Site Manager

Costain; South Kesteven; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in the UK seeks a Site Manager for the Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance project. This site-based role involves managing teams and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards throughout project delivery. Ideal candidates should possess a strong background in the water industry, excellent management skills, and essential qualifications including a relevant CSCS card. The role offers competitive remuneration and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Site-based role managing Supervisors and delivery teams.
• Knowledge of health, safety, quality, and environmental standards.
• Experience in delivering projects from £200k to £20m.

Responsibilities

• Act as ambassador for SPA Alliance promoting safety and quality.
• Manage site labor and ensure compliance with MS & RA.
• Liaise with Client's Operational staff to meet KPIs.

Skills

Knowledge and Experience in the water industry

Extensive experience in M&E/construction industry

Excellent customer relationship skills

Effective management of sub-contractors

Commercial and Contractual understanding

Education

Degree, NVQ 6 or HND in Engineering/Site Management

Relevant management CSCS card

CSCS Managers Card

Minimum of SMSTS

Health, Safety and Environmental Management (IOSH)

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Job Description

The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water's region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.

This role involves the site management of projects from inception to completion. It will be a site-based role requiring regular communication between other members of the delivery team based in the local office. Working with the Project Delivery Manager (PDM) the Site Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management of Supervisors and delivery teams and sub-contractors on site. The role will require the effective utilisation of time and resources to meet budgets and delivery programmes. The Site Manager will be expected to carry out the implementation and monitoring of health, safety, quality, environmental and performance standards and ensuring all work meets required water industry regulations and AW approved standards.

There are a number of positions which will be site-based and each located at Colchester and North Norfolk

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Responsibilities

• Acts as an ambassador for the SPA Alliance and partner organisation by supporting, promoting and implementing all SPA initiatives for safety, environment, quality and well being.
• Ensure both direct labour and sub contractor MS & RA are completed with these being site and task specific and approved by the Construction Manager ahead of works.
• Completion Alliance development reviews, provide clear, achievable goals to members of the construction teams reporting to the site manager.
• All initiatives are supported and implemented within minimal disruption
• Liaison with the Client's Operational staff to ensure Key Performance Parameters are met or exceeded.
• Support preparation of supplier and/or sub-contractor estimates and quotations.
• Able to deliver schemes in value from £200k up to £20m.
• Input into works information with the commercial teams to ensure project scope is met in full or areas identified as requiring alternative contractor input.
• Take an active role in the transformation of SPA by supporting and promoting new ways of working in construction project delivery and providing measurable evidence to demonstrate this within the core functional areas of safety, well being, quality and environmental areas.
• Compliance CPMS process
• Compliance with BIM procedures including ensuring issues with design are raised.
• Oversee the management of site based Supervisors, Delivery Teams and relevant areas of the supply chain.
• Responsible for delivery of projects in line with tender allowances and agreed programmes of work, actively managing any slippage of programme or costs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Knowledge and Experience in the water industry
• Extensive experience in M&E/construction industry
• Working in Confined Space (C&G) course completed
• Commercial and Contractual understanding & awareness.
• Have knowledge and experience of working to a budget and programme
• Effective management of sub-contractors.
• Excellent customer relationship skills
• Ability to influence customer decision making
• Basic Management training, skills & experience
• Good understanding of legislative and corporate SHEQ / Industry / Legal requirements
• Basic IT abilities including MS programmes

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant management CSCS card
• Degree, NVQ 6 or HND level qualifications Engineering/Site Management Qualifications
• CSCS Managers Card
• Minimum of SMSTS
• Health, Safety and Environmental Management (IOSH or Construction Managers Safety Certificate)
• 3 day First Aid at Work course inc. defibrillator
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Completed a LOLER course
• Certified Fire Marshall

Desirable

• First Aid and MH First Aid (dependent on role)

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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