire
Summary
Civil engineering manager with extensive experience in delivering critical infrastructure projects in wastewater and clean water sectors. Strong technical expertise in construction, including temporary works and confined space procedures, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and legal regulations. Proven ability to lead large-scale construction programs, effectively resolve design challenges, and advocate for site safety. Committed to collaborative project execution while maintaining high standards of health, safety, and quality.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Contract Manager
Ringway Vinci
Worcester, Worcestershire
2025.08 - 2026.02
- PC Temporary Works Coordinator
- Project focus is framework with Worcestershire County Council to deliver major projects highways schemes
- Key Responsibilities
- Oversee successful delivery of highway projects, from inception through design development, mobilisation, implementation and completion.
- Lead teams to achieve performance targets, operational excellence and client satisfaction
- Manage resource effectively to optimise service delivery and meet contractual KPI’s.
- Monitor budgets and financial performance, ensuring cost-efficient operations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and local authorities.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, focusing on safety, compliance, and innovation in service delivery.
- Ensure all operations align with health, safety and environmental best practices.
Construction Manager
Severn Trent Water
Worcester, Worcestershire
2025.03 - 2025.08
- Project focus is mains renewal for AMP 8 capital works program
- Key Responsibilities
- Work across project lifecycle from concept, ECI, delivery and through handover and lead delivery team in engagement with site operational teams and supply chain partners on multiple sites.
- Pre-construction Early Planning to Create More Efficient Construction Phase to identify site constraints, identify risks, create efficiencies in programme and provide cost certainty.
- Streamlined workflow through strategic resource allocation.
- Managed site operations ensuring adherence to safety regulations.
- Conducted regular site inspections for quality assurance.
- Assist with construction strategies and programs ensuring are setting up and delivering safely to quality, time and budget.
- Collaborate with wider program team to develop robust pre-construction plans and forecasts for delivery, looking for efficiency opportunities, challenging programs, and construction sequencing whilst inputting constructability advice.
- Create and lead positive working culture to promote safe, efficient and high-quality delivery by adapting plans to accommodate changes or improvements.
- Support drive to achieve zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
- Report key project and program risks and work with wider team to mitigate or manage effectively.
- Conducted routine quality audits, verifying progression against specifications and initiating corrective actions to remedy concerns.
- Performed detailed safety briefings and new team member inductions, reducing onsite risks.
- Promoted best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with SHEQ department.
Senior Agent
Kier Natural Resources (Water)
, West Midlands
2024.10 - 2025.03
- Project focus is collaborative delivery framework contract with Severn Trent Water.
- AMP 7/8 Framework Capital works & Green Recovery River Schemes.
- Key Responsibilities
- Support Senior Project Manager (SPM) and responsible for direction and leadership of all Severn Trent site activities.
- Focus on successful planning, running and completing projects. Collaborate with all teams involved in projects and make sure project produces necessary outputs while meeting deadlines and staying within budget for lifecycle of project / contract in accordance with overall project schedule.
- Involvement at pre- tender and pre-construction stage and guide and motivate pre-construction and ECI team for given projects, coordinating deliverables of team from feasibility proposal, throughout pre-construction (design development and scope definition) to formulation of final submission to secure delivery agreement for construction whilst ensuring knowledge transfer, developing robust proposals and managing risk.
- Scope accountability includes design and delivery of construction works to include site mobilisation and set up, installation of early and permanent drainage and utilities to enable follow on scopes to commence.
- Liaising with multiple teams and working within multi-disciplinary area teams to ensure strategic needs of project are met and key milestones achieved.
Freelance Construction Manager
CPC Civil Engineering
, West Midlands
2024.04 - 2024.10
- Project focus is collaborative delivery framework contract with Severn Trent Water.
- Green Recovery River Schemes.
- Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring that HSQE Management Systems and processes are adhered to, implemented and maintained.
- Understand Safety Statement and ensure that it is readily available on each site.
- Plan, manage and deliver their project in performance and fashion that epitomizes company’s vision, strategy and values
- Plan all construction operations to ensure required deadlines will be met.
- Adhere to Company Safety Standards and promote safety culture among ranks throughout their project.
- Supervise work of staff, operatives, sub-contractors etc. and give them guidance when needed.
- Determine required resources (manpower, plant, equipment, subcontractors and materials) from commencement stage through to completion considering budgetary constraints.
- Obtain permits and licenses from appropriate authorities.
- Ensure project complies with all legal or regulatory requirements.
- Communicate with clients and their representatives (engineers and surveyors etc.), including attending regular meetings to keep them informed of progress
- Manage, monitor and interpret contract documents supplied in-house and/or by client and their representatives.
- Co-ordination of temporary and permanent works design including obtaining required certificates
- Evaluate progress on site.
- Monitor and report to Regional Director on project particulars, including Progress, Program, Finance, HSQE, Risks & Opportunities, all in timely manner.
- Measurement and valuation of works completed on site (in collaboration with project quantity surveyor where appropriate)
- Managed site operations ensuring adherence to safety regulations.
- Conducted regular site inspections for quality assurance.
- Conducted routine quality audits, verifying progression against specifications and initiating corrective actions to remedy concerns.
- Enforced quality procedures for all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities.
Construction Manager
Avove Utilities
, West Midlands
2023.09 - 2024.03
- Project focus is collaborative delivery framework contract with Severn Trent Water
- Key Responsibilities
- Conducted routine quality audits, verifying progression against specifications and initiating corrective actions to remedy concerns.
- Conducted regular site inspections for quality assurance.
- Management of portfolio of high priority projects ensuring these are delivered by business within parameters of time, cost, and quality.
- Implemented strict health and safety regulations for continued compliance with site requirements.
- Preparing package and contract plans to achieve clients’ requirements and specifications.
- Submitting any possession, isolation, and traffic management requests to enable work.
- Fulfilling role of Temporary Works Coordinator across portfolio of projects.
- Procure all materials and oversee deliveries and ensure are done so in adequate time in line with construction program and procurement schedule.
- Planning and management of activities and deliverables to reach appropriate outcome.
- Providing guidance and practical advice to project teams for execution of contract work.
- Management of site level Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) performance for projects.
- Monitor performance against programs and resource requirements.
- Oversee construction of various civil engineering projects, from conception to completion, ensuring adherence to schedules and budgets.
- Attend regular progress meetings and monthly CVR meetings.
Project Manager
Jackson Civil Engineering
, UK Wide
2021.02 - 2023.09
- Project focus is a collaborative delivery framework contract with Environment agency flood & coastal erosion risk management program.
- Key Responsibilities
- Early supplier engagement from option engineering, outline and detailed design, project delivery and project completion.
- Overall management of teams and responsibility of construction phase to achieve project delivery.
- Supervise and direct construction works on site ensuring project is completed safely, delivered on time and on budget by setting benchmarks, agreeing budgets and monitoring progress
- Contributing to value engineering of project.
- Agreement of programs and methods of construction.
- Planning, directing, and coordinating all project activities and schedules within construction site.
- Overseeing all project design, interacting with clients, set expectations and track changes to scope of works.
- Ensure that resource requirements, production outputs and overhead targets are established, monitored, and controlled.
- Manage reporting, including daily reports, weekly progress updates, and compliance documentation.
- Manage all permitting and approvals.
- Ensure all testing regimes are in place and work inspection requests and check sheets are implemented and adhered to.
- Identify temporary works requirements and safe implementation.
- Ensure non-conformance reports are produced, root cause analysis investigated and closed out.
- Communicate across teams and with supply chain subcontractors to increase efficiency and track quality control inspection and test plans are produced and implemented.
- Input into close out of contract documentation, sign off QA documentation and input into Health and Safety file.
- Ensure all project quality standards and handover requirements are met.
- Provide technical reviews of services, products, and subcontracts within project
Construction Manager
J Murphy
Birmingham
2020.02 - 2021.02
- Project focus is enabling works and multi-utilities diversions and non-contestable utility connections for HS2
- Key Responsibilities
- Management of site delivery teams during construction and installation phase of project.
- Co-ordination of constructability input during solutions identification and development phase
- Management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials
- Performance management of subcontractors.
- Plan and deliver all work on site at multiple locations
- Ensure that all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with agreed quality procedures.
- Supervised workforce maintaining high levels of productivity on-site.
- Conducted regular site inspections for quality assurance.
- Managed site operations ensuring adherence to safety regulations.
- Reported on progress, problems and information requirements.
- Enforced quality procedures for all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities.
- Performed detailed safety briefings and new team member inductions, reducing onsite risks.
Construction Manager
Draper Civil Engineering
Birmingham, West Midlands
2018.04 - 2020.02
- Project focus is construction of new clean water treatment plant as part of Frankley Birmingham resilience project.
- Key Responsibilities
- Delivery of construction works safely, within budget and on program
- Management, supervision, and coordination of all construction activities – Deep excavations and drainage, slip lining, Shaft sinking, Horizontal directional drilling, Pipe jacking, pipe bursting, timber headings.
- Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, ITPs, and waste management plans, in line with Company procedures.
- Preparation, approval, and delivery of RAMS, SSOW, permits, site inductions and briefings.
- Ensure all HSEQ procedures on site comply with legislation and ensure high standards are consistently maintained.
- Input to and monitoring of agreed program, budget, and collaborative planning sessions.
- Streamlined workflow through strategic resource allocation.
- Supervised workforce maintaining high levels of productivity on-site.
- Conducted regular site inspections for quality assurance.
- Enforced quality procedures for all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities.
- Conducted routine quality audits, verifying progression against specifications and initiating corrective actions to remedy concerns.
- Supervised work of contractors and subcontractors to achieve targets against deadlines.
- Mitigated potential risks by conducting thorough risk assessments.
Senior Agent
Costain PLC
, West Midlands
2014.08 - 2018.04
- Project focus is framework contract for Severn Trent Water AMP5 & AMP6 to deliver clean & wastewater non-infrastructure networks.
- Key Responsibilities
- Delivery of main civils structural package, ensuring project is constructed in accordance with design, budget, and program from scheme conception to hand over.
- Assist with co-ordination of construction staff on projects ensuring that appropriate construction and installation staff are appointed to individual projects: based on experience, skills, and knowledge.
- Maintaining and enforcing HSEQ procedures as required by company policies
- Ensuring temporary and permanent works are delivered in accordance with design
- Risk Assessments and Method statement (RAMS) preparation and ownership
- Ensuring all permit to work systems are in place
- Communicating WPP’s, task briefs, TBT’s, and safety alerts
- Overall management of construction resources including Labour, Plant and Materials
- Produce procurement schedules and liaise with procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete
- Input into construction program.
- Ensuring all project KPI’s and KPM’s are achieved.
- Produce and manage project program and produce 2 weeks look ahead.
- Conduct daily safety inspections of all works within project
- Performance management of subcontractors
- Provide leadership to create safety culture to ensure zero LTI and RIDDOR incidents
- Ensure key project and program risks are identified early and mitigated where possible.
Education
Level 6 NVQ Diploma - Construction Management - Civil Engineering
CITB
Skills
- Extensive experience as Civil Engineering Manager with comprehensive understanding of Civil Engineering and strong technical knowledge
- Experience in delivering critical infrastructure and non-Infrastructure projects in wastewater and clean water sector
- Experienced construction technical knowledge in Temporary works and Confined Space procedures
- Experienced in management of and monitoring project programs
- Extensive experience in large-scale construction programs
- Proven ability to lead and manage complex projects in civil engineering sector
- Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to conclusion
- Working collaboratively to deliver project right first time without compromising Health, Safety and Quality
- Microsoft office suite proficiency
- Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health, Safety and legal regulations
- Health and Safety Compliance
- Site Inspections
Certification
- NVQ Level 6 Diploma Construction Site Management
- SMSTS – Site Manager
- CSCS - Black Manager
- CSCS - Health, Safety & Environment test for Managers and Professionals
- IOSH - Managing Safely
- IOSH – Safety Health and Environment for Construction Site Managers
- IOSH - Environmental
- CITB - Temporary Works Coordinator
- CITB - Confined Space - Level 2 Award in Working in
- Medium Risk Confined Spaces (6160-02)
- CITB - Confined Space - Level 2 Award in Entrant and Entry Controller for Medium Risk Confined Spaces (6160-09)
- HDD (Horizontal Direction Drilling) for Managers
- CITB - SEATS Environmental Awareness
- NRSWA Supervisor
- HSG47 - Unit 1 Management, Planning & Surveying, Issuing of Permit (Cable & Underground Avoidance)
- NEC4 contract awareness and understanding
- NEC 4 Suite of Contracts – NEC training formats 1-10
- CDM (Construction Design Management Regulations) Water Industry
- CDM 2015 (Construction Design Management Regulations) awareness
- EUSR HSG 47 / GS6 Service Avoidance
- EUSR Excavation Safety
- EUSR SHEA Water Hygiene
- EUSR Water Hygiene
- Water Quality Awareness – Public Health
- Asbestos Awareness (Category A)
- MHFA - Mental Health Awareness for Managers
- MHFA - Mental Health First Aider
- FAW - First Aid at Work Level 3
- (AED) Automated External Defibrillation trained
References
References are available upon request
Timeline
Contract Manager
Ringway Vinci
2025.08 - 2026.02
Construction Manager
Severn Trent Water
2025.03 - 2025.08
Senior Agent
Kier Natural Resources (Water)
2024.10 - 2025.03
Freelance Construction Manager
CPC Civil Engineering
2024.04 - 2024.10
Construction Manager
Avove Utilities
2023.09 - 2024.03
Project Manager
Jackson Civil Engineering
2021.02 - 2023.09
Construction Manager
J Murphy
2020.02 - 2021.02
Construction Manager
Draper Civil Engineering
2018.04 - 2020.02
Senior Agent
Costain PLC
2014.08 - 2018.04
Level 6 NVQ Diploma - Construction Management - Civil Engineering
CITB