Site Manager

Salary: £312 per day

Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with over 40 years of experience working UK wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. We’re still growing and expanding, so we’re now looking for an experienced Site Manager to further complement our Northern regional team. 

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established family-owned civil engineering and infrastructure company at a time when our business development plans are coming to fruition. In this role, you’ll be joining a team that’s working on various civils and water projects in towns and rural areas anywhere from the Midlands area to the North-East coast of England. In this role, you’ll face new challenges whether that involves improving existing infrastructure or building new ones as each one brings its exciting challenges.

In this varied role, we need an experienced site manager, who can manage a team of engineers, deliver waste management plans and combine production and management skills to ensure construction programmes are running to schedule, whilst ensuring we meet our health and safety commitments and deliver an excellent standard of customer service. In addition, you’ll be responsible for the achievement of the project’s quality and cost targets.

Key Responsibilities:

Site Management

• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of various projects in the Civils and Water sectors
• Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
• When required, lead a teams of Sub Agents, Engineers and Foreman to deliver the work safely without environmental incidents, and to the specified quality.
• Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, ITP’s as well as Waste Management Plans, when specified, in line with Company procedures
• Ensure the commercial performance of the contract is maximised
• Produce and manage the project construction programme as well as producing 2 weeks look ahead
• Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete the tasks

Client interface

• Undertake an ambassadorial role representing the business to customers, public and official bodies
• Deliver end product to customer requirements and satisfaction

Cost control

• Populate and manage the Barhale cost plan for the project
• Maximise project value
• Ensure detailed site diaries/records are completed
• Maintain commercial tension to drive out cost and challenge the status quo
• Endeavour to spot and highlight value engineering opportunities

Reporting

• Produce good quality, accurate monthly reports for the Client and internally
• Chair weekly site meetings in line with Company procedures

Person Specification:

The successful candidate will need considerable experience in Civil and Water sectors as well as an appreciation of Process Engineering, and likely to meet all of the following criteria;

Essential

• Considerable experience in Civil Engineering/ Water and Utilities as a Site Agent for a contractor, delivering projects in a highly regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of contract conditions, CDM regulations, Design Management, Programme and Risk Management and cost control including forecasting, actual cost and value reporting
• Degree/HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent (Desirable)
• Good knowledge of specifications and testing regime relevant to general civil engineering
• Knowledge of JCT and NEC forms of contract
• CSCS (Site Manager)
• SMSTS or IOSH Managing Safely
• NRSWA Supervisor
• Lift Appointed Person
• Knowledge of Primavera P6 software
• Excellent communication, people and team management skills
• Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to conclusion
• Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and lead the team to ensure the culture is in line with our Company values
• Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and motivate and lead the team in line with the Company culture, ensuring high standards of compliance

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are determined that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, pregnancy or maternity, gender re-assignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, age, race or disability. All information will remain confidential to Barhale and will be handled in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.