Site Supervisor

Northumbrian Water

Lowestoft

On-site

GBP 37,000 - 50,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced maternity pay

Company pension scheme

Digital GP

Employee Assistance Programme

Life assurance

Annual leave

Job summary

Northumbrian Water is seeking a Construction Supervisor to lead on-site activities across significant water network projects. This full-time, permanent role offers training and development to build leadership capabilities in construction, utilities and civil engineering environments.

You will coordinate programmes, manage resources, and ensure safe, compliant delivery with minimal customer disruption while working with experienced colleagues across our network.

Qualifications

Leadership potential and ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
Willingness to develop leadership skills and progress within the organisation.

Responsibilities

Supervise construction activities on the water network projects.
Coordinate work programmes and resources across sites.
Monitor health and safety compliance and ensure high-quality delivery.
Support field teams and contractors to resolve issues and drive improvements.

Skills

Leadership potential

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Job description

About the role

Site Supervisor

Full Time

Permanent

Salary - £43,775 per annum

Location - Hanningfield, Chelmsford

About the Role

Are you ready to take the next step in your construction, utilities or operational career? We’re looking for an ambitious and motivated individual to join our Network Design and Construction team as a Construction Supervisor. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has experience working within construction, utilities, civil engineering or a similar environment and is looking to develop into a leadership role. We will provide you with full training.

As a Construction Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in delivering essential infrastructure projects across our water network, including mains renewals, lead replacement programmes, diversions and new developments. You’ll work alongside experienced colleagues who will support your development, helping you build the technical knowledge, leadership skills and operational experience needed to succeed.

This role offers exposure to a wide range of projects and stakeholders. You’ll learn how to coordinate work programmes, manage resources, oversee health and safety compliance and ensure high-quality delivery of construction activities while minimising disruption to our customers and communities.

Working across the Suffolk area, you’ll support field teams and contractors, helping to monitor progress, resolve issues and drive continuous improvement. We are committed to investing in your development and will provide training, coaching and opportunities to gain further industry knowledge and qualifications.

This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys problem solving, building relationships and making a tangible difference through the successful delivery of infrastructure projects.

About You

We’re looking for someone with a positive attitude, a willingness to learn and the ambition to develop into a confident construction leader. You may already have some experience within construction, utilities, civil engineering or a related operational environment, but equally important is your ability to communicate effectively, work collaboratively and take ownership of your work.

You don’t need to have done this exact role before. We welcome applications from people who can demonstrate leadership potential, whether that’s through previous supervisory responsibilities, mentoring colleagues, coordinating projects or taking the lead on site activities.

You’ll be someone who enjoys working with people, can manage competing priorities and remains calm when faced with challenges. A strong focus on health, safety and customer service is essential, as is a commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Experience of water networks, isolation operations, deep excavations or large plant would be beneficial, but we’ll support the right candidate in developing their knowledge and understanding in these areas. Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who is eager to learn, embraces new challenges and is excited about building a long-term career with us.

A full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

Enhanced maternity pay
Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
Company pension scheme
Digital GP
Award winning wellbeing website
Employee Assistance Programme
Life assurance
Qualification loans
Professional subscription
Buy and sell annual leave
Discounts and cashback offers

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we’re committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our values are:

Results Driven

We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical

We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused

We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative

We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team

We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

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Colleague benefits

We’re the great company we are because of you - our people. As our way of saying thanks, you’ll be eligible to some of our wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.