Construction Assistant

JOB TITLE: Construction Assistant

SALARY: £29,460 - £31,010

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least

two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

As a Construction Assistant within the Future Workplace team, you will play a critical role in shaping the environments where our colleagues work, collaborate, and thrive. This is not just about bricks and mortar—it’s about creating workplaces that are safe, sustainable, cost-effective, and designed for the future of work.

You will support the delivery of construction and property-related projects that align with the Group’s property strategy and ESG commitments, ensuring every investment delivers maximum value. From financial efficiency and quality assurance to health & safety compliance, sustainability, and exceptional colleague experience, you will help ensure that every project meets the highest standards.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is organised, proactive, and passionate about creating future-ready workplaces. You’ll gain exposure to major transformation programmes, learn from industry experts, and contribute to projects that directly impact how thousands of colleagues experience work every day.

Working at the heart of major transformation programmes and day-to-day delivery, you’ll be the connector who keeps everything moving. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive progress, overcome challenges, and maintain robust governance, ensuring every project stays on track and delivers exceptional outcomes.

Your role will see you being responsible for the detail that makes the difference—tracking budgets, timelines, and quality metrics, supporting tender processes, and embedding sustainability and safety principles into every decision. You’ll be the voice of commercial rigour, ensuring that every pound spent delivers maximum value.

In this role, you’ll shape the future of construction delivery, with a sharp focus on cost control and commercial oversight. You’ll provide strategic, commercially sound advice, balancing risk and opportunity, managing stakeholders with confidence, and making recommendations that influence key decisions. This is your chance to combine financial foresight, operational insight, and a passion for creating future-ready workplaces.

Day to day, you will:

• Lead value management and continuous improvement activities across construction and workplace programmes to maximise value and return on investment.

• Align projects with strategic goals, including Zero Carbon 2030, inclusivity, and customer experience. 

• Drive cost transparency, benchmark suppliers, and ensure competitive procurement. 

• Introduce standard process and innovation to improve speed, quality, and resilience. 

• Oversee contract administration, valuations, and cost control. 

• Provide commercially sound advice, balancing risk and opportunity. 

• Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to deliver on time and budget. 

• Report on KPIs and present insights to senior stakeholders. 

• Support tendering, governance, and sustainability initiatives. 

• Attend site meetings and inspections, ensuring compliance and quality. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• Quality Assurance: Capable of advising peers and suppliers on how to embed pre-defined process and procedures, while using experience to make judgements where certain activities may have acted outside these pre-defined rules and how to address them.

• Creativity and Innovative solutions: Adept at challenge current thinking and status quo constructively.  With the ability to proactively turn new ideas/products/services into reality. Can experiment, take manageable risks, and learns from the results.

• Supplier Performance: Experience of advising against complex supplier queries, ensuring agility and resilience of relationships. Aligning supplier engagement, management, and tracking approach with Business strategy to promote cost savings and reduce supply chain risk.

• Collaboration: capable of building professional relationships and networks as part of day-to-day work. Understands differences between people and seeks opportunities to work collaboratively across boundaries (e.g., with different teams, business areas, cultures etc.).

• Values & Behaviours: Is future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy. Finds solutions, not problems. An early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset. Works with integrity and promotes a collaborative and inclusive environment.

• Data Literacy: Capable of designing, developing and applying data and analytics experience in day-to-day role to drive effective decision making. Driving the team to become data-driven and use data in their day-to-day roles.

• Business and Commercial Insight: Experience at applying knowledge to monitor changes to business and marketplace and understands the impact on the Group or own area of work. Translates understanding of business impacts into practical actions.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience in construction, property, or programme management.

• Understanding of value engineering, cost estimating and cost planning, and procurement.

• Ability to negotiate commercial outcomes

• Understanding of the technical elements of construction work

• Familiarity with ESG principles and sustainable construction practices.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.