About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Site Supervisor to join our team in Operations. As a Site Supervisor, you will play a key role in the delivery of major maintenance and minor improvement schemes across the East region. Reporting directly to the Construction Assurance Manager, you will undertake construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify quality of works undertaken by external contractors.
You’ll have the opportunity to work a varied schedule, which may include regular evenings, nights and weekends, and you’ll benefit from paid overtime and/or an out of hours allowance in addition to your base salary for any work undertaken during these times.
As this is a safety‑critical role with regular travel to sites across the region, you must either live or be able to relocate to within one hour’s commutable distance of Bedford, Cambridge or Ipswich.
Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.
Responsibilities
* Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalating any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements.
* Ensuring construction works comply with CDM regulations, HSE Legislation, Environmental legislation and Chapter 8 requirements, ensuring that Principal Contractor (PC) duties are properly discharged by the relevant parties.
* Ensuring Project Managers receive regular and timely feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, early warnings, design related issues, and acting as the initial point of escalation for any on‑site issues that need to be resolved.
* Acting as liaison between all key supply chain partners and co‑ordinating the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.
* Representing the interests of National Highways on construction/maintenance site(s), assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and escalating any concerns to Construction Assurance Manager or Construction Manager, in line with agreed governance agreement.
About you.
* Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience; experience of working on high‑speed Trunk Road/Motorway Networks
* Good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM Regulations
* CSCS Card Holder, SSSTS or SMSTS Certificate is essential.
* Ability to execute tasks independently yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance & support.
* Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word and Outlook
Benefits and other info
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
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