At McCarthy Stone, we are looking for a dedicated and proactive Senior Site Manager to join our Kent team. This is your chance to play a key role in ensuring that our developments are built efficiently, safely, and to the highest quality standards while delivering an outstanding experience for our customers.
The ideal candidates will have significant on-site experience, particularly in multi-development projects like flats, apartments, hotels, or houses. A Black Manager CSCS Card, SMSTS certificate, and First Aid Certificate are highly desirable.
Our developments are fast-paced, and you will need to be assertive and calm under pressure in order to achieve critical objectives, without compromising quality standards, and meet numerous construction deadlines, whilst liaising with a wide range of external contractors, suppliers, and in-house teams across different business functions.
We will give you:
Financial:
* Competitive salary + discretionary bonus scheme
* Choice of Company Car/Car allowance
* Company pension scheme
* Life Assurance
* Professional Subscriptions paid for
Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing:
* 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays.
* 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation).
* Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher.
* Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions.
* Family Friendly Policies.
* Excellent development opportunities.
Why Choose This Role?
Reporting to the Contracts Manager the Senior Site Manager will manage a building site to ensure that the development is built to Company and NHBC standards using specified drawings and instructions, within budget and on programme.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of site-based project and manage the control and delivery of our construction projects supervising all direct labour and ensuring that all work is kept on programme. You will assist and promote the important of customer relations to the site-based team and ensure that health, safety, and environmental performance standards are achieved.
What you will do:
* Leadership: Provide strong leadership and guidance to site team. Fostering a culture of excellent.
* Project Oversight: Oversee project planning, scheduling, and execution to ensure that a development is built to Company and NHBC standards within budget and on programme.
* Safety Focus: Prioritise and enforce strict safety standards on-site, ensuring the well-being of our site team and visitors.
Your Attributes
You will bring:
* Experience & Knowledge : A background in trades, supervisory roles, or site management. Preferably holds or is working towards NVQ Level 3 or NVQ Level 4 in Site Management, with a preference for those on the NHBC Manager Accreditation programme.
* CSCS Card : Required at an appropriate level.
* Tech Savvy : Proficient in computer skills with experience in data input, as this is a key aspect of the role.
* Problem-Solver : Initiative and sound decision-making in day-to-day site operations.
* Team Player : Strong communication skills to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
You will have:
* Hold a valid UK Driving License
* The ability to learn policies and procedures quickly and efficiently.
* Excellent ability to collaborate effectively within a team.
* Skilled in fostering positive teamwork and contributing to shared goals.
* Time management, resilient, flexible, multi-tasking, tenacious and agile.
At McCarthy Stone, we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.
All applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and we hold the right to appoint before the closing date.
About Us
As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of May 2024, McCarthy Stone operates 538 developments across the UK for more than 24,200 people.
We believe in championing the role, wellbeing, and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised, and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.
We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2024 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list!
Our Customers
The Benefits
24 days annual leave
Pension
plan
Life
assurance
Employee assistance helpline
Health
screening
Eyecare voucher scheme
Long service award
Testimonials
“I enjoy working for McCarthy and Stone as a House Manager because I am very well supported in my Role by my manager. I am able to make the day to day decisions but always have immediate support on the rare times I need help. It’s a breath of Fresh Air working for a focused dynamic company who know what they are trying to achieve as a team.”
Linda Diamond – House Manager
“Only at McCarthy Stone can you start in the middle of a pandemic and feel at home within a couple of weeks … it’s all about our great people and how welcome they make you feel … even if it was through a screen!”
Andrea Waldron - Senior HR Business Partner
“From my first week I felt like part of the team, everyone is helpful and pro-active, which is crucial in a fast paced environment. I’ve had the opportunity to work on some exciting projects, it’s a very ‘hands-on’ approach here with plenty of opportunity to be involved and play a part in delivering developments.”
Emily Bishop - Principal Planning Associate
“Working for McCarthy Stone is a very fulfilling experience. The staff here are all empathetic and professional. Guiding people in purchasing an apartment, watching them settle in and make friends, and then watching them lead a happy and carefree retirement is very rewarding.”
Caroline Craig-cordel – Sales Consultant
“I found it inspiring how working in McCarthy Stone gives you a chance to make so many people happier, every day. And what we do is so important to our homeowners! In my marketing career before I couldn’t dream about customers sharing their thoughts about my campaigns, but here it happens all the time.”
Stan Smolyar – Head of Brand
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