Senior Site Manager - Major Works - Drainage

Description

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the role of the Senior Site Manager is to oversee all operations, directing and organising all activities to ensure that the planned work is delivered safely and on time; and monitoring that performance meets recognised standards of productivity, quality and compliance with essential health and safety provisions.

• looking at the risks involved in a particular project and managing these risks;
• All overtime including managers is to be tracked and ensuring they are within compliant hours and that the overtime was warranted.
• Ensuring all Mangers and Operatives have appropriate vehicles, equipment, stores, and skills to perform allocated work.
• To perform monthly fleet and plant checks ensuring fleet, plant and equipment maintenance is carried out and calibrated within the correct timescales.
• making sure the project delivers the expected outcomes and benefits;
• Where an at fault accident, incident or damage takes place, managers are to ensure the recharge process has been followed where applicable and that this has been documented through Cascade.
• Ensure all Timesheets are submitted within the timescales set by payroll. And these are checked and correct at the time of submission. Where necessary Telematics checks are carried out to verify timesheet submission.
• Oversea site setups of over pumping and Tankering locations in accordance with the company’s safe systems of work. Sites are to be maintain until completion, ensuring all equipment is off hired and sales are captured throughout the life of the works.
• Lead and motivate a team to deliver all aspects of planning and operations. This is to be done through monthly face to face manager meetings.
• Ensuring all necessary and appropriate Toolbox Talks are regularly undertaken, Briefings, and other communications to your managers and their operatives.
• Ensure all clients set KPI’s and SLA’s are maintained or exceeded each month.
• making sure the project is running on time and to budget;
• Ensuring the correct levels of resources are kept and maintained for each of your departments, ensuring there is enough ASH cover and support and that managers under your control are manging resource levels.
• Ensure all your management team are performing quality on site assessments checks (x8 Audits per month, minimum 4 onsite audits) and that you have met your monthly target. (2 Audit). Monthly
• Submit accurate records into the sales sheet for works completed each day, ensuring all information is correct, accurate and within budget. Ensuring we are looking to reduce costs were possiable to ensure we are reducing our weekly costs. This is to be tracked weekly and a log to be kept providing data at the end of the financial year should it be required. Where shifts have been lost, we must look at all options available to us to recoup these where possible.
• Ensuring all contract changes for new and existing operatives have been completed and set through to the correct departments.
• motivating the team of people involved in the project;
• Manage all day-to-day HR queries ensuring all updates are added to the HR system, and all HR processes and procedures are followed. Sickness and behaviours are to be monitored throughout the year ensuring that when required individuals are managed fairly through the processes to allow sign off of the end of year Loyalty and attendance bonuses.
• making sure the work is done to the right standard;
• Managing subcontract performance.
• Comply with relevant company HSEQ and welfare policy provisions.
• Weekly audits are to be carried out on operatives and their start times, on site times as well as offsite times. Ensuring operatives are carrying out their full shifts. Any failings to be logged on cascade.
• Ensuring your management team are liaising with customers, clients, local authorities and other interested third parties regarding past, present, and future works.
• dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary;
• Ensuring near miss submissions are being sent through by yourselves and your teams.
• Ensuring all mangers and operatives are complying with the company rules in each of our depots and that your managers are monitoring and dealing with individuals who don’t comply.
• Identify and provide a platform to allow managers and operatives a succession plan within your department.
• Ensuring all managers and operatives driving company vehicles adhere to company policy, where necessary interventions to be carried out to coach or take disciplinary action against offenders that is relevant to the offence committed. Weekly checks of the Samsara safety inbox are to be carried out to ensure your managers are following up through coaching and interventions.
• Maintain own levels of skills and knowledge to do the job effectively, as well ensuring your managers and operatives are fully up to date. And Training records and ID Cards records are kept up to date. – 12 Month Period
• To manage and assess the competencies of all Employees through the competency assessment programme.
• planning what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it;
• Ensuring compliance with relation to the European driving hours standards to ensure Logbooks/Tachograph cards have been signed/downloaded to ensure compliance.
• Perform on call duties in accordance with the on-call rota.
• H&S Reporting – Ensuring when accidents and incident occur that it has been reported to the H&S team immediately, and any assistance with investigations are carried out and fed back correctly.
• To provide sufficient and timely supervision, assessments and coaching to ensure your managers are performing to our sufficient company standards. If standards are not upheld ensuring that coaching and if required disciplinary action has been taken.

Requirements

This position is open to Internal and External candidates. Any internal candidates currently employed within a division of the Lanes Group must complete an Internal Application form and submit to recruitment.

• The manager must have experience in writing and understanding RAMS,
• Must have commercial awareness and understand basic business finance e.g., Capital revenue expenditure, cash-flow, overheads, etc.
• Computer Literate
• Hold recognised supervisory or leadership in management course or equivalent in experience.
• Proven experience in leading a delivery team.
• Skills, proven experience, and natural ability to coach, manage and lead people.
• Understanding health and safety legislation.
• Safety Management training
• Able to drive and have a full current, valid driving licence NVQ Management level 3 or equivalent in experience.
• Possess a clear focus on high quality and control of costs.
• Reliable, tolerant and be able to get on with others.
• Ability to manage a budget.
• Proven experience in managing high output, plain line and/or S&C Constructions sites.
• Must have the skills and confidence to supervise and coordinate site requirements and tasks.
• Must be able to communicate professionally and effectively, particularly to external parties such as the client, their customers, and local authorities.
• Experienced engineering supervisors.
• In depth knowledge of street works regulations.
• IOSH managing safely.
• Ability to lead and motivate people.

Benefits

Free car parking

Company vehicle provided

24 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays

In joining Sapphire Utility Solutions as part of the Lanes Group - the UK’s largest independent provider, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that prioritises the well-being, growth, and safety of our employees. Through continuous training, professional development opportunities, and a supportive environment that values every individual's unique contribution, we empower our team to uphold the highest standards of integrity, collaboration, and inclusivity.

Employee assistance programme

Overtime paid at X1.5 after 50 hours

Salary: £43,290 per annum

Death in service

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance