Senior Site Manager

Willmott Dixon; Rugby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Willmott Dixon is seeking a Senior Site Manager for a traditional residential build in Rugby, West Midlands. The successful candidate will lead project delivery, ensuring quality and safety standards while managing teams and community relations. This role offers a competitive package with substantial benefits, including an enhanced pension and private medical scheme.

Benefits

Enhanced pension scheme

Full private medical insurance

Life assurance

Incentive bonus

Car scheme for sustainable transportation

Qualifications

• Proven track record of successful project delivery.
• Experienced in managing teams and supply chains.
• Ability to interpret drawings and technical specifications.

Responsibilities

• Manage project delivery ensuring quality, budget, and safety.
• Establish quality standards on site.
• Produce project programmes and control operations.

Skills

Project management

Team management

Economic project execution

Health and safety management

Community relations management

Education

Current CSCS card

SMSTS certificate

First Aid at work certificate

Working towards MCIOB

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Project

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Willmott Dixon Construction are recruiting for an experienced Senior Site Manager to join our team in the West Midlands, with the first project being a traditional residential build based in Rugby.

Reporting to the Operations/Construction Manager, the successful candidate will manage the delivery of projects safely, on time, within budget and to the highest quality.

The ideal candidate will have previous proven experience of working on traditional residential projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish standards of quality on site and ensure delivery of a quality build in accordance with the project specifications and project requirements.
• Adopt the principles of the Considerate Constructor’s Scheme and manage community relations. Ensure appropriate site image is maintained to encourage repeat business.
• Undertake the works in the most economic manner to eliminate waste and avoid non recoverable costs and preliminaries losses. Monitor and work to agreed preliminaries budget.
• Produce and develop project programmes and control operations to achieve delivery of the project on time. Organise the works and supply chain to provide the right working environment to avoid disruption between trades.
• Understand the client priorities and adopt a professional and considerate approach to maintain good working relations.
• Maintain the highest standards of health, safety and environmental management.
• Manage project handover and ensure defect / snag free completion.
• Support the strategy for the closure of defects during defects period and obtain certificate of Making Good Defects within targets set.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

• A proven track record of successful delivery of projects in a similar role.
• Proven experience in managing teams including the supply chain, direct employees and consultants.
• A current CSCS card and SMSTS certificate.
• Valid Driving Licence
• First Aid at work certificate
• Ability to accurately interpret programmes, drawings and technical specifications
• Management of the supply chain, direct employees and consultants
• Experienced in use of Microsoft programmes; ie Excel, Word, Outlook and Project.
• Working towards MCIOB

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace.

Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full / heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon’s purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Willmott Dixon was awarded No.1 in the Best "Big" Companies (2022) to work for and the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2022 & 2024, and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King’s Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.