Senior Site Manager - Major Works - Drainage in Preston

Established in 2013, Sapphire Utility Solutions has quickly become the partner of choice for many clients across the UK in our chosen markets. We provide award-winning services to the clean water, wastewater, gas, multi-utilities and the highways sector. We are passionate about working alongside our clients and partners to maintain the utility services essential to modern life throughout the UK.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the role of the Senior Site Manager is to oversee all operations, directing and organising all activities to ensure that the planned work is delivered safely and on time; and monitoring that performance meets recognised standards of productivity, quality and compliance with essential health and safety provisions.

Location: Leyland, Lancashire

Hours: 50 hours per week, 06.30am-16:30pm, Monday to Friday

Salary: £43,290 per annum

Responsibilities – but not limited to:

• Lead and motivate a team to deliver all aspects of planning and operations through monthly face-to-face manager meetings.
• Identify and provide a platform to allow managers and operatives a succession plan within your department.
• Managing subcontract performance.
• Perform on-call duties in accordance with the on-call rota.
• Ensuring all Managers and Operatives have appropriate vehicles, equipment, stores, and skills to perform allocated work.
• Ensuring your management team are liaising with customers, clients, local authorities and other interested third parties regarding past, present, and future works.
• Provide sufficient and timely supervision, assessments and coaching to ensure your managers are performing to company standards.
• Ensure all your management team are performing quality on-site assessments checks (x8 Audits per month, minimum 4 onsite audits) and that you have met your monthly target.
• Ensuring near miss submissions are being sent through by yourselves and your teams.
• H&S Reporting – Ensuring when accidents and incidents occur that it has been reported to the H&S team immediately, and any assistance with investigations are carried out and fed back correctly.
• The manager must have experience in writing and understanding RAMS, planning what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it; looking at the risks involved in a particular project and managing these risks; making sure the work is done to the right standard; motivating the team of people involved in the project; making sure the project is running on time and to budget; dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary; making sure the project delivers the expected outcomes and benefits.
• Comply with relevant company HSEQ and welfare policy provisions.
• Ensuring all necessary and appropriate Toolbox Talks are regularly undertaken, Briefings, and other communications to your managers and their operatives.
• Perform monthly fleet and plant checks ensuring fleet, plant and equipment maintenance is carried out and calibrated within the correct timescales.
• Oversee site setups of over pumping and Tankering locations in accordance with the company’s safe systems of work.
• Maintain own levels of skills and knowledge to do the job effectively, as well ensuring your managers and operatives are fully up to date.
• Ensure all clients set KPI’s and SLA’s are maintained or exceeded each month.
• Manage all day-to-day HR queries ensuring all updates are added to the HR system, and all HR processes and procedures are followed.
• Ensuring all contract changes for new and existing operatives have been completed and set through to the correct departments.
• Ensure all Timesheets are submitted within the timescales set by payroll and checked for accuracy at the time of submission.
• Weekly audits are to be carried out on operatives and their start times, on-site times as well as offsite times.
• Ensuring all managers and operatives are complying with the company rules in each of our depots.
• Submit accurate records into the sales sheet for works completed each day, ensuring all information is correct, accurate and within budget.
• Ensuring the correct levels of resources are kept and maintained for each of your departments.
• Ensuring all managers and operatives driving company vehicles adhere to company policy.
• Ensuring compliance with relation to the European driving hours standards.
• To manage and assess the competencies of all Employees through the competency assessment programme.
• As part of your role phone calls outside of normal working hours are to be expected and responded to professionally and in a timely manner.

Experience, skills and qualifications required for the role:

• Able to drive and have a full current, valid driving licence.
• NVQ Management level 3 or equivalent in experience.
• Ability to manage a budget.
• Ability to lead and motivate people.
• Computer Literate.
• Must have commercial awareness and understand basic business finance e.g., Capital revenue expenditure, cash-flow, overheads, etc.
• Must be able to communicate professionally and effectively, particularly to external parties such as the client, their customers, and local authorities.
• Proven experience in leading a delivery team.
• Proven experience in managing high output, plain line and/or S&C Constructions sites.
• Experienced engineering supervisors.
• Possess a clear focus on high quality and control of costs.
• A desire to solve problems, resolve conflict, arbitrate, and negotiate and make sound judgements and decisions.
• Skills, proven experience, and natural ability to coach, manage and lead people.
• Reliable, tolerant and able to get on with others.
• Should be well presented and professional.
• Safety Management training.
• Understanding health and safety legislation.
• In-depth knowledge of street works regulations.
• Hold recognised supervisory or leadership in management course or equivalent in experience.
• IOSH managing safely.

What you will get in return:

In joining Sapphire Utility Solutions as part of the Lanes Group - the UK’s largest independent provider, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that prioritises the well-being, growth, and safety of our employees. Through continuous training, professional development opportunities, and a supportive environment that values every individual's unique contribution, we empower our team to uphold the highest standards of integrity, collaboration, and inclusivity.

What we offer:

• 24 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Overtime paid at X1.5 after 50 hours
• Death in service
• Employee assistance programme
• Free car parking
• Company vehicle provided

This position is open to Internal and External candidates. Any internal candidates currently employed within a division of the Lanes Group must complete an Internal Application form and submit to recruitment.

The Lanes Group plc comprises a range of established service providers subsidiaries, which complement the specialist service of Lanes, by both work type and geography. Increasing our overall capability, assets and offering to our customers.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from under-represented members of the community. Strictly no agencies please.