Senior Site Manager (Internals)

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Manager to join our talented in-house Construction team. Based at our largest development yet, the role will be working at our First Street development – an innovative £300 million, multi-purpose development consisting of four high-rise towers.

The ideal candidate will have experience with high rise and student accommodation builds.

Downing is a family-owned, market leading real estate investment, development, and property management business; highly regarded in the student accommodation sector. Downing has operated for over 30 years, with 14 student accommodation sites across 9 major cities, and a further £1bn of upcoming developments in our pipeline.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the achievement of Downing’s safety targets and zero tolerance of unsafe working practices and occurrences.
• To deliver the sub project to the client within budget, Quality Assurance standards, on programme and to stringent safety parameters.
• To work with the planning team to develop detailed and accurate short-term programmes of work.
• To assess the staff capability and performance.
• To conscious of build and delivery of the section/project.
• To provide accurate and timely reporting of progress of the project.
• To ensure adoption of innovative ideas from within the business and from the workforce.
• To plan the programming of day-to-day resource requirement and communicate these to the construction team.
• To interface with other sections managers to share best practice and ensure effective resource utilisation.
• To monitor external changes to work plans and report the effect of change.
• To lead section meetings and review progress in productivity, design and achievement of commercial requirements.
• To ensure effective implementation Downing’s project management systems and procedures.
• Contribute to the contract review process.

Key Skills:

• Previous experience handling internal construction
• Background of over-seeing high-raise schemes and large-scale brickwork
• Excellent leadership and people management skills
• Detailed knowledge of Health & Safety Legislation
• Influencing skills
• Good verbal communication skills
• Thorough understanding of project flow and demand fulfilment
• Good knowledge of plant and equipment
• The ability to work with initiative when outside influences affect planned operations

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life assurance cover
• Pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• Car allowance