Site Manager, London

We are currently recruiting for a Site Manager to work within our team in Livingston - Site Based in London.

Livingston Building Services are a leading provider of M&E Services, providing our clients with innovative M&E engineering solutions. Our continued success requires commitment from everyone, whatever their role. Everything we do we need to do well, enabling us to consolidate our position as a leading player in an extremely competitive market. In return for your commitment, the company will continue to implement its vision to create environments for people to thrive.

The site manager will assume responsibility for the day-to-day running of the project, including the management of all on-site activities, labour, procurement, and cost control. Therefore, it is critical that the successful candidates can demonstrate significant experience adhering to project programmes - from procurement onto construction and completion, within strict time constraints as well as developing detailed project plans to guide clients, staff members and project teams and revising based on changing needs and requirements.

The successful candidates will hold a thorough working knowledge of site set-up and delivery of the project programme to enable the safe, timely delivery of a quality product. A critical area of skill is the promotion of a safe working environment to maximise safety with direct employees, agency staff and subcontractors and to take necessary action where serious or repeated disregard for safety is shown.

Acting as a first point of contact for the site operations team to offer support and advice, the role assumes overall responsibility to ensure the onsite labour team have the requisite skill, qualifications, and experience to carry out their activities by regularly monitoring & recording performance/ quality of work.

You will be expected to consistently behave and interact in line with the values of the business, while leading their team, setting objectives and developing people in order to provide a service of quality to customers and clients, both internal and external.

Ensuring compliance with all aspects of both Health & Safety Legislation and internal H&S Management System will be crucial. Successful candidates will also be skilled in delivering project programme and phasing presentations to clients, managing client, sub-contractor and team meetings effectively and managing their time and delegating effectively.

Personal Attributes

The successful candidate will be a confident team player and have experience of working effectively with people, common sense, great organisational and time management skills, vision and initiative. The candidate will be a great communicator, both written and verbally and have basic IT skills.

The successful candidates must

• Be flexible in terms of hours work
• Be willing to work away from home if required
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Be computer literate, be fully IT literate in MS Word and Excel (at intermediate level)
• Experience with Asta project planning software
• Construction-related academic qualification
• Hold a relevant CSCS card, SMSTS, First Aid at Work, Asbestos Awareness
• Successful candidates must be willing to work out of London office base and be based on site as and when the job requires. Flexible approach to working hours required.

Other information

• Holidays increase with long service
• Extra 1/2 day off for your birthday
• Hybrid / Flexible Working
• Access to Private GP services
• EAP programme
• Refer a friend bonus

Remuneration

• Competitive salary with car allowance
• 5% Employers Pension Contributions

Valuing People at Livingston

Livingston is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

One of our core values is to 'Value People'. We are passionate about investing in people and genuinely take care about what we do and how we do it. This ensures that the working environment, staff, suppliers and the communities we serve always remain at the front-of-mind.

Put simply, a diverse and inclusive workforce opens our business up to a much wider talent pool and greater innovation and creativity through teams with different perspectives.

Interested? We look forward to hearing from you!