Assistant Site Manager

Fortem; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrifice car lease

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Birthday off

Discretionary bonus up to 10%

Private healthcare

Dental care

Cycle to work

Gym discounts

Training on LMS

Job summary

Fortem seeks an Assistant Site Manager to join our Birmingham team, delivering retrofit, construction and external refurbishment programmes within the West Midlands. You will support the Site Manager, manage contractors, ensure safety and quality, and drive customer satisfaction for tenanted properties.

The role requires experience in social housing refurbishment, strong communication, and the ability to work under pressure in a planned works environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction/refurbishment, ideally at Assistant Site Manager level.
• Full driving licence.
• Supervisory or management experience with subcontractors.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Problem solving skills and analytical capability.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Ability to engage people and build strong working relations with trades, colleagues, clients and managers.
• Worked in a planned works environment/site.
• Experience in social housing repairs and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the management and safe delivery of social housing refurbishment works.
• Ensure safe, effective and timely delivery of construction operations.
• Report into the Site Manager and manage all contractors and refurbishment across tenanted properties.
• Ensure works comply with BS7671 and other relevant standards.
• Issuing clear, unambiguous instructions to trades or subcontractors.
• Carry out ad hoc safety inspections on supply chain partners.
• Carry out quality inspections on all works.
• Organise work activity and prioritisation for the team.
• Complete an accident form in the presence of an injury.
• Manage welfare facilities on site.
• Support tenants daily and achieve excellent customer satisfaction.

Skills

Construction/refurbishment experience

Driving licence

Supervisory experience

Communication skills

Problem solving

Work under pressure

People engagement

Planned works experience

Social housing repairs

Job description

Due to rapid growth and continuous success we are delighted to confirm that we are currently seeking an Assistant Site Manager to join our team in Birmingham.

This is a permanent full time position delivering Retrofit, Construction and external refurbishment programmes.

The Project

This will be working within our successful West Midlands Projects division delivering Retrofit and Construction across the Birmingham regions.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

Assistant Site Manager responsibilities include:

• To Assist with the management and safe delivery of the social housing refurbishment works
• Ensure safe, effective and timely delivery of construction operations
• Reporting into the Site Manager you will have responsibility for all contractors and operational refurbishment/construction across tenanted properties
• To ensure all works carried out comply with BS7671 and any other relevant standards.
• To ensure that works instructions issued to trades or subcontractors are clear, unambiguous and represent a full and fair days’ workload, at all times seeking to maximise productivity.
• Carry out Ad Hoc safety inspections on supply chain partners
• Carry out Quality Inspections on all works
• Organise work activity and prioritisation for the team
• Complete an accident form in the presence of an injury
• Managing the Welfare facilities on site
• Supporting tenants on a daily basis and achieving excellent customer satisfaction

Personal Qualities

• Construction/refurbishment experience, ideally at Assistant Site Manager level
• Full driving licence
• Supervisory or Management experience (mainly sub-contractors).
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Problem solving skills, analytical capability
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to engage people and build strong working relations with trades, colleagues, client and managers
• Worked in a planned works environment/site
• Experience in social housing repairs and maintenance

Additional Information

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Option to opt into a salary sacrifice car lease
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off (34 days total)
• Discretionary bonus of up to 10%
• 26 weeks full pay maternity leave
• 8 weeks full pay paternity leave
• Discounted gym memberships at national and local gyms
• Vast directory of training on bespoke in-house Learning Management System
• Private healthcare and dental care
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retail and mobile phone provider discounts

About Us

We are part of the Willmott Dixon group, established in 2002 Fortem provides specialist property solutions tailored to keep homes and buildings running smoothly. Our highly trained teams deliver a range of internal and external repairs as well as high quality voids, planned installations and gas services. Alongside our core functions, we have extensive experience in decarbonisation, specialising in making homes more energy-efficient and helping clients on their journey to become zero carbon.

Our experience, commitment to best practice and exemplary quality, together with a genuine partnered approach, ensures we achieve excellent outcomes for our partners, clients and customers. We have an established track record of improving communities and creating better places for people to work and live.

We are Investors in People - Gold, we believe in equality, diversity and respect for all and encourage applications from all sectors of the community.