Assistant Site Manager

**Assistant Site Manager** Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

**Salary**: £37,672 to £46,044
Location: Manchester Region
Benefits: Competitive pension, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans for public transport plus much more.

**GREAT PLACES - THE BUSINESS**

Great Places Housing Group is a modern, forward-looking profit-for-purpose organisation. Our vision is to create great homes in great communities none of which would be achievable without the great people in Great Places’ workforce. Whilst social purposeis very much at the core of what we do we balance this responsibly with a commercial perspective to ensure our vision is sustainable in the longer term.

**CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- To contribute to the strategic leadership of Great Places and shaping the vision;
- To ensure the responsibilities of the post are carried out in a way that reflects the standards, vision and values of Great Places;
- To set, monitor and deliver on key performance indicators across the department, aiming to deliver continuous improvement;
- To inspire and motivate staff, developing and managing team members (direct and indirect) effectively and enabling them to give their best;
- To deliver value for money and manage resources effectively and efficiently, ensuring that targets (financial and non-financial) are met;
- To promote Great Places to employers, sector bodies, and the local community, developing effective partnerships with employers, the funding agencies and other representative bodies;
- To proactively promote Safeguarding practice, EDI and Health and Safety.
- To undertake appropriate training and staff development.
- To identify and develop individual contribution in the delivery of the Great Places competency framework

**PURPOSE OF ROLE**:

- Passionate about construction, house building and customer service.
- Proven ability to manage trades and programmes on a busy building site
- Proven knowledge and experience of Building & Construction
- Sound knowledge of Health, Safety and Welfare facilities and CDM
- Good communication, organisation, collator, delegator and man management
- Articulate, numerate, literate and able to read drawing

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Assist the site manager to ensure that all construction work under their control is built in accordance with the programme of works.
- Cover the site when the manager is on leave
- Must have a full understanding of building regs and NHBC standards
- Open and lock site as required
- Manage staff and contractors
- Ensures effective control of subcontractors in maintaining all necessary quality control checks to ensure the required standard by complying with the relevant specification and working practices
- Assist the Site Manager in the preparation of final inspections.
- Assist the site manager regarding the calling off of materials and for adjustment of schedules pertaining to under scheduling and surplus requirements.
- Assist the site manager with regard to positioning/storing and protection of materials.
- Liaises with Site manager regarding the performance and assessment of subcontractors.
- Liaises with Site Manager regarding the maintenance of daily and weekly records.
- Maintains all aspects of the requirements laid down by the Health and Safety Executive and the Factory Inspectorate and ensure at all times that the security of buildings is maintained.
- Liaises with Sites Manager regarding the handover process of plots at completion.
- Liaises with Site manager prior to meetings and inspections by client, to enable discrepancies/peculiarities to be raised and clarified.
- Liaises with the Site Sales Team and Contracts Manager regarding handover dates and purchaser occupation and/or any purchaser queries raised prior to and after occupation.
- Help with the HUGS packs
- Help with the electronic transfer of all handover documents to the NHBC and GP portal

**ASSISTANT SITE MANAGER**

Person Specification
- SMSTS
- 1ST AID
- Scaffold awareness (preferred)
- CSCS Card (preferred)
- Temp works coordinator(preferred)

**EXPERIENCE & SKILLS**:

- Trade background or at least a site based background
- Proven track record within a volume house building
- Must have some Assistant management experience
- Good man management
- Proven ability to build and work to programme
- Good communication skills

**PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES**:

- Willingness to share learning with peers, guide, train and to coach others
- Great people skills and a track record in change management
- Good commercial awareness and insight
- An ability to work in uncertainty
- Self-reliant and resilient
- Professional and value led with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity
- Commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
- Ability to travel between sites and to meet external commitments
- Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours

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