Interiors Senior Site Manager — Student Housing

BOUYGUES UK; Exeter; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Private medical insurance

BY Extra - lifestyle benefits

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Bouygues UK is recruiting a Senior Site Manager (Internals) for a major Exeter student accommodation project. You will oversee internal trades, drive programme delivery, and manage costs and risks with a robust HSE approach.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive delivery experience, and a proven ability to coordinate with design and construction teams on a multi-block scheme. Externals handled by others, focus on internal packages and coordination.

Qualifications

• 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 program.
• High levels of quality standards.
• Attention to H&S matters.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the internal trades packages 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 / 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 of ongoing works with a view to highlight potential defects.
• Advising production teams on ‘lessons learnt’.
• Attend daily ‘Start Up Safety Meetings’ with the sub-contractors.
• Attend / lead daily Black Hat / Coordination meetings.
• Manage the snagging/defects process to ensure a defect free end product.

Skills

Communication

Delivery experience

People management

Organisational skills

Priority management

Attention to detail

Programme management

Quality standards

Health & Safety

Multitasking

Job description

Bouygues UK is recruiting a Senior Site Manager (Internals) for a major Exeter student accommodation project. You will oversee internal trades, drive programme delivery, and manage costs and risks with a robust HSE approach.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive delivery experience, and a proven ability to coordinate with design and construction teams on a multi-block scheme. Externals handled by others, focus on internal packages and coordination.