Senior Site Manager

John Sisk & Son; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Site Manager to lead large-scale projects with a focus on safety and efficiency. This role involves overseeing site operations, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and managing subcontractor relationships. With a commitment to excellence and a supportive work environment, this opportunity offers competitive benefits, including flexible working arrangements and professional development. Join a team that values diversity and fosters a culture of collaboration and growth.

Benefits

Company Car or Car Allowance

26 Days Holiday

Employer Pension

Competitive Mileage Rate

Travel Expenses

Flexible Working

Enhanced Parental Leave

Professional Development

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in construction project management.
• Strong knowledge of industrial relations and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations and ensure compliance with HSEQS protocols.
• Manage relationships with subcontractors and monitor project delivery.

Skills

People Management

Conflict Resolution

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree in Construction

CSCS for Managers

First Aid Certificate

Tools

HSEQS Protocols

Construction Management Software

Job description

Overview

The Senior Site Manager has overall responsibility for a specific site, typically a large-scale project. Is the construction leader on the ground. Manages the overall day to day supervision of the construction site. He/she will monitor the preparation of the site prior to project launch and oversee the safe and efficient operation of the site throughout the construction phase.

John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change.

Responsibilities

• Participates in compiling the initial programme and have a full awareness of weeklytargets

• Plans and oversees the site setup, ensuring that the appropriate facilities are in placeprior to the project launch

• Manages the relationship with the sub-contractors while working onsite

• Takes ownership for ensuring that HSEQS protocols are always adhered to on sites

• Always maintains quality control procedures

• Ensures that the TWR is in place and is up to date

• Monitors onsite energy and waste data

• Is responsible for ensuring an efficient registration system is in place to monitor allindividuals entering and leaving the site

• Flags any issues with the Contract Management/Commercial Teams, which have thepotential to have an impact on the effective delivery of the project – I.e. materials, works schedules, resources, H&S matters or issues relating to cost or delivery schedule

Experience

• Strong People Management experience

• Knowledge of good industrial relations practices

• Ability to deal with conflicting priorities and difficult stakeholders, particularly subcontractors

• Ability to communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally and able to alter style and method to suit audience

• Strong people skills and able to manage a variety of subcontractor supervision
• More than ten years’ experience working across a range of sectoral projects

• Experience of leading others and track record of delivering medium to large scale projects.

Qualifications

• Academic and or a professional industry related qualification

• CSCS for Managers, SMSTS, CDM/PSCS Awareness, BBS, & S5 Q10 internal workshops

• First Aid at work Certificate

• Lifting Supervisor

• Driving Licence

• Degree or Diploma in a Construction related Subject

Additional Information

• Competitive Salary

• Company Car or Car Allowance

• 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)

• Employer pension

• Competitive mileage rate

• Travel expenses

• Flexible and remote working

• Enhanced parental leave

• Professional and Educational development

Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.

Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.

*The full job specification is available on request

At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It’s not all about your technical expertise. Don’t hold back, we’d love to hear from you.