JN Bentley
Site Manager - SPA

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Mott MacDonald Bentley Recruitment: Site Manager
Locations of the role include:
- Site based at Grafham to Rede section of SPA pipeline
- Site based, Norfolk
The 330km Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Project by Anglian Water is under construction and will be completed during AMP8. Beyond this, we have a further 260km of water transfer pipelines and associated infrastructure to be delivered in AMP8.
What will you be doing as our new Site Manager?
Responsibilities
Our Site Managers will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Strategic Pipeline Alliance, reporting to the Project Delivery Manager they will be responsible for:
- Management and awareness of all aspects of day-to-day site production for the satisfactory completion of specific elements of the project, including resource management, forward planning, and communication with their teams.
- Management of on-site supervisors, engineers, labor, and MEICA and Civils subcontractors.
- Contribute to work planning - Utilization of Production techniques and planning tools to ensure efficient management of onsite production.
- Management of Health, Safety, Environment, and wellbeing on site. Including the preparation, approval, and delivery of RAMS, SSOW, permits, site inductions and briefings and a thorough understanding of safety, environmental and quality management processes, and regulations.
- Management of Risk and Opportunity – Understand the sites Risk and Opportunities and work with the team to pro-actively mitigate risks and realise opportunities.
- Experience in the supervision and coordination of Temporary Works on site, ideally with an internal or external accreditation.
- Ensuring all operations adhere to both legislative and SPA guidelines for health, safety, environmental and quality procedures and are delivered within budget, on schedule and in accordance with the appropriate standards, specifications and regulatory requirements.
- Understanding and experience of land entry practices.
- Thorough understanding of commercial, contractual and procurement processes, including the NEC suite of contracts to enable effective delivery.
- The enabling phase starts with identification of the preferred solutions and includes design work, surveys, consenting and any early construction work to enabling the main construction phase.
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The key site activities to plan and manage will include:
- Ecology surveys
- Archaeological investigations & trial trenching
- Ground investigations
- Engineering surveys
- Environmental surveys
- Mobilisation and management of temporary enabling phase works compounds
- Mobilisation and handover of temporary construction phase works compounds


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We are looking for engaged and passionate Site Managers who:
- Can demonstrate experience of being part of large-scale infrastructure programmes of work, preferably with experience of working on large diameter pipelines within the water sector.
- Understand the benefits of a production-based approach and how this can deliver differently.
- Are excellent communicators who can passionately share SPA’s vision to both their teams and external stakeholders.
- Work collaboratively with the Engineering & Integration team to help deliver the most holistic solutions.
- Has a can-do attitude and enthusiasm to innovate and get the job done.
Our ambition is to build a more inclusive environment. We are committed to celebrating and promoting diversity.
Here at SPA we are looking for extraordinary people who want to help create a place where everyone can thrive and where people are excited to be part of the team. So, whatever your background and however you identify, please apply if you think this role was made for you.
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