Site Foreman - Northwest

Site Foreman – Civils, Water & Highways
North West & Cumbria
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 depending on experience

We are recruiting for an experienced Site Foreman to support the delivery of civils, water, drainage, highways, reinforced concrete, and earthworks schemes across the North West and Cumbria.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on Site Foreman with strong site leadership skills, good technical understanding, and a proactive approach to health, safety, quality, and environmental standards.

The Role

As Site Foreman, you will be responsible for supervising day-to-day site activities, managing site gangs, and ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and to specification.

Your responsibilities will include:

* Supervising general civils works including drainage, reinforced concrete, earthworks, water, and highways activities

* Ensuring RAMS are fully implemented and communicated to site teams

* Promoting strong HSQE standards and ensuring operatives are wearing the correct PPE

* Carrying out daily briefings, toolbox talks, inspections, and site checks

* Reporting near-misses, accidents, hazards, and changing site conditions to management

* Working closely with the wider project team to support safe and efficient delivery

* Ensuring adequate manpower, materials, plant, and equipment are available and organised on site

* Reading and interpreting construction drawings, technical specifications, and site plans

* Managing multiple gangs and coordinating day-to-day activities on site

* Maintaining accurate records, including site updates, progress information, and timesheets

* Identifying and resolving site issues while ensuring works are completed to specification

* Supporting and developing younger members of the team

The Candidate

The successful candidate will have proven experience working as a Site Foreman, General Foreman, Works Manager, or similar within the civils, water, drainage, earthworks, RC, or highways sectors.

You will ideally have:

* Experience supervising general civils, drainage, reinforced concrete, earthworks, water, or highways works

* Strong understanding of RAMS, PPE requirements, and site health and safety procedures

* A positive approach to HSQE and safe working practices

* Ability to manage site gangs, labour, plant, materials, and subcontractors

* Experience reading drawings, specifications, and construction details

* Good record-keeping skills, including timesheets and daily site information

* Strong communication skills and the ability to work with project teams, operatives, and management

* A practical, solutions-focused approach to site delivery

* Ability to support, mentor, and develop junior members of the team

Package

* Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 depending on experience

* 10% car allowance or company van/car

* Pension contributions of 3% to 6%

* Annual profit share bonus after 12 months’ service

* 25 days annual leave, including 7 days at Christmas

* 8 bank holidays

* North West and Cumbria-based works

* Opportunity to work across civils, water, drainage, highways, RC, and earthworks projects

* Long-term opportunity within a busy civil engineering environment

This role would suit an experienced Site Foreman looking for a stable opportunity across varied infrastructure and civil engineering schemes in the North West and Cumbria