Senior Site Manager – Rail
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000
Location: Swindon
Regions: South West, Wiltshire
A leading civil engineering contractor is seeking an experienced Senior Site Manager to work on a number of projects across the South West. Travel between London and Swindon will be important in the initial stages, with the long-term role being based in and around the Wiltshire area. Previous experience of working on high profile rail projects would be extremely advantageous.
Key Responsibilities
* Establish and promote best practice in health, safety and environmental matters in conjunction with the SHQE department.
* Produce Construction Phase Plans (H&S Plans), Risk Assessments, Work Package Plans (Method Statements) and Task Briefings in line with Murphy procedures.
* Ensure that workplaces under their control have effective systems, arrangements and supervision for providing a safe workplace and suitable welfare facilities.
* Ensure that suitable project specific execution plans are produced, reviewed and updated on a regular basis and their requirements are communicated and understood by all project personnel and any others who may be affected.
* Review, maintain, update and amend safe systems of work to ensure it is safe and without risk to health, and the changes are recorded in Project Construction Phase Plans (H&S Plans).
* Ensure that all project personnel have the necessary experience, training and knowledge to carry out the duties allocated to them.
* Project a professional image of self and the company.
* Set a personal example and promote best practice in safety, quality and environment.
* Comply with all company policies and procedures.
* Communicate with the rest of the site team including engineers, quantity surveyors, safety officers and clerk of works to ensure full understanding of information.
* Ensure daily diaries and allocation sheets are up to date.
* Work with engineers on setting out information and details of technical information, contributing to the preparation of method statements.
* Attend and contribute to weekly meetings with site team regarding safety, progress, expenditure, costs and programme (when required).
* Ensure high standards of quality on the works to at least meet the specification requirements.
* Keep off-site line management apprised of potential problems and future work opportunities.
* Establish and maintain close working relationships with the buying department to ensure compliant advantageous procurement terms.
* Establish close working relationships with site supervision to ensure cost-effective use of labour and plant.
* Participate in, and positively promote, the Murphy Culture Development Culture (leading to Zero Harm).
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
* Proven experience working on large civil engineering projects within the rail industry.
* Ability to produce, implement and manage safe systems of work for construction procedures.
* Ability and confidence to communicate and present to Top Level Management, Senior level clients and the public.
* An understanding of the commercial issues in undertaking a large scale construction project.
* Ability and confidence to discuss engineering issues with people across various levels and disciplines.
* Demonstration of knowledge and practical application of the setup and day-to-day running of a construction site.
* Knowledge of company policy and procedures including safety and environment related issues (desirable).
* Demonstration of knowledge and practical application of the setup and day-to-day running of a construction site (desirable).
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