Osborne

What makes us different?

In our drive to be a sustainable business we recognise that the impact of what we do goes far beyond the physical build. How we behave, how we treat others in our work and public communities, how we learn, develop and innovate has far reaching impacts on society.

No other industry has the opportunity to shape, influence, and make such a difference. By constantly pushing the boundaries, allowing ourselves to imagine, dream and solve problems, we fulfil our purpose to improve people’s lives.

What are our values?

Improving people lives as a solution provider that creates value, reduces risk and simplifies governance.

Delivering a good quality product with reliable delivery, more agile operations and assured quality.

Making the project experience easy, being efficient to work with through customer focussed ways of working.

Optimising the performance of our customers’ assets, being effective to work with, focussed on outcomes, continually learning and improving.

Put simply everyone in every role at Osborne has the opportunity to deliver a very special and different approach to our customers, influencers, suppliers, end users and the general public. Thus ensuring that our long-term thinking is always driving our short-term behaviours and decisions

We’re committed to making sure that Osborne is a great place to work and, whilst we know that it isn’t all about the money, we recognise that it’s pretty important!

Because of that, we make sure that we offer some fantastic benefits for our people, including:

• Competitive salary
• Company Car / Car Allowance
• Private Healthcare, Pension and Life Assurance
• Annual Leave
• Birthday Day off
• Development Day
• And many more employee benefits are available.

Being Osborne

To be part of our journey we look for people who are passionate about what they do, and want to make a difference to the lives of those we impact with the work that we do. This could be from building a new school which improves the education of thousands of students, building new homes which will provide an environment for families to grow to improving a road network so more people can travel through it safely. To make all these great things happen we employ a wide range of people with lots of different skills and experiences. Some of the functions that we employ into include:

Project Management

Our Project Managers are responsible for working with our internal teams and our clients to ensure that our projects are completed successfully. Roles within Project Management include:

Project Manager
Construction Manager
Programme Manager

Finance

We have a central finance team who’s responsibility it is to work with all of our businesses ensuring that we manage our money effectively at all times. This is important as it means we can continue to grow as a business and continue to have a positive impact through the work we do. Roles within Finance include:

Finance and Accounts Assistant
Financial Controller
Head of Finance

Site Management

Site Managers are based on our project sites and will ensure that the works that are carried out are done so safely and effectively at all times. They are ultimately responsible for all site operations. Roles with Site Management include:

Site Manager
Site Supervisor
General Foreperson
Site Engineer
Mechanical and Electrical Manager

Marketing and Communications

How we present ourselves, whether that is the values of the business or showcasing a great piece of work we have completed is very important. To help us do this we have a Marketing and Communications team, their role is to attract new customers, mange our public relations and engagement with the press and media. The team also lead on internal communications to our people across all our businesses. Roles within Marketing and Communication include:

Marketing & Communication Co-ordinator
Technical Writer

Commercial Management

It’s really key that we are able to manage the finances of all of our projects. To help do this we have commercial teams in each of our businesses who are responsible for ensuring that we have specialist suppliers appointed for each project and to ensure our projects are delivered on budget. Roles within Commercial Management include:

Commercial Assistant
Quantity Surveyor
Commercial Manager

Human Resources

Our People team are there to support the development of our people, whilst ensuring that our working environments are places free from discrimination, where you are able to be yourself so you are able to contribute positively to our success. Roles within Human Resources include:

People Administrator
Employee Relations Specialist
Learning and Development Coordinator

Safety, Health, Environment and Sustainability

For us as a business, nothing comes before safety. To help ensure that we work in a safe and responsible manner we have a team of professionals. They might help introduce new and safer ways of working, or educating our site teams on changing regulations that affect the construction industry. Roles within Safety, Health, Environment and Sustainability include:

Safety, Health and Environment Advisor
Health and Wellbeing Manager
Group Sustainability Manager

Pre-Construction

To help us win work, and then plan how to deliver that work successfully we have a number of people who work within Pre-Construction. Pre-Construction focuses on planning activities before actually start on site, whether that is related to the design of the project, how much it should cost to complete or how long it will takes. Roles within Pre-Construction include:

Bid Manager
Pre-Construction Manager
Design Manager
Estimator
Proposals/Technical Writer
Proposals Manager

IT

It would be impossible for us to be successful as a business if we did not have great technology and systems. Our IT function looks after these networks and systems, always looking for more innovative ways so we can be even more efficient in delivering work. Roles within IT include:

Systems Engineer
Service Desk Technician
Technical Solutions Manager

Trades

For our maintenance works across property and rail we employ a number of operatives whose role it is to go out to our sites and carry out repair works. If this is for a resident whose home we are helping to maintain this might be replacing a window or a door so they feel safe. Alternatively it could be on part of the rail network where our operative is there so the public can travel without disruption. Roles within Trades include:

Multi-Skilled Operative
Carpenter
Plumber