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About the Role

Manage the day-to-day construction and coordination activities on site, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with programme, quality, and client requirements. Support the Senior Site Manager and Project Manager by maintaining strong site control, accurate records, and effective coordination with subcontractors, designers, and Thames Water stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day site activities, subcontractors, operatives, deliveries, plant, permits, welfare, and site logistics.
• Maintain and update short-term site programmes, including 2-week and 6-week lookaheads.
• Review RAMS at least monthly and ensure task-specific RAMS, COSHH assessments, permits, and briefings are in place before works proceed.
• Maintain daily site diaries with photographs, progress updates, labour records, plant records, and key site events.
• Coordinate site meetings with subcontractors, designers, Project Managers, and Thames Water representatives.
• Support procurement and site administration, including purchase orders, delivery tickets, plant hire, skips, and material call-offs.
• Maintain site budget records and provide updates on progress, constraints, risks, and resource requirements.
• Review lift plans, temporary works registers, technical query registers, and other site control documents.
• Manage CDM site setup and maintenance, including welfare, site security, signage, fire precautions, emergency arrangements, and site access controls.
• Issue or manage permits such as working at height, hot works, permit to break ground, and other project-specific permits.
• Complete or maintain site safety records, including observations, SHE returns, SHE audits, weekly inspections, fire extinguisher registers, first aid kit registers, HAVS information, and SWMP updates.
• Support site inspections, quality checks, ITP completion, NCR closeout, snagging, red-line records, and handover evidence.
• Raise early warnings, identify third-party issues, and escalate blockers, defects, design constraints, or operational conflicts promptly.
• Maintain a visible safety presence and stop unsafe works.
• Promote a professional, collaborative, and respectful site culture.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Site Manager, Assistant Site Manager, Site Supervisor, or similar role in construction, infrastructure, utilities, or controlled operational environments.
• Good understanding of site documentation, RAMS, permits, inspections, site diaries, quality records, and programme updates.
• Ability to coordinate subcontractors, direct labour, designers, suppliers, and client representatives.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing site priorities.
• Comfortable using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, FieldView, Viewpoint for Projects, or similar project systems.
• Ability to read drawings, specifications, programmes, and site information.
• Committed to health, safety, quality, environmental compliance, and professional site standards.

Skills

• SMSTS or SSSTS
• CSCS card
• First Aid at Work
• EUSR Water Hygiene
• Temporary Works Awareness
• Experience working on water, utilities, security, MEP, civils, or live operational sites
• Familiarity with Thames Water site access, TWOSA, TOCOP, or similar operational approval processes

Location

• Thames Valley Area - Site Based

Work Type

• Full-time
• Reduced hours
• Flexibly

Experience Level

• Previous experience as a Site Manager, Assistant Site Manager, Site Supervisor, or similar role

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options
• Employee assistance programme providing free 24/7 support
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About the Company

• Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
• Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
• We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

Equal Opportunity

• Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
• We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
• Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
• As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.