Vistry Group PLC
Site Manager
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Site Manager – NewBuild Vistry (SE Midlands/Leicester)
Role Overview
We have a critical opportunity for a Site Manager to join Vistry South East Midlands, supporting our project in Earl Shilton, Leicester.
In a Nutshell
As Site Manager, you’ll:
- Oversee day-to-day construction operations, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Manage teams while coordinating resources, enforcing health & safety, and liaising with contractors, suppliers, and customers.
- Foster collaboration and enable flexible working (e.g., hybrid options to be negotiated during interview).
Key Responsibilities
(Excerpt expanded below under “More About the Role”)
- On-site compliance monitoring: Adherence to timelines, budgets, NHBC standards, and lawful building regulations.
- Risk management: Proactively addressing delays, safety breaches, or quality issues.
- Team leadership: Staff training, performance management, and fostering a safe and engaged work environment.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Weekly meetings with site sales teams, procurement planning (with Surveying/Buying teams), and third-party inductions.
- Documentation: Updating records for inspections, permits, and project closeout.
- Cultural stewardship: Living our core values (Integrity, Caring, Quality).
About the Company – Your Team
Our Vision: Making Vistry
- Beyond housing, we build sustainable communities—acknowledged by UKGBC membership and a 5★ HBF Customer Satisfaction rating.
- Proud legacy brands: Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, Countryside Homes + Vistry Works (construction operations).
Cultural Values
| Integrity | Caring | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Ethical behaviour | Inclusive leadership | Excellence in every project |
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Recognitions:
- Top UK housebuilder (by customer satisfaction).
- Award-winning employer:
- Top Employer Global 2023
- Global Top Inspiring Workplaces
- Best for Talent Attraction & Outreach
Benefits
A competitive package tailored to support the whole employee:
- Compensation
- Base: Competitive market salary
- Variable: Annual bonus scheme
- Mobility
- Company car (or allowance) + salary-sacrifice option
- Nightshift/annexional travel allowance
- Leave & Development
- 33–39 days annual leave (with service); 2 voluntary days per year
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity/paternity/adoption).
- HR-assisted performance appraisals + career growth mentorship.
- Wellbeing
- Private medical insurance (employee contribution)
- 4× salary life assurance
- ‘Financial Wellbeing’ portal: Access to pensions, share schemes, and rewards.
- Community
- Funded support for "harassment-free" workplace culture (anchored in policies/attitude).
What We’re Looking for – Key Requirements
Proven experience in the following areas is critical:
- Direct path in new-build housing management (at least X years activating permits, project delivery).
- Health & Safety expertise: Ability to enforce policies, conduct inductions, and sign off without regulatory breaches.
- Public Accounts Provenance: Psychometric/neurodiversity aligned to sensitive sales projects (refer #LI-KM1 in resume application).
- Analytical Leadership
- Team performance metrics: mentoring and mentoring further education, effectively resolving disciplinary items systematically.
- It enables assessment of proficiency in MS Office, emails, stakeholder communication, and agile problem-solving environments.
- A strong ability to build alignment with headcount expectation across 5 career phases.
Team Critical Skills Demand Breakdown:
- Business Acumen: Balancing COVID, inflation, and regulatory changes annually (budgeting minimize impact).
- Potential to develop within a vertical/importance sensory analysis-minded visionary framework (Transform Our Own Business Idea).
- Perhaps bridge innovative project approval strategies with illustrated client-facing matchmaking ability.
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Soft Skills
Eric never got the call, but they hired someone who: ✔ Prioritizes detail-driven work in reports, subcontractor appeals, or compliance documents. ✔ Leverages positive reinforcement to outperform targeted handover cells. ✔ Leads as a servant manager—incorporating environmental dozens-work during punches and evenings.
Will you?
More About the Role
A longer-term mandate (typically 2–3 years) embedding 是说Vistry, delivering projects from permitting through completion with post-sale standards.
Key Accountabilities in Detail
- On-site oversight
- Conduct fortnightly security audits for zonings and quality assurance (materials, finishing).
- Legal & Compliance
- Oversee all permit applications, inspections, and post-issue liabilities.
- Document threats (e.g., neighbourhood objections) and deploy specialists.
- Performance culture
- Weekly PM status report pulling data + agenda for team leadership sessions.
- Sales Alignment
- Foster clarity between external teams and tangible client ownership alignment decisions.
- Supporting training standards
- New staffTales’ to simulate scenarios for crews then verify must-read agency stories.
-- No fluff. Only the buy stage will truly know if set monetization returns are tax-efficient. This role lives it daily.
Agility Constraints
Sunlight visibility’s criteria are subject to PG Cellar Environmental Monitoring Zone. Bag-filter while maintaining expectancies of maintaining prior dates’ adherence decrees.
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