The Vacancy
🌞 Site Manager – Renewables (Liberty)
📍 Maidstone, Dartford, Canterbury & Folkestone
🏢 Energy Transition Team
Ready to help drive the future of sustainable homes? Join our Liberty Energy Transition team as a Site Manager, leading Solar PV, Ventilation & ASHP installation projects that make homes greener and lives better 💚🌍
⭐ What you’ll be doing
1. Oversee day‑to‑day site delivery across our renewable’s contracts 🔧⚡
2. Manage Solar PV, ASHP & ventilation installs (MCS projects)
3. Lead subcontractors, plan programmes & ensure top‑quality delivery 📅
4. Keep all H&S, RAMS, permits & quality checks up to date 🦺
5. Work closely with design teams, customers & Liberty colleagues 🤝
6. Maintain efficient methods of working & ensure all documentation is handed over correctly 📑
👀 What we’re looking for
7. Experience managing planned works & renewable/retrofit projects
8. Strong knowledge of JCT/NEC contracts
9. SMSTS, CSCS, First Aid & relevant H&S qualifications
10. Great communicator, highly organised & strong on customer care ⭐
11. Able to lead teams, manage deadlines & stay solution‑focused
12. Full UK driving licence 🚘
💙 Why join us?
At Liberty, our values shape everything we do – People Focused, Always Accountable, Simply Innovative & Helpfully Smart.
You’ll be joining an inclusive team committed to improving lives and delivering high‑quality, sustainable solutions every day.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Awards
BEST PROJECT
Inside Housing Development Awards
WINNER
2022 Construction News Awards Winner
GOLD AWARD
Investors in People 2022
GOLD AWARD
Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards
TOP 50 EMPLOYERS
2022 Top 50 Employers for Women
WINNER
2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards