Senior Site Manager – Kent

A Senior Site Manager is immediately required to join a known housebuilder in Kent on a number of developments. The ideal candidate will be based locally or willing to travel there on a daily basis. Experience + Longevity with a residential developer is essential. My client is offering a competitive salary DOE.

These will be beautiful new developments of one, two and three bedroom homes which have been thoughtfully designed to be both practical and flexible. Each finished to a high standard and benefiting from excellent use of light and space, offering you contemporary living in the heart of the countryside.

Purpose of Job: To manage the day-to-day operations on the company’s building sites so that the contract is completed safely, on time and to the required standard, whilst complying with all relevant legislation and accepted industry best practice

Duties and responsibilities:

• Produce, work to and report on a daily programme.
• Manage the works so that they are completed on time and to the standard required and arrange for the project to be signed off.
• Organise the workforce under his direct supervision so that they are fully occupied, working towards clear objectives and to required standards.
• Organise and liaise with sub-contractors with particular reference to meeting their agreed targets/programmes
• In order to maintain the overall programme for the works.
• Identify critical path items, including information, that are required to maintain the works programme, scheduling them, sourcing them, ensuring that the contracts manager is informed of any items that need to be put on the procurement schedule where lead times are known.
• Liaise with the contracts manager to co-ordinate labour requirements including organizing agency labour as and when required.
• Procurement of materials from the buying dept. And checking their delivery on site, notifying suppliers immediately of any discrepancies/damaged items so that they can be replaced with minimal effect on the works programme.
• Hold regular site meetings with sub-contractors and report on progress and performance, and bring to the attention of the contract manager any issues that are or are likely to cause delay to the works programme.
• Identify snagging items throughout the course of the project and arrange for them to be rectified together with all items brought to his attention by the client/architect, co-ordinating the trades through to completion so that the highest standards are maintained and post-contract snagging is kept to a minimum.
• Arrange visits by building control and or nhbc inspectors as and when required throughout the contract and arrange signing off at completion.