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 South West 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 Bristol or Exeter.
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.
Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements.
Ensure that 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 act 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-ordinate the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.
Represent the interests of National Highways on construction / maintenance site(s), assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and escalate 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