- Location: Alnwick, Northumberland
- Role: Site Manager - Civils & Groundworks
- Start: Immediate
- Rate: £28ph- £30ph
Are you an experienced Site Manager with a strong background in residential civil engineering and groundworks? We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual to take full responsibility for the ground-up Alnwick, Northumberland.
Key Responsibilities
As the Site Manager for Civils, you will be accountable for all on-site infrastructure works, including:
- Health & Safety: Full responsibility for site safety (CDM 2015 compliance), conducting daily briefings, and ensuring all groundworks operations are executed safely and to the highest standards.
- Programme Management: Planning, monitoring, and driving the civils programme, including setting out, earthworks, drainage (foul and surface water), road construction, and utility trenching.
- Quality & Technical: Overseeing the quality of all civil engineering work, ensuring compliance with specifications, relevant NHBC standards, and local authority agreements (S38, S278, S104).
- Subcontractor Management: Direct management, supervision, and coordination of groundwork, plant, and specialist civil sub-contractors.
- Commercial: Working closely with the Commercial/Quantity Surveying team to manage costs, minimise waste, and ensure timely completion within budget.
- Reporting: Providing accurate and timely progress reports to the Contracts Manager and wider project team.
- Stakeholder Liaison: Acting as the primary point of contact for utility providers, local authority inspectors, and statutory bodies during the civils phase.
About You
- Essential Experience: full civils package on a large-scale residential housing development.
- Deep understanding of groundworks, roads, sewers, deep drainage, and all associated infrastructure for new build housing.
- Qualifications:
- SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme)
- CSCS Card (Black or relevant level)
- First Aid at Work Certificate
- Formal qualification in Civil Engineering/Construction Management is desirable.
- Personal Attributes: Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills. A proactive, hands-on approach is essential to drive the project forward.
If you are interested, please send your CV to Rhianna in the Newcastle office!
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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