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To take overall day to day leadership of on site activities on ACT’s larger or more complex construction projects, providing direction and assurance across all site activities. The Senior Site Manager leads and develops the site management team, ensuring all works are planned and delivered safely, diligently and responsibly. They are accountable for achieving programme, quality and commercial targets, maintaining excellent client relationships, and embodying ACT’s company ethos on site.
Requirements
- NVQ Level 6 in Construction or Management equivalent, working towards Level 7, or demonstrable equivalent experience delivering complex projects.
- SMSTS
- First Aid at Work
- PASMA
- Temporary works supervisor
- Competency in use of all Procore Site management tools (See matrix attached)
General
- Site Maintenance: Maintain a safe, clean, orderly, and presentable construction site at all times.
- Inductions: Ensure all visitors and operatives receive appropriate inductions and adhere to site rules.
- Task Delegation: Delegate and oversee weekly deliverables to Site Managers, Foremen and operatives, providing guidance to maintain programme, quality and cost control.
- Site Diary: Maintain an accurate daily site and labour diary on Procore.
- Material Ordering: Order specified materials in line with program and storage requirements.
- Coordination: Manage and coordinate ACT and supply chain works onsite to avoid non-recoverable variations by holding regular Sub Contractor Coordination meetings.
- Timesheets: Ensure timesheets are completed and delivered to HR on time.
- Line Management: Line manage and develop the site management team, setting clear expectations, providing coaching and addressing performance concerns.
- Mentoring: Act as a mentor for less experienced managers, sharing best practice and ensuring consistent application of ACT standards across the site.
- Resource Review: Lead weekly reviews of labour and plant resources against the cost plan with the commercial team, agreeing corrective actions where required.
Programme
- Lookahead Programmes: Lead the creation and management of 6 week lookahead programmes, assuring alignment with the overall project programme and challenging sequence, resourcing and logic where required.
- Critical Path Reporting: Proactively identify and report any potential delays, gains or influences on the critical path, agreeing mitigation measures with the Project Manager and commercial team.
- Work Sequencing: Sequence works and subcontractor tasks across all workfaces to ensure a safe, methodical and quality based process, minimising re-work and disruption.
- Progress Reporting: Report real-time progress for direct and subcontractor works in line with program requirements and compile and issue weekly Site manager Reports.
Communication & Information Management
- Positive Culture: Act as a visible role model of ACT’s values, setting the tone for behaviours and communication on site.
- Collaboration: Work collaboratively with management, operatives, supply chain, consultants, clients, and the community to ensure adherence to company values and standards.
- Documentation: Document and circulate actions from meetings and correspondence and manage CVIs and RFIs using Procore.
- Weekly Reports: Oversee the compilation and circulation of weekly reports to the client’s consultant team, ensuring accuracy and that risks, issues and decisions are clearly communicated.
- Authority Liaison: Organise and record building control/local authority visits and manage plan check report deliverables.
- Client Interface: Act as the primary day to day operational contact for the client and their consultants, managing expectations, resolving issues promptly and protecting the relationship.
- Meeting Leadership: Chair regular coordination, progress and subcontractor meetings, ensuring actions, responsibilities and deadlines are clearly recorded and followed through.
- Design Review: Review issued design information for accuracy and buildability, reporting discrepancies.
- Drawing Approvals: Review and approve drawings on Procore, maintaining accurate records of samples and submittals.
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Quality/Accuracy
- Setting Out: Ensure gridlines, datums, and continual dimensional checks throughout the project.
- Quality Control: Conduct regular quality control checks and execute pre-line/pre-finishes installation checks in line with ACT Quality Management System (QMS).
- Quality Strategy: Set and lead the project quality strategy on site (QMS), ensuring inspection and test plans, benchmarks and mock ups are in place and rigorously followed.
- Issue Resolution: Record and circulate quality/specification issues, ensuring timely resolution. Ensure quality and specification issues are owned and closed out by the appropriate party, with root causes identified to prevent recurrence.
- Sign Off: Undertake final sign off of key work stages and areas prior to client inspection, ensuring works are fully compliant with ACT standards and project specifications.
- Audit Participation: Participate in risk-based audits and inspections, implementing improvements as needed.
Health & Safety
- Policy Implementation: Take overall responsibility for implementing ACT health and safety policies, procedures and processes on site, ensuring full compliance by all site management and supply chain partners.
- Risk Assessments: Ensure risk assessments and method statements are in place and reviewed.
- H&S Management: Manage site H&S folders, record near misses, and implement preventive measures.
- Safety Leadership: Lead by example in all safety matters, challenging unsafe behaviours and stopping works where necessary.
- H&S Reviews: Chair regular H&S review meetings with the project team and H&S Manager, tracking close out of actions and trends.
- Toolbox Talks: Ensure a structured programme of Toolbox Talks is delivered by the management team, and that learning is captured and shared across the project.
- Site Conditions: Minimise traffic, noise, and dust; ensure proper use of protective clothing and equipment.
- Welfare Facilities: Ensure provision for welfare facilities, first aid, and emergency procedures.
- Temporary Works: Identify requirements for temporary works and ensure competent management.
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People Management
- HR Issues: Raise and report any on-site HR issues.
- People Management: Carry out regular 1 to 1s and performance reviews with the site management team, agreeing objectives and development actions.
- Capability & Conduct: Address performance, conduct and attendance issues promptly in line with ACT HR processes, escalating to HR and senior management where necessary.
- Succession & Development: Identify high performers and potential successors within the site team and work with HR and L&D to support their development.
- Performance Reviews: Conduct and circulate performance reviews.
Commercial
- Contract Understanding: Maintain a detailed understanding of the Contract Pricing Document scope of ACT and supply chain works, ensuring the site team delivers within scope and budget.
- Variation Identification: Proactively identify, record and communicate site variations or client requested changes, ensuring commercial opportunities are captured in a timely manner.
- Labour Allocation: Approve and monitor labour allocation and site based procurement in line with budgets and commercial strategies agreed with the QS and PM.
- Material Procurement: Procure materials within allocated budgets.
- Cost Forecasting: Contribute to cost reporting and forecasting by providing accurate site information on progress, risks and opportunities.
Document Control
- Document Control Liaison: Provide oversight of document control operations, ensuring the site team correctly uses Procore and that all drawings, RFIs, CVIs and submittals are current, coordinated and compliant.
Benefits
- 21 Days Holidays ( PLUS three given to be taken during the Christmas shutdown period).
- Length of Service Leave - You will receive one day holiday on top of your entitlement for every year that you have worked, up to five additional days.
- Vitality Healthcare - Private healthcare including, physiotherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, chiropody/podiatry, acupuncture, and homoeopathy.
- Wellhub Membership - Free access to gyms, wellness centres and health apps.
- Strong Culture - Regular events, team building activities and celebrations.
- NEST Pension Scheme via salary sacrifice - ACT contribution of 3% (based on full earnings)
- Professional Development - Opportunities for career advancement and internal promotions.
- Employee Assistance Programme - Confidential support including 24/7 advice, counselling services, and resources for mental health and wellbeing.
- Cycle to Work - Tax-efficient way to save on a new bike and accessories, with monthly payments taken directly from your salary.
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Construction management
Site leadership
Procore
Health and safety management
Programme management
Subcontractor coordination
Quality control
Risk assessment
Budget management
Team development
Mentoring
Temporary works management
Material procurement
Critical path reporting
Client relationship management
Document control
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