Site Manager - Structural

Randstad CPE; Arnold; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction and engineering recruitment agency is seeking a Structural Site Manager in the Nottingham/East Midlands area. This role involves leading structural assessments and remediation for social housing projects, ensuring tenant safety during repairs and maintaining documentation. The ideal candidate has a Civil Engineering degree, relevant safety certifications, and experience with both traditional and non-traditional building methods. A commitment to diversity in hiring is emphasized.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineer or Site Manager focused on structural defects.
• Strong knowledge of traditional and non-traditional building methods.
• Experience in liaising sensitively with residents.

Responsibilities

• Lead structural authority responsible for assessing structural soundness.
• Develop and oversee implementation of remediation strategies.
• Manage structural repair works within occupied properties.

Skills

Structural expertise

Experience in managing works in occupied properties

Technical knowledge of building methods

Strong reporting and documentation skills

Education

Civil Engineering Degree or equivalent

High-level safety certification (e.g., SMSTS, CSCS Black Card)

Job description

Structural Site Manager: Occupied Social Housing & Voids Assurance

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically adept Structural Site Manager or Senior Structural Engineer to lead the structural assessment, remediation, and assurance program across a major social housing regeneration scheme in the Nottingham/East Midlands area. This is a critical assurance role focusing on the integrity of existing properties.

The Role

You will be the lead structural authority on site, responsible for surveying, assessing, and assuring the structural soundness of existing housing stock – both vacant (voids) and occupied residential properties.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Structural Assessment & Surveying: Conducting non‑intrusive and intrusive surveys to identify and assess structural defects, potential failures, or signs of movement (e.g., subsidence, lintel failure, wall tie corrosion) in existing buildings.
• Remedial Strategy: Developing, specifying, and overseeing the implementation of structural remediation works (e.g., crack repairs, underpinning, foundation stabilization, concrete repairs, temporary propping).
• Live Environment Management: Managing structural repair works within occupied properties, ensuring tenant safety, coordinating access, and minimizing disruption.
• Void Assurance: Signing off the structural integrity of void properties before they are released for refurbishment or re‑tenanting.
• Technical Liaison: Serving as the key technical link between the site team, structural engineers, conservation officers (where applicable), and local authority Building Control regarding all structural defects and repair methodologies.
• Documentation & Reporting: Creating detailed reports on structural condition, specifying repair scopes, and managing all associated QA/QC documentation for assurance and warranty purposes.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Structural Expertise: Proven experience as a Senior Engineer or Site Manager focused on the assessment, investigation, and remediation of structural defects in existing residential buildings.
• Existing Building Focus: Strong technical knowledge of traditional and non‑traditional building methods common in existing social housing stock (e.g., brickwork, masonry, timber floors/roofs).
• Qualifications: Must hold a relevant Civil Engineering Degree (or equivalent) and high‑level safety certification (e.g., SMSTS, CSCS Black Card).
• Live Environment Experience: Essential experience in managing works within occupied residential homes and liaising sensitively with residents.
• Local Presence: Based locally in the Nottingham/East Midlands area and seeking a permanent role within daily commute.

To Apply: Please send your CV, clearly detailing your experience in structural investigation, repair, and assurance of existing residential properties.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.