Site Supervisor

AmcoGiffen; Theale; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent role

25 days holiday

Volunteer days

Pension plan

Life insurance

Health cash plan

Training & progression

Supportive culture

Employee forums

Job summary

AmcoGiffen is seeking an experienced Site Supervisor for a Wales & Western Route project, covering Reading area to Newport. The role involves day‑to‑day supervision of civils and telecoms works in live rail environments, ensuring safety, quality and on‑time delivery across the route.

You will coordinate labour and plant, liaise with project management, and uphold the highest standards of safety and programme compliance while supporting continuous improvement and professional development within

Qualifications

• PTS certification requirement.
• Proven experience in a rail site supervisor/works supervisor role.
• Experience delivering lineside civils, telecoms or rail infrastructure works.
• SSSTS or SMSTS accreditation.
• CSCS card holder.
• Full UK Driving Licence required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Health, Safety and Welfare of all site personnel and subcontractors.
• Supervise and coordinate site activities across civils and telecoms works.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, standards, contract requirements and project plans.
• Lead and motivate site teams to maximise productivity and stay on programme.
• Deliver works to programme and support cost control.
• Maintain accurate site records and escalate issues as needed.

Skills

PTS

Rail Site Supervisor

SSSTS

SMSTS

CSCS

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

Requirements

• Civils background (ducting, drainage, structures, general civils)

Site Supervisor (Rail Civils & Telecoms)

Location:

Southern Region – Wales & Western Route (Reading area, Slough to Newport)

Sector:

Rail ¦ Lineside Civils & Telecoms

In Return

• Permanent, weekly paid position with competitive rates of pay
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 volunteer days per year
• Company pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Health Cash Plan & employee rewards
• Ongoing training and clear progression opportunities
• Inclusive, supportive and safety‑focused working culture
• Employee forums – your voice matters

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Site Supervisor to support the delivery of Project Reach across the Wales & Western railway route from Slough to Newport.

Project Reach delivers essential lineside civils, telecoms infrastructure and associated rail works, including fibre optic cable installation, troughing routes, and supporting civil engineering activities. The role is site‑based with regular travel across the route and plays a critical part in ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently and right first time.

Business Unit & Project Environment

You will join a fast‑paced rail delivery team working within long‑term frameworks and capital delivery programmes. Project Reach includes:

• Fibre optic and telecoms cable installation
• Trough routes and lineside civils
• Minor civils and enabling works
• Drainage, ducting and earthworks
• Route‑wide infrastructure upgrades

Works are delivered in live rail environments, requiring strong leadership, robust safety behaviours, and effective coordination with project and site management teams.

The Role – Site Supervisor

As Site Supervisor, you will be responsible for day‑to‑day supervision of site teams, ensuring works are delivered safely, to programme, within budget, and in full compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

You will support the Project Manager by maintaining control on site, coordinating labour and plant, and ensuring all works align with approved documentation and project standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring the Health, Safety and Welfare of all employees and subcontractors on site
• Implementing and promoting company, client, and project‑specific H&S and environmental initiatives
• Supervising and coordinating site activities across civils and telecoms works
• Ensuring compliance with:
  • Legislation and industry standards
  • Contract requirements and specifications
  • H&S, Quality and Environmental Plans
  • Approved WPPs, Task Briefings and construction drawings
• Leading, motivating and managing site teams to maximise productivity
• Delivering works to programme and supporting cost control
• Monitoring progress and maintaining accurate site records (site diaries, allocation sheets, plant and delivery records)
• Escalating programme, safety, quality or resource issues to the Project Manager
• Ensuring quality targets are met and works are completed right first time
• Identifying training and competence needs within the site team
• Actively supporting continuous improvement and best practice across Project Reach

Requirements

Essential

• PTS
• Proven experience in a rail Site Supervisor / Works Supervisor role
• Experience delivering lineside civils, telecoms or rail infrastructure works
• SSSTS or SMSTS
• CSCS
• Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable

• COSS competence
• Telecoms or fibre installation experience
• Ideally cable pull and trough installation experience
• Civils background (ducting, drainage, structures, general civils)
• Experience working on Network Rail projects / infrastructure maintenance

Why Join?

This is a high‑profile, route‑wide programme delivering critical telecoms and civils infrastructure that supports the future of the UK railway. As Site Supervisor, you’ll play a key role on a complex, safety‑critical project with real opportunities to develop your career within rail project delivery.

The Company

Why AmcoGiffen?

You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen

We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing

Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.