Site Manager

Location

South West England | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

If youre inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Site Manager . As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you'll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. You'll also discover Smart Working. Its our flexible approach to when, where and how you work, and at the heart of a warm and inclusive culture that supports you to be you.

The opportunity is to work on a large complex Defence sector project in the South West

What you'll be doing

Managing vital construction projects for a stable business in a booming industry, you'll:

• Be essential to the success, safety and quality of construction projects
• Control, manage and deliver smaller scale site-based project work or support a Senior Project Manager to manage sections of larger projects
• Manage, motivate and coach a multi-disciplinary team including the integration and monitoring of trade contractors
• Make sure that customer specifications and project objectives are met considering everything from safety and risk to quality and time
• Keep a close eye on budgets, cost control and cost recovery
• Draw up realistic short-term programmes and track progress
• Collaborate with other experts across teams that include project management, commercial, operations, health and safety and external suppliers.

Who we're looking for

An SMSTS-qualified Site Manager with a CSCS Card, you'll:

• Build on your track record of managing site logistics and operational delivery within a construction or related environment
• Communicate safe systems of work and implement improvements
• Work flexibly on complex projects and to strict deadlines
• Use your working knowledge of health and safety legislation to apply H&S systems, coach people to produce H&S documents, and guide others in incident investigation
• Tackle problems head on and go the extra mile to take us to the next level.
• Have experience of managing RC Frame structures, Composite cladding and Office Fit outs

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

In UK Construction Services England & Wales business, our aim is to be the partner of choice; the go-to in our sector, trusted to deliver for our customers. We work across a huge and exciting range of sectors, including aviation, building, civils, defence and energy.

From ground investigations and flood defence to complex roads and bridges; primary schools to world class universities; ground-breaking hospitals to city centre living; the depth of our experience and quality of our projects is something we are proud of.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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