Senior Site Manager in Morley

Within the Construction environment, think about buying materials, managing big projects, ensuring health and safety and customer service. At any given time, you will find us working on around 400 developments in both towns and rural areas across the UK, and every one poses unique challenges. Some are from scratch on brownfield sites; others involve adapting existing buildings, such as old factories or disused hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance on site at all times with company health and safety standards and processes, NHBC standards, building regulations, and overall quality standards.
• Co‐ordinating labour and resources on site to deliver the build programme on larger developments, and proactively scheduling trades to ensure optimum delivery.
• Managing material levels on larger sites to ensure a minimum amount of stock while maintaining programme requirements and efficient labour utilisation.
• Ensuring every plot is built to the highest standard of quality, complying with NHBC Standards, Building Regulations, range specifications, and best practice.
• Undertaking company‐directed quality control procedures and inspections at the correct timings, and rectifying defects to avoid additional cost, time delays or quality reductions.
• Monitoring and controlling the cost of production, and approving payments to contractors and trades where appropriate.
• Initiating and attending plot inspections with the Local Building Inspector or NHBC, taking corrective action to maintain at least minimum RI's/BRI's.
• Conducting toolbox talks or similar on‐site briefings to influence, secure commitment and drive best practice.
• Maintaining a proactive approach to mitigate risk, build sequencing and overall quality on site.
• Liaising with internal departments, external suppliers and partners to achieve the build programme.
• Working with sales through regular sales/build meetings to ensure smooth and controlled delivery of homes for customers.
• Delivering a high standard of site presentation at all times.
• Carrying out New Home Tours with the Sales Advisor and customer(s), providing demonstrations, answering questions and rectifying issues before legal completion.
• With support from the Contracts Manager, ensuring that the on‐site construction team is fully resourced, directed and well supported through communication, training, development and workload organisation.
• Modeling good behaviour across health and safety, organisation, conduct, quality of work and professionalism.

What you will need

• Extensive experience of working to an established build programme and managing key priorities on challenging sites.
• Proven ability to consistently deliver weekly targets through proactive organisation of the labour force and fostering a team‐working ethic.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to secure commitment and compliance, and to drive delivery.
• Demonstrated strong leadership and assertive skills to ensure optimum delivery at the highest quality standards on site.
• Ability to prioritise tasks proactively to anticipate and meet changing business needs.
• Strong problem‐solving ethic, capable of identifying root causes of problems.
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Builders and/or qualified to NVQ level 5 in Construction Management, or an experienced tradesperson with knowledge of the full range of construction trades.
• In‐depth knowledge of all aspects of construction and housebuilding, and relevant legislative requirements such as health and safety, NHBC requirements and Building Regulations.
• Comprehensive experience dealing with customers and potential customers, including information provision, issue resolution, and confirmation of company procedures.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Competitive bonus scheme
• Private medical cover – single cover
• Company car or cash allowance
• Annual medical health assessment
• 26 days' holiday (increasing by 1 day for every 3 years of continuous service up to 29 days)
• Choice of flexible benefits
• Enhanced family‐friendly policies
• Private healthcare support with access to a virtual GP, diagnostic, treatment services, physio and talking therapies, and the option to add family members.
• First‐class pension schemes with up to 10% employer contributions.
• Employee loans and savings accounts, and house purchase discounts.
• Cycle‐to‐work scheme, reduced hotel rates, discounts at major retailers, and other lifestyle benefits.
• Paid volunteer and study leave, enhanced family‐friendly policies (including Parents and Carers leave), a share‐buying scheme and more.

We are a 5‐star housebuilder recognised nationally since 2010, offering tailored opportunities for apprentices, graduates, experienced professionals and ex‐armed forces personnel. Our hybrid working model allows office‐based colleagues to split time between office, sites, sales offices and working from home, where appropriate. We welcome diverse talent and cherish a culture that promotes progress and pride in working for us.