19 jobs in GirlingJones

GirlingJones is seeking a Sector Director – Healthcare to lead nationwide growth in healthcare infrastructure. You will cultivate relationships with NHS bodies, ICSs and private providers, shaping investment strategy and identifying opportunities before procurement.

Reporting to senior leadership, you’ll influence strategic frameworks, guide bid teams and collaborate with operations and technical staff to secure major projects across the UK.

GirlingJones is seeking a Sector Director – Healthcare for a UK-wide role within a leading construction and infrastructure business. You will drive nationwide healthcare growth, build senior relationships with NHS Trusts, ICSs, NHS England, and private providers, and position the company as a trusted partner for major capital investments.

Reporting to the senior leadership, you will shape healthcare frameworks, identify opportunities early, influence procurement strategies, and lead

Sector Director – Healthcare

£130,000 – £140,000 + Executive Package

Nationwide | Hybrid Working

An exceptional opportunity has arisen with one of the UK’s foremost construction and infrastructure businesses, recognised for delivering some of the nation’s most prestigious and technically complex capital projects.
As the organisation continues to expand its presence within the healthcare sector, they’re looking to appoint an accomplished Sector Director – Healthcare to lead strategic growth across the UK. This is a senior leadership appointment focused on developing long‑term partnerships, influencing healthcare investment strategies and securing major capital opportunities before they enter procurement.
Rather than a traditional sales position, this role centres on strategic engagement, market influence and helping shape the future of healthcare infrastructure.

Reporting directly into the senior leadership team, you’ll take ownership of driving the organisation’s healthcare growth strategy nationwide.
You’ll establish and strengthen relationships with NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), NHS England and private healthcare providers, positioning the business as a trusted partner for major healthcare developments and capital investment programmes.
Working alongside operational leaders, technical specialists and bid teams, you’ll play a key role in identifying opportunities early, influencing strategic frameworks and helping secure nationally significant healthcare projects.

• Develop and maintain senior‑level relationships across NHS Trusts, ICs, and wider healthcare organisations.
• Identify future healthcare capital investment opportunities ahead of formal procurement.
• Lead strategic client engagement across major healthcare frameworks and programmes.
• Work collaboratively with operational and technical teams to develop tailored client strategies.
• Influence key framework appointments and long‑term healthcare investment opportunities.
• Act as executive sponsor for strategically important healthcare accounts.
• Support bid development activities to maximise win rates.
• Represent the business at conferences, networking events and executive‑level client meetings.
• Provide valuable market insight to support the ongoing healthcare growth strategy.

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced client‑facing professional with a strong network across the healthcare sector and a proven ability to build lasting relationships with senior stakeholders.

• Tier One Contractor
• Construction Consultancy
• Cost Consultancy
• Project Management Consultancy
• NHS Trust
• NHS England
• Integrated Care System (ICS)
• Public Sector Client Organisation

• Business Development Director
• Client Director
• Strategic Account Director
• Framework Director
• Healthcare Director
• Head of Business Development
• Director of Client Development
• Healthcare Lead
• Strategic Client Director
• Sector Director

• Experience building relationships with executive‑level stakeholders across the healthcare sector.
• A strong understanding of NHS capital investment programmes and healthcare estates.
• Knowledge of public sector procurement and framework delivery.
• Experience supporting or influencing major healthcare capital programmes.
• Exposure to initiatives such as ProCure23, the New Hospital Programme, Hospital 2.0 or similar national healthcare frameworks would be highly beneficial.

• £130,000 – £140,000 basic salary
• Executive bonus
• Company car or car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Generous pension contribution
• Dental cover
• 26+ days annual leave
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Excellent long‑term career progression with a market‑leading organisation

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious Sector Director – Healthcare to join a highly respected organisation during an exciting period of sustained investment within the healthcare sector.
You’ll influence nationally important healthcare programmes, work alongside industry‑leading professionals and help shape the delivery of future healthcare infrastructure across the UK while enjoying an outstanding executive package and genuine long‑term career opportunities.

Commercial Manager – Regional Civil Engineering | Highways & Infrastructure

This is a rare chance to take full commercial ownership of a growing regional civil engineering business unit, delivering highways and infrastructure projects across the South. A Commercial Manager to oversee a £40m regional highways and infrastructure business working for clients including:

• Local Authorities
• Private Developers
• Tier 1 Main Contractors
• National Highways

This isn’t a back‑office oversight role. This is about shaping a business unit, setting standards, and leading from the front.

This regional civil engineering arm delivers a mix of:

• Highways new build schemes
• Public realm and urban infrastructure
• Section works and framework packages
• Maintenance and improvement works

Projects range from reactive works through to major schemes exceeding £10m, with a growing pipeline of longer‑term, higher‑value contracts. The direction of travel is clear: structured growth, improved margins, stronger commercial control.

Lead Commercial Manager , you will own commercial performance across the Regional Civil Engineering portfolio. Managing a commercial team of 34 staff, you’ll work closely with delivery teams and clients, ensuring commercial discipline, governance and profitability across frameworks and standalone projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Full commercial leadership of highways & infrastructure projects
• Driving revenue, margin and financial performance
• Leading monthly CVR reviews and implementing corrective actions
• Managing framework-level commercial consolidationStrong NEC contract management, including Highways Term Service Agreements
• Risk and opportunity management
• Supporting bid strategy and pricing input
• Supply chain engagement and performance improvement
• Leading and developing a high‑performing commercial team

You will be highly visible within the business — influencing direction, strengthening standards and embedding accountability. Expect to spend 3 days per week in the office or on site, with hybrid flexibility where appropriate.

We’re looking for a commercially astute leader from a civil engineering background, ideally with highways experience.

You’ll bring:

• Proven commercial management experience within regional civil engineering
• Experience managing highways & infrastructure frameworks
• Strong NEC contract knowledge
• Experience operating as Principal Contractor and/or self‑delivery partner
• Exposure to projects ranging from small reactive works to major infrastructure schemes
• Strong leadership capability – developing teams and raising performance
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or similar
• RICS / CICES desirable but not essential

You’ll be confident, analytical, composed under pressure and comfortable influencing at senior level.

• Excellent Salary (based on experience)
• Bonus up to 20%
• Company car or car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Pension & life assurance
• 25 days annual leave plus birthday off
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced parental benefits
• Genuine opportunity to shape and grow a business unit

If you’re a Commercial Leader who wants more than just managing numbers — if you want to influence direction, shape culture and drive performance across a growing regional highways business — this is a serious opportunity.

Health Safety Manager – Winkleigh, Devon

The Company

We’re working with a highly successful and growing engineering and fabrication specialist based in Winkleigh, Devon . The business designs, fabricates and installs complex stainless steel process systems and structures into large-scale food manufacturing facilities across the South West. With a brand-new manufacturing hub under development and a strong pipeline of secured work, they are investing heavily in infrastructure, people and long-term growth.

As part of this expansion, they are now looking to appoint a dedicated Health and Safety Manager to strengthen standards across both workshop and site operations. This is a leadership role within a growing, forward-thinking engineering business that takes pride in doing things properly.

Reporting into senior management and forming part of the leadership team, you will take full ownership of Health, Safety and Compliance across their manufacturing facility and construction and installation on site.
You will develop, implement and enforce robust systems to ensure safe, compliant and efficient operations, supporting both workshop fabrication and on-site installation teams.

This is a hands-on, visible leadership role — not a clipboard-only position.

• Develop and implement health & safety strategies aligned with company objectives and legal requirements
• Ensure full compliance with current H&S legislation and industry standards
• Conduct risk assessments and identify potential hazards across workshop and site environments
• Produce Risk Assessments & Method Statements in advance of works
• Oversee regular workplace inspections and compliance audits
• Investigate incidents, analyse root causes and implement corrective actions
• Deliver internal health & safety training and toolbox talks
• Engage external specialist training providers where required
• Maintain accurate records, KPIs and performance reporting
• Lead compliance initiatives including ISO 9001 and other relevant accreditations
• Act as the primary contact for regulatory bodies including the HSE
• Contribute proactively at leadership level to improve business performance and culture

You will play a key role in embedding a strong safety-first mindset as the business scales.

We’re looking for an experienced Health & Safety professional with exposure to manufacturing, fabrication or construction environments .

You’ll bring:

• NEBOSH Qualification essential
• Experience setting up new systems of work and auditing existing procedures.
• Proven experience in a Health & Safety management role
• Strong knowledge of UK H&S legislation
• Ability to develop practical, workable systems — not just policy documents
• Strong communication skills and confidence influencing at all levels
• Experience managing audits and compliance processes
• A proactive, organised and solutions-driven mindset

Experience within stainless steel fabrication, food production or process engineering environments would be advantageous.

• Competitive salary (based on experience)
• Long-term career stability within a growing business
• Opportunity to shape systems from the ground up
• Leadership visibility and genuine influence
• Supportive, values-driven team culture
• The chance to build a compliance framework that grows with the company

This is an opportunity to step into a growing engineering business at a pivotal point — helping to build safe, compliant and scalable systems that support long-term success.

If you’re someone who takes pride in raising standards and leading by example, this is a role where you can make a real impact.

Principal Structural Engineer

A growing multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy is looking to appoint its first dedicated Principal Structural Engineer as part of an exciting period of expansion. With an established Civil Engineering team already delivering a strong pipeline of work, this is a unique opportunity for a Principal Structural Engineer to take ownership of the structural function and play a leading role in shaping its future direction.
Working closely with the Regional Director, the successful Principal Structural Engineer will have the chance to build and develop their own structural team over time, making this an ideal move for someone looking to step into management or an existing leader wanting greater autonomy and influence.

This is a rare opportunity to join a business with a substantial portfolio of live projects already secured across sectors including:

• MOD
• Education
• Healthcare
• Commercial

Unlike many growth roles, there is no expectation to build a workload from scratch. The projects, client relationships and wider infrastructure are already in place — allowing the incoming Principal Structural Engineer to focus on technical delivery, team development and long‑term growth.

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering structural designs and calculations across a varied project portfolio
• Undertaking structural inspections and site surveys
• Coordinating with clients, architects, contractors and multidisciplinary teams
• Supporting scheme design and value engineering exercises
• Reviewing drawings and calculations produced by colleagues
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers as the team grows
• Assisting with project planning, delivery and programme management
• Maintaining compliance with current legislation, design standards and quality procedures
• Contributing to the future growth and development of the structural engineering capability within the region

The business is keen to speak with ambitious engineers who are excited by the opportunity to help shape and grow a structural division.

• Experience designing steel, reinforced concrete and masonry structures
• Strong understanding of UK Building Regulations and NHBC standards
• Experience undertaking structural surveys and inspections
• Working knowledge of Revit and/or AutoCAD
• Experience using structural analysis and finite element modelling software
• Degree or HNC qualified within a relevant engineering discipline
• Working towards or already achieved Chartership with ICE or IStructE
• Strong communication and client‑facing skills
• A proactive and collaborative approach
• An interest in mentoring, leadership and team development

• Opportunity to establish and grow your own structural engineering team
• Direct mentorship and support from senior leadership
• Strong pipeline of secured projects across diverse sectors
• Clear progression and leadership opportunities
• Collaborative and supportive consultancy environment
• Ongoing CPD and professional development support
• Chance to make a genuine impact within a growing regional business

The Opportunity

An established, highly respected regional civil engineering contractor based in Exeter is looking to appoint a Senior Estimator to join a close-knit, sociable and forward-thinking team.

The business delivers diverse, technically interesting civil engineering projects across the South West, typically valued between £1m and £15m . They’re selective about the work they take on, proud of the quality they deliver, and genuinely known for looking after their people.

If you enjoy pricing real engineering from first principles , working collaboratively with delivery teams, and being trusted rather than micromanaged — this one’s for you.

As Senior Estimator , you’ll play a key role in shaping the company’s future workload, pricing and winning projects that are both commercially sound and technically satisfying.

You’ll be involved from early enquiry through to submission, working closely with pre-construction, engineering and delivery teams.

• Producing detailed estimates from first principles
• Pricing works under NEC forms of contract
• Supporting Junior Estimators and helping develop the team
• Reviewing drawings, specifications and scopes to fully understand risk and opportunity
• Working on tenders across water, environmental, infrastructure and structural projects

This role is for someone who knows their trade and enjoys it. You’ll bring:

• A strong civil engineering background
• Proven experience as an Estimator or Senior Estimator within civil engineering
• Confidence pricing work from first principles
• Solid understanding of NEC contracts
• Experience across one or more of: water treatment, pipelines, EA works, rail civils, bridges or structures
• A calm, methodical and commercially aware approach
• The ability to work collaboratively and communicate clearly

This company genuinely backs its people — professionally and personally.

• Salary up to £85,000
• Car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• Hybrid working – 2 days per week from home
• A sociable, friendly team with regular get-togethers
• Long-term stability with a strong regional pipeline
• A business that values quality, relationships and reputation over volume

f you’re a Senior Estimator who wants:

• More diverse projects
• Better balance
• Better culture

…without stepping away from proper civil engineering — this is a standout opportunity.

Apply in confidence to find out more.