Senior Site Manager

Senior Site Manager - Major Healthcare Project £350/day + around 2 years of work on a major healthcare build in Oxford.

If youre a hands-on Senior Site Manager who wants to be out driving the job rather than managing it from behind a desk, this is a strong long-term contract.

About the role

Youll work alongside the Construction Manager and wider delivery team, taking ownership of day-to-day site operations across multiple subcontract packages.

The focus is simple: safe delivery, strong subcontractor control, programme, quality and solving problems before they hit the job.

Key responsibilities

• Manage daily site activities and multiple subcontract packages
• Drive short-term programmes, sequencing and look-ahead planning
• Coordinate subcontractors, Site Managers, supervisors and labour
• Review RAMS, permits, ITPs and construction information
• Monitor quality against drawings, specifications and programme
• Coordinate closely with M&E, design and specialist trades
• Manage logistics, access, deliveries and trade interfaces
• Identify buildability and sequencing issues early
• Maintain high health, safety and environmental standards
• Act as Temporary Works Coordinator
• Support snagging, commissioning and handover

Requirements

• Strong Senior Site Manager / experienced Site Manager background on substantial building projects
• Current CITB Temporary Works Coordinator qualification
• SMSTS, CSCS Management card and First Aid
• Strong subcontractor and package-management experience
• Confident reading drawings and managing construction sequencing
• Experience coordinating M&E / building-services interfaces
• Practical, proactive style with the confidence to challenge subcontractors and make decisions on site

Particularly relevant experience includes:

• Hospitals / healthcare
• Laboratories
• Major fit-out
• Modular construction
• Technically complex or heavily serviced buildings
• Fire stopping, partitions, ceilings and builders work
• M&E penetrations and interface coordination

Best-Fit Candidates / Useful Matching Context

Strong matches may currently be working as a Senior Site Manager, Site Manager, Construction Manager or Senior Construction Manager within a main contractor or major construction environment.

Relevant backgrounds include healthcare construction, hospitals, laboratories, major commercial buildings, fit-out, life sciences and other technically complex M&E-intensive projects.

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