Site Supervisor

National Highways; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime pay

Out-of-hours allowance

Travel to multiple sites

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Site Supervisor to oversee major maintenance and minor improvement schemes across the East region. You will conduct construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify contractor works meet required standards.

The role involves travel to sites, possible evening/night shifts, and paid overtime or out-of-hours allowances in addition to base salary. A valid CSCS/SMS/SSSTS credential and ability to drive are required.

Qualifications

• Proven highway/structures and maintenance experience on trunk road/motorway networks.
• Good understanding of DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM regulations.
• CSCS Card holder with SSSTS or SMSTS certification must have.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with guidance.
• Proficient in MS Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Assure completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate to CAM as needed.
• Ensure works comply with CDM, HSE, Environmental legislation and Chapter 8 duties.
• Provide regular feedback on scheme progress, risks, and design-related issues.
• Coordinate delivery programme with key supply chain partners and conduct buildability reviews.
• Represent National Highways on site, monitor supplier performance and resolve on-site issues.

Skills

Highway/structures experience

CDM Regulations

Driving license

MS Office (Excel/Word/Outlook)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Site Supervisor to join our team in Operations. As a Site Supervisor, you will play a key role in the delivery of major maintenance and minor improvement schemes across the East region. Reporting directly to the Construction Assurance Manager, you will undertake construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify quality of works undertaken by external contractors.

You’ll have the opportunity to work a varied schedule, which may include regular evenings, nights and weekends, and you’ll benefit from paid overtime and/or an out of hours allowance in addition to your base salary for any work undertaken during these times.

As this is a safety-critical role with regular travel to sites across the region, you must either live or be able to relocate to within one hour's commutable distance of Bedford, Cambridge or Ipswich.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

• Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escape any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements.


• Ensure that construction works comply with CDM regulations, HSE Legislation, Environmental legislation and Chapter 8 requirements, ensuring that Principal Contractor (PC) duties are properly discharged by the relevant parties.


• Ensuring Project Managers receive regular and timely feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, early warnings, design related issues, and act as the initial point of escalation for any on-site issues that need to be resolved.


• Acting as liaison between all key supply chain partners and co-ordinate the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.


• Represent the interests of National Highways on construction / maintenance site(s), assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and escape any concerns to Construction Assurance Manager or Construction Manager, in line with agreed governance agreement.

About you.

• Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience; experience of working on high-speed Trunk Road/Motorway Networks


• Good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM Regulations


• CSCS Card Holder, SSSTS or SMSTS Certificate is essential.


• Ability to execute tasks independently yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance & support.


• Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word and Outlook

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.