Senior Site Manager

Bristol, Gloucestershire
Barratt Developments PLC

Within the Construction environment, think about buying materials, managing big projects, ensuring health and safety and customer service. At any given time, you’ll find us working on some circa 400 developments in both towns and rural areas across the UK, and every one poses unique challenges.

We need people who can bring us fresh ideas and imagination on one hand, and the commercial ability to manage people, budgets and costs on the other. It is testament to the professionalism of our construction teams that since 2004, Site Managers have won more NHBC Pride in the Job Awards than any other housebuilder.

Responsible to the Contracts Manager you will manage the construction of a development, including all associated pre and post housebuilding works, ensuring that targets are met regarding health and safety, delivery to build programme quality, customer care, and cost.

You will be expected to:

• Ensure compliance on site at all times to the company health and safety standards and processes, NHBC standards, building regulations, and overall quality standards.
• Coordinate labour and resources on site to deliver the build programme on larger developments, and to proactively schedule in trades to ensure optimum delivery.
• Manage material levels on larger site to ensure the minimum amount of stock, but enough to ensure the site programme is met and all labour is efficiently employed.
• Ensure that all plots are built to the highest standard of quality, complying with the NHBC Standards, Building Regulations, range specifications, and best practice.
• Undertake company directed quality control procedures and inspections at the correct timings, and rectify any defects so as not to incur additional cost, time delays to the programme, or reduction in the final quality.
• Monitor and control the cost of production, and approve payment to contractors and trades where appropriate.
• Initiate and attend plot inspections with the Local Building Inspector or NHBC, taking corrective action to ensure a minimum of RI’s/BRI’s.
• Carry out toolbox talks or similar on-site briefings to influence, gain commitment, and to drive best practice.
• Display a proactive approach to mitigating risk, to build sequencing, and to overall quality on site.
• Liaise proactively with other internal departments, external suppliers and partners to ensure the build programme is achieved.
• Work with sales through regular sales/build meetings to ensure a smooth and controlled delivery of homes for customers.
• Deliver a high standard of site presentation at all times.
• Carry out New Home Tour with the Sales Advisor and customer(s) to give a good demonstration of the home, answering any questions, and rectifying any issues before Legal Completion.
• With the support of the Contracts Manager, ensure that the on-site Construction team is fully resourced and well-directed, with clear guidelines to their own job responsibilities, and are provided with full support in achieving these in terms of communication, training and development, and the organisation of the site’s workload and resources.
• Show a good behavioural example in all aspects of health and safety, organisation, conduct, quality of work, and professionalism.

To be successful in the role, we are looking for:

• Extensive experience of working to an established build programme and managing key priorities on some challenging sites.
• Proven ability to consistently deliver weekly targets through proactive organisation of the labour force, and promoting a team working ethic.
• Excellent communicator and influencer of people to gain commitment and compliance, and to drive delivery.
• Demonstrated good leadership and assertive skills to ensure optimum delivery to the highest quality standards on site.
• Ability to prioritise tasks proactively to anticipate and meet changing business needs.
• Ability to demonstrate a strong problem-solving ethic, and the ability to get to the route cause of a problem.
• A member of the Chartered Institute of Builders and/or qualified to NVQ level 5 in Construction Management, or a time served tradesman with considerable experience of the full range of construction trades.
• In depth knowledge of all aspects of construction and housebuilding, and the relevant legislative requirements e.g. health and safety, NHBC requirements and Building Regulations.
• A thorough knowledge and well-rounded experience of dealing with customers and potential customers in all aspects, such as the giving of information and advice, resolving any customer issues, confirming company procedures etc.

We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high-quality homes for all generations.

As part of working for Barratt, we offer:

• Competitive Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover – Single Cover
• Annual Medical Health Assessment
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and to building a sustainable tomorrow, one house and one community at a time.