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National Highways; Warminster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime pay

Out-of-hours allowance

Job summary

National Highways is recruiting a Site Supervisor for the South West region, based at Wylye Depot. The role involves overseeing major maintenance schemes, coordinating contractors, and ensuring quality and safety on site.

The position requires driving with a clean licence and the ability to relocate within commutable distance. You will work a varied schedule, including evenings and weekends, with paid overtime and an out‑of‑hours allowance.

Qualifications

• Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience.
• CSCS Card Holder; SSSTS or SMSTS certificate essential.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations, MCHW, and Chapter 8.

Responsibilities

• Assure completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate concerns to the CAM.
• Ensure works comply with CDM, HSE and Environmental legislation; discharge Principal Contractor duties.
• Provide regular feedback to Project Managers on progress, risks, early warnings and on-site issues.
• Liaise with key supply chain partners and coordinate the delivery programme; carry out buildability reviews.
• Represent National Highways on construction/maintenance sites and escalate concerns as required.

Skills

Highway/structures experience

CDM Regulations

CSCS Card

SSSTS/SMSTS

Independent work

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Job description

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Site Supervisor to join our team in Operations. As a Site Supervisor, you will play a key role in the delivery of major maintenance and minor improvement schemes across the South West region.Reporting directly to the Construction Assurance Manager, you will undertake construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify quality of works undertaken by external contractors.

You'll have the opportunity to work a varied schedule, which may include regular evenings, nights and weekends, and you'll benefit from paid overtime and/or an out‑of‑hours allowance in addition to your base salary for any work undertaken during these times.

As this is a safety‑critical role with regular travel to sites across the region. This role is based from Wylye Depot and you must either live or be able to relocate to within one hour's commutable distance.

Please note thatyou will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

• Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements.
• Ensure that construction works comply with CDM regulations, HSE Legislation, Environmental legislation and Chapter 8 requirements, ensuring that Principal Contractor (PC) duties are properly discharged by the relevant parties.
• Ensuring Project Managers receive regular and timely feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, early warnings, design related issues, and act as the initial point of escalation for any on‑site issues that need to be resolved.
• Acting as liaison between all key supply chain partners and co‑ordinate the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.
• Represent the interests of National Highways on construction / maintenance site(s), assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and elevate any concerns to Construction Assurance Manager or Construction Manager, in line with agreed governance agreement.

About you.

• Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience; experience of working on high-speed Trunk Road/Motorway Networks
• Good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM Regulations
• CSCS Card Holder, SSSTS or SMSTS Certificate is essential.
• Ability to execute tasks independently yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance & support.
• Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word and Outlook

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A‑roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.