Senior Site Manager

North East

Permanent

Salary Dependent on Experience

The Client

Our client is a family-owned Construction business renowned for quality, integrity and innovation in the sector. They are now looking for an experienced Senior Site Manager to join their team due to a number of upcoming projects across the Commercial / Industrial sectors.

The Role

• Understand and comply with the Company’s Management Systems and Policies for Health & Safety, Quality and Environmental.
• Take responsibility for all of the management systems requirements for the duration of the contract period.
• Be responsible and accountable for health and safety on site both in terms of planning and delivery and to provide leadership to the site team and supply chain.
• Take responsibility for the construction programme both in ensuring adherence to it and monitoring and regularly reporting on it. 
• Develop and implement short term and target programmes with input from the supply chain and other members of the site team and ensure adherence to them.
• As and when required, and in conjunction with line management, develop and implement recovery, acceleration and completion programmes and ensure adherence to them.
• Provide assistance to the Design Manager and the Project Quantity Surveyor in order to produce design programmes, information required schedules and procurement programmes respectively. 
• Hold regular meetings with site teams, design teams and supply chain.
• Carry out role of mentor to new/junior members of staff.
• Plan and organise the site facilities and logistics and be accountable for hired plant.
• Co-operate with the local Quality Manager when reviewing compliance with the Quality Management System and action any findings or suggestions for improvement.
• Liaise with the Aftercare Manager and ensure that the project is handed over such that they are only expected to deal with latent defects.

Key Requirements

The successful candidate will hold 5+ years of experience working within Site Management on Commercial and Industrial projects. Relevant qualifications such as SMSTS, CSCS and First Aid are essential.