Site Manager

About The Role

Job Title: Cabling Site Manager – Power T&D

Location: Wessex Balfour Beatty Site Office, Rear of Wiltshire Concrete, Roundway Business Park, Roundway, Devizes SN10 2LT

Business Unit: Power Transmission & Distribution

We are seeking an experienced Cabling Site Manager to join our Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) team based in Devizes. This is a key delivery role responsible for managing cabling construction activities on site and supporting the Project Team to successfully deliver works across all project phases.

You will take sectional/partial accountability for project delivery from initiation through to commissioning and handover, ensuring works are delivered safely, sustainably and in line with client and business expectations.

NG PCSM qualification (National Grid Project Construction Site Manager) – Mandatory

• Attend periodic project reviews (PRM) and update the Digital Briefcase in accordance with GBL
• Maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)
• Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholders
• Initiates good scope/information/configuration management principles
• Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost effective decisions in line with overall strategy
• Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
• Knowledge and experience of discipline
• Implement technical information and drawings into delivery
• Understand and specify plant and equipment requirements
• Numerical skills
• Help to develop, implement and update resource allocation plans (OBS) and raise appropriate requests
• Setting people to work
• Plan and ensure delivery to programme
• Check competencies
• Escalating issues
• Upskilling others
• Empowerment to stop works
• Coordinate with other project activities and internal functions
• Deliver a quality product
• Highlight resource issues
• Motivate and empower the team using the resources available through training, mentoring and performance management.
• Produce plans for the team to achieve goals/aspirations
• Assist the Project Manager to lead risk/opportunity reviews, present the Risk Register and recommend/implement changes
• Log and elevate any issues that cannot be resolved at delegated level of authority
• Management of subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that contractual arrangements are achieved
• Help to ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project plans, such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled deadlines
• Follow targets/KPI’s in line with project objectives and monitor performance
• Ensure assurance activities (audits) are undertaken and take appropriate action on findings
• Contribute towards workshops that cover the principles of continuous improvement
• Ensure that expenditure is in line with the budget and that resources are utilised efficiently to ensure cost control
• Able to identify elements for cost recovery from others
• Incorporate and balance both operational and commercial constraints into decision making
• Analyse, appraise and implement CEs
• Knowledge of commercial impact
• Notify commercial changes
• Requesting plant and materials
• Quantifying materials needed

• Experience in implementing safe systems of work
• Experience in managing risks and change processes
• Good understanding of the standard forms of contracts
• Proficient in commercial/project management communications
• Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the organisation
• Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business and be able to negotiate and influence
• Able to undertake work in high pressure situations with a flexible attitude
• A record of a solutions-based approach to problem solving
• Communicate and check understanding of daily briefings
• Two way communication e.g. brief out weekly safety pack
• Discuss ideas and plans competently
• Communicate new concepts and ideas to non-technical stakeholders
• Effective personal and social skills
• Awa…