Site Manager

Location: Oxford area
Project: Major infrastructure / HS2
Employment: Permanent
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Working arrangement: Predominantly site based, with flexibility required for occasional nights and weekends

We are looking for an experienced Site Manager to support the delivery of a significant structural steel package on a major infrastructure project in the Oxford area.

This is a hands-on site management position combining the coordination of subcontract installation teams with health and safety, quality, reporting and project documentation.

You will act as the day-to-day representative on site, working closely with the Contracts Manager, client, main contractor and subcontract teams to ensure works are delivered safely, correctly and in accordance with programme requirements.

The initial project is expected to run for approximately two years, with the intention for the position to continue onto future projects.

• Manage and coordinate daily structural steel installation activities.
• Supervise subcontract installation and specialist teams.
• Plan daily and shift-based activities in line with the project programme.
• Ensure installation works are completed correctly against drawings and approved documentation.
• Monitor health, safety and environmental compliance across site activities.
• Challenge unsafe practices and ensure appropriate PPE and working procedures are followed.
• Review and support RAMS, method statements and point-of-work risk assessments.
• Deliver and update task briefings.
• Complete daily site reports and progress updates.
• Maintain photographic records of works and completed installations.
• Ensure quality documentation and project records are completed accurately.
• Maintain a clear audit trail of completed works.
• Coordinate materials, equipment and site requirements ahead of installation.
• Liaise regularly with the client, main contractor and subcontractors.
• Identify site issues and work collaboratively to resolve them.
• Provide regular updates to the Contracts Manager.
• Support occasional night, weekend or possession-based working where required.

Ideally, you will have:

• Previous experience as a Site Manager, Site Supervisor or similar.
• Experience within structural steel, steel erection, steel installation, fabrication or a closely related engineering/construction environment.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors and installation teams.
• Strong knowledge of site health and safety.
• Confidence working from drawings and technical documentation.
• Experience completing RAMS, method statements, task briefings or similar site documentation.
• Experience maintaining quality records and reporting completed works.
• Good computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and standard electronic reporting systems.
• Confidence dealing directly with clients, contractors and other site stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently and take ownership of day-to-day site activities.
• Flexibility around working hours where the project programme requires nights or weekends.

Experience within any of the following would be particularly beneficial:

• Structural steel erection and installation.
• HS2.
• Rail infrastructure.
• Major infrastructure projects.
• Highly regulated or compliance-led construction environments.
• Lifting operations.
• Quality assurance and ITPs.
• Temporary works.
• Working with Tier 1 contractors.

You'll need to be comfortable operating in both sides of the role.

On site, you'll need the confidence to manage subcontractors, challenge unsafe working practices and resolve installation issues.

Off the tools, you'll need to be organised and comfortable completing reports, RAMS, quality records, photographic evidence and other project documentation.

This would suit someone who enjoys taking ownership of a site package and wants to be closely involved in the practical delivery of a major engineering project.

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