Senior Site Manager

Employer: Wates Group
Location: Market Harborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 14 May 2025

The Vacancy
Wates are looking for a Senior Site Manager to join our Construction team in the Market Harborough area focusing on high profile, technically complex projects within our MOJ division.
If you are passionate about the construction industry with proven skills and looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry, then join us and help to create tomorrow together.
This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Senior Site Managers are a valuable part of our business, overseeing project sites to ensure developments are completed on time. Creating budgets, liaising with clients, and supervising teams whilst maintaining quality control procedures and mitigating risks.

As our Senior Site Manager you will:

• Ensure compliance with all safety requirements on site
• Undertake resource management and track works on site to achieve the contract programme, reporting on progress and developing corrective plans to stay on course
• Maintain accurate records of works on site, incorporating any delays to progress or changes to scope and ensuring these are elevated to the Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager expediently
• Manage the training and competency of operatives on site, both internal and external

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including Private Medical, Pension 8% employers' contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression
• Industry leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check (BPSS) as well as Enhanced Level 1 for entry to a live prison which will be done at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment. We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:

• Thriving places - working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.