Who is hiring, where the roles are, and what the demand is telling you about your next move. And once a week, one big build told through the detail that made it.
AtkinsRealis and Balfour Beatty hold 24% of every director, head-of and chief role on the list.
London and Birmingham account for 41 of the 139.
53 new roles added this week.
A senior role here is an open UK vacancy with director, head of or chief in its title, at the contractors and programmes we watch. The count is live and moves daily, so it will not match the figure in a dated Insight.
What the demand is telling us →A million young people out of work, an industry 206,000 people short. The numbers, the three ideas that could change things on site, and five questions every construction board should answer before the report lands.
Benjamin Baker explained the Forth Bridge in 1887 with two men on chairs, some sticks, two piles of bricks and Kaichi Watanabe sitting in the middle.
The Budget moved money to mayors, revived Help to Buy and set an apprentice target. The constraint now is the client-side leaders who can deliver it.
308 senior director and head-of roles are open across the top contractors, and Balfour Beatty has posted the same Project Commercial Director brief four times.
The Humber Bridge and the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge both set their towers dead vertical, which is why the earth pushes their tops apart.
Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel shield of 1825 and Jill, the Silvertown Tunnel's boring machine, solved the same problem: holding the ground up while you dig.
The Severn Tunnel's Great Spring of 1879 beside HS2's Chiltern tunnel through the chalk aquifer: two ways of keeping groundwater out of a bore.
Charles Draper's rising sector gate holds back the sea at the Thames Barrier and, fifty years on, at the Boston Barrier on the Haven.
Hinkley Point C's Big Carl and the creeper cranes of the Sydney Harbour Bridge were each built for a single job, and what came after is the question.
Bell Rock lighthouse rose in the hours the tide allowed; Dogger Bank wind farm is rising in the windows the North Sea weather allows.
Construction cuts trainees first in every downturn. The gap shows up a decade later in the senior seats nobody can fill. A hypothesis, and how we'll test it.
A developer and a law firm say design and build has lost its edge on complex schemes. The contract argument is sound. The harder question is whether clients have the people to carry the risk that comes home.
Mace posted 45 new senior roles this week, over half of all new senior vacancies added across UK construction, mostly associate director grade.
Balfour Beatty's regional civils MD says ECI is how you take risk out of infrastructure schemes. She is right. But the process only works if the right people are in the room on both sides, and nobody puts them on the risk register.
A fortnight of construction headlines, read the way a recruiter reads them, and an honest account of why I am publishing that reading for free instead of keeping it in the drawer.
Durkan Holdings has walked away from contracting entirely after fifty years, blaming regulatory risk rather than a lack of work. What that decision means for where the industry's compliance-savvy senior talent goes next, and what it should tell you about the risk you're paid to carry.
The one-page spec I agree with every client before a name goes out: ten things you can evidence, five you would like, and the questions that test them.
Why retaining older workers, and passing on what they know, has become one of the most pressing questions in UK construction and infrastructure.
Five hospital schemes, five main contractors, one region. The Norwich supplier day will answer which firms can deliver the work. It cannot answer the harder question: which people will lead it.
130 senior construction vacancies are open right now, and 72 of them, well over half, sit with just two contractors: Mace and Balfour Beatty.
The live count of open director and head-of level roles across UK contractors and programmes, and what it says about where the market is moving.
For the first time in a generation, a prime minister has said out loud what construction has been muttering for years. Andy Burnham's plan to put technical training on an equal footing with academic
Five UK water companies have changed chief executive inside a year. That is not coincidence, it is a sector resetting its leadership in the middle of AMP8.
Andy Burnham has backed a land value tax since 2010. He is now the likely next Prime Minister.