Site Manager

Bouygues Construction Group; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

2 paid volunteering days a year

Pension scheme

Life insurance

Private medical insurance

Generous share scheme

BY Extra – lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Bouygues UK is seeking a Site Manager (Frame/Structures) to lead the frame works on a £270M student accommodation project in Exeter. You will oversee delivery within the programme, manage budgets, and coordinate with sub-contractors and trades to ensure safe, high-quality construction.

You will drive progress meetings, liaise with the client, and champion health and safety, quality controls, and lessons learned across the site.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering projects successfully.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
• Strong self-organisation and ability to organise others.
• High attention to detail with focus on quality and safety.
• Ability to drive programme and manage multiple tasks.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to drive program.
• High levels of quality standards.
• Attention to H&S matters.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Oversee frame works and structures; manage timeframes and budgets.
• Ensure production aligns with programme with commercial awareness and quality controls.
• Lead package delivery; coordinate with trades and sub-contractors.
• Work with Site Engineer for checks; support planner and subcontractors.
• Lead weekly progress meetings; manage defects and snagging processes.
• Liaise with client and agents; ensure safety compliance on site.
• Manage costs and support monthly valuations; analyse variations.
• Lead weekly progress meetings and produce the timeline of works and action points.
• Subcontractor management to ensure on-time delivery and compliance.
• Liaise with Client and agents; review ongoing works to identify defects.

Skills

Site management

Leadership

Communication

People management

Self-organisation

Priority management

Attention to detail

Program management

Quality standards

Health & Safety

Multi-tasking

Project delivery

Job description

Site Manager Job Alerts Link Job Description Site Manager Job Location City: Exeter Country/Region: United Kingdom Contract Type: Permanent Pole: BATIMENT INTERNATIONAL (AP002) Full/Part Time: Full Time Remote/Onsite: On-site/Office based Travel Requirements: Occasional travel Requisition ID: 4607 Information at a Glance

Bouygues UK is a leading construction and property development company in the United Kingdom. It is part of Bouygues Construction which employs 35,600 people around the world, all driven by the greatest and most exciting responsibility of all – building for life.

Bouygues UKhas a fantastic opportunity available for aSite Manager (Frame/Structures)to work on an exciting project inExeter.

The project is a large scale (~£270M) and long term (3-year duration) student accommodation scheme, comprising of 6 new-build blocks and a refurbishment of an existing block.

We are happy to hear from experienced Site Managers and Assistant Site Managers who are interested in working on the project.

Job Purpose and Scope:

• Site Manager responsible for the frame works and structures aspect of the project. Oversees project timeframes and budgets, ensuring successful delivery of the project, highlighting any risks, challenges and mitigations.
• To ensure effective and efficient production within the project programme, with a key focus around commercial awareness, robust quality controls with Health and Safety paramount to the project’s success.

Accountabilities and key tasks:

• To be responsible for the frame works 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.

About You:

• 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

Why Bouygues

Our teams deploy technically innovative solutions for a diverse range of challenging projects throughout the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Day in day out our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture our values reflect how we operate withRespect, Commitment, Pioneering, Sharing.

We offer competitive basic salaries coupled with generous company benefits including:

• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Generous share scheme
• BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits

Bouygues UKis part of theBouygues Group, a diverse global business which operates in the construction, engineering, energy, media and telecommunications markets. With annual sales of over€56,900 billion (December 2025)and operates in 80 countries, the financial strength of our group is a key differentiator in these challenging economic times.

Be Yourself!

Here atBouygues Groupwe value the creativity and innovation that our diverse workforce brings, encouraging people from all backgrounds, particularly those from under represented communities to apply. By joining us, you will be inspired to bring your full self to the workplace, speak up and share your unique ideas. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.