Site Manager

We are thrilled to announce a new opportunity for a Site Manager to join our responsive repairs and maintenance team based in Godalming. Ian Williams are a leading property services contractor who provides safe, secure, and supportive working environments for its site and office based teams. We seek a Site Manager who embodies these values and can continue to facilitate the successful completion of our contracts, on time, on budget, and to the highest standards possible.

Benefits include:

• Be part of the company profit share scheme (12% of base salary achieved last year)
• Private mileage scheme and fuel card
• Let us help you prepare for your future with an employer pension contribution of up to 5%
• 23 days annual leave, buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
• Life Insurance 3 x salary
• Access to the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity to support your health and wellbeing, including free legal and financial advice.

The Site Manager role:

• Planning and supervising the running of response and maintenance works on site, so the work is completed on time, to the required quality and cost, effectively. You will be the first point of escalation contact, for queries and support from the trade operatives
• Organising workload, labour planning, plant and material orders
• Ensuring compliance is in line with Ian Williams policy and procedures on Health & Safety and CDMs
• Communicating costs, progress and variances back to surveyors and management regularly
• Managing site administration and records
• Setting and achieving productivity targets, managing cost control and profitability alongside the Contracts Manager
• Carrying out effective inductions to the direct and subcontractor workforce.

What will you bring as a Site Manager?

• A trade background (all trades considered) qualified to NVQ level 2 or above/ equivalent. SMSTS would be advantageous 
• Supervisory experience in the same role or similar eg Foreperson or Site Supervisor
• You will be customer centric in your approach to monitoring productivity with site teams, subcontractors and the client, and you’ll value maintaining excellent relationships internally as well as externally
• The ability to engage and motivate a workforce (including direct labour and subcontractors) to maximise productivity and meet the required standards.
• Strong IT and Microsoft Excel skills.

Additional benefits include:

• Pension contributions
• Industry sick pay
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Preferred company supplier trade discounts
• Regular training and performance reviews, with funding towards job relevant qualifications, allowing for the opportunity to develop within your role, and progress within the business

About Ian Williams Ltd

Discover more about us by reviewing our website, and also through our social media platforms, along with Indeed and Glassdoor.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a criminal records check.  As an organisation assessing applicants’ suitability for positions which are included in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order using criminal record checks processed through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), we comply fully with the code of practice and undertake to treat all applicants for positions fairly.

Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment at Ian Williams—it is the foundation of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different. 

We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date.

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We are delighted to have strong relationships with our preferred agencies, therefore we politely request no agencies engage with us in regards to this position.