Site Manager (Sites within the North West and Nationwide)

You will be responsible for preparing sites prior to the commencement of construction work, to set up the site office and welfare facilities, fencing and pedestrian routes, to form a TMP and update as required, to plan the project and ensure that they meet health and safety regulations, agreed specifications, budgets and timescales. To oversee all work whilst maintaining our high quality, environmental and health and safety standards. You will also need to communicate with the internal team, along with clients, architects and engineers.

Responsibilities include:
• Checking drawings and designs, highlighting inconsistences to your line manager
• Checking and registering materials and plant deliveries for compliance quality and quantity
• Checking and recording attendance and timekeeping of subcontractors and operatives
• Production of RAMS, Inspection Test Plans and management/implementation and completion of these (Ensuring the client is kept fully updated)
• Liaising with clients and reporting progress, quality, environmental and health and safety matters, also professional staff (such as the main contractor, architects, engineers and surveyors) also from time to time liaising and dealing with the public
• Attending internal and site meetings maintaining a professional manner
• Able to read drawings, work to drawings, and convey information on drawings to others
• Able to understand and work to programmes, also able to produce short term site based programmess themselves
• Calling off materials, ordering sundie items and maintaining running totals records
• Supervising subcontract trades, general labour to ensure the highest quality, health and safety are met, and compliance to their order requirements
• Set up and input to subcontractor meetings be it pre-start or progress meeting
• Carry out formal safety inspections ensuring construction and site safety is of the highest standard
• Preparing site reports, inspections and test plans, ensuring these are kept up to date
• Maintaining our quality control procedures
• Utilizing and maintaining all company systems, procedures, forms and templates and policies
• Advising your line manager and commercial team of any changes, delays or the request of additional works or variances to the works
• Completion of site health and safety, quality and environmental inspections and all the job-related paperwork
• Read, understand, convey and build to only approved drawings and specifications

Previous Experience in any of the following would be an advantage:
Steelwork
Cladding
Groundworks
Masonry
Joinery
Finishing Trades

Your skills:
• Knowledge of construction techniques, specifications and details
• Previous Site Management experience
• Good communication skills and able to deal with clients, subcontractors and the internal team
• Problem solving skills and accountability for decisions made
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to motivate themselves and others
• Team working skills, with the ability to effectively delegate
• Well organized and thorough, with good timekeeping skills
• Able to work on own initiative
• Be able to run a safe site ensuring the highest quality (with support from a visiting Line Manager)
• Be Computer literate (excel, word, outlook)
• Have a good understanding of current Building Regulations, Health, Safety & Environmental legislation.

Qualifications – essential:
SMSTS CSCS Managers card
First aid training Full UK Driving license + own transport

Qualifications that are advantageous:

Scaffold inspection IPAF
Asbestos awareness PASMA
Fire Marshal Clean water card


Although the company is based in Manchester, there will be a requirement to work away during the week on occasions, where accommodation and subsidence will be paid in addition to a staying away allowance. Current projects include sites in South Wales and London.

Please contact Mark Warrington on 0161 8293964 to discuss further.