Site Manager

Job Location: Exeter, United Kingdom

Contract Type: Permanent Contract, Full Time, On-site/Office based, Occasional travel required.

Information at a Glance: Bouygues UK is a leading construction and property development company in the United Kingdom. It is part of Bouygues Construction which employs 35,600 people around the world, all driven by the greatest and most exciting responsibility of all – building for life.

Bouygues UK has a fantastic opportunity available for a Site Manager to work on an exciting project in Exeter. The project is a large scale (~£270M) and long term (3-year duration) student accommodation scheme, comprising of 6 new-build blocks and a refurbishment of an existing block.

Job Purpose and Scope: Site Manager responsible for facades, curtain walling and roof works. Oversees project timeframes and budgets, ensuring successful delivery of the project, highlighting any risks, challenges and mitigations. To ensure effective and efficient production within the project programme, with a key focus around commercial awareness, robust quality controls with Health and Safety paramount to the project's success.

Accountabilities and Key Tasks:

• Responsible for the facades, curtain walling and roof works on the project, in coordination with a wider team for a successful overall project delivery.
• Support the commercial team in the package procurement with the commercial and design team for the relevant packages.
• Lead the delivery of these packages whilst coordinating the works with surrounding trades.
• Work closely with the Site Engineer to ensure correct works checks are completed.
• Support the project planner and sub-contractor to ensure a robust package programme is both established and executed.
• Manage the daily activities of the appointed ground works contractor, in respect of Health and Safety, quality controls and programme management.
• Manage the costs associated with the works, supporting the commercial team with monthly valuations and analysing any variations should they arise.
• Lead weekly progress meetings and produce the required timeline of works and action points.
• Subcontractor management to ensure projects are delivered on time and compliant.
• Control of subcontractors and directly employed labour.
• Liaison with the Client and their agents.
• Review ongoing works with a view to highlight potential defects.
• Advising production teams on lessons learned.
• Attend daily Start Up Safety Meetings with the sub-contractors.
• Attend and lead daily Black Hat and Coordination meetings.
• Manage the snagging and defects process to ensure a defect‑free end product.

About You:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience in the successful delivery phase of projects.
• Excellent people management skills.
• Excellent self‑organisation skills and ability to organise others.
• Priority management.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to drive programme.
• High levels of quality standards.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Benefits:

• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits
• Volunteering opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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