Site Manager - Social Housing Refurb

Refurbishment

Daniel Owen are proud to be representing a leading social housing contractor based in the London area who are looking for a Site Manager to join their team in Newbury.

They are looking for a candidate with previous social housing refurbishment experience and the responsibilities are but not limited to the following:

• Set up site prior to the commencement of project work
• Plan projects and ensure they meet agreed specifications, budget and timescales
• Oversee building work
• Working with clients and reporting progress, professional staff (such as architects and surveyors) and the public
• Supervising direct labour and contracted staff
• Meeting subcontractors
• Making safety inspections and ensuring construction and site safety
• Checking and preparing site reports, designs and drawings
• Maintaining quality control procedures
• Motivating the workforce
• Problem-solving
• Provide regular project updates to line manager
• Using specialist construction management computer applications
• Carry out regular toolbox talks
• Organising and arranging the procurement of materials and plant
• Proven track record of working on various planned works projects (Externals, Internals, Roofing, Cladding, EWI/IWI etc)
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with the client representatives and customers as appropriate and maintain best practice introducing innovative processes which will add value and drive efficiency.
• To recruit and develop a team including tradesman/supervisory staff.
• Able to price and programme works from drawings, organising labour and materials etc.
• Regularly review service delivery.
• Operational focus - Someone who can manage various processes, can oversee the operational delivery of the project and is very organised.

Key Knowledge:

• Previous Social Housing, Building Contractor and local authority industry knowledge
• Valid SMSTS certificate
• IT and Excel Literate

If this sounds like a role that suits your profile, then feel free to get in touch.