Job Description
Senior Site Manager, Wastewater Treatment Works
Location: Poole / Bournemouth, Dorset
Contract: Long-Term Contract Opportunity
Rate: Negotiable, dependent on experience
Sector:Wastewater, Non-Infrastructure
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Site Manager to join a major wastewater treatment works upgrade project in the Poole / Bournemouth area on a long-term contract basis.
The project forms part of a wider, long-term wastewater improvement programme, with enabling works currently progressing and further construction activities involving phosphorus treatment tanks and temporary treatment installations.
This is an opportunity for an experienced Senior Site Manager with a strong non-infrastructure water background to take responsibility for key construction activities on a complex wastewater treatment scheme.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee day-to-day site operations, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently and to the required standards.
- Manage enabling works, groundworks, reinforced concrete structures and tank construction.
- Coordinate construction activities associated with temporary treatment installations.
- Manage subcontractors, site engineers, supervisors and specialist contractors.
- Ensure compliance with drawings, specifications, RAMS and quality requirements.
- Coordinate temporary works, lifting operations, permits and construction safety arrangements.
- Monitor progress against the construction programme, identifying delays and implementing corrective actions.
- Work closely with the Project Manager, design teams, MEICA teams and client representatives.
- Manage construction interfaces within a live wastewater treatment environment.
- Support construction sequencing, testing, commissioning and handover activities.
Experience Required
- Proven experience as a Senior Site Manager or experienced Site Manager on wastewater treatment works projects.
- Strong non-infrastructure water experience, particularly wastewater treatment works upgrades.
- Experience delivering civil engineering packages, including reinforced concrete tanks, foundations and associated structures.
- Experience managing enabling works and subcontractor packages.
- Experience working within operational wastewater treatment environments.
- Strong understanding of construction health and safety, quality assurance and programme delivery.
- SMSTS and relevant CSCS card.
Desirable:
- Experience with phosphorus removal or tertiary treatment upgrades.
- Experience coordinating temporary wastewater treatment installations or bypass arrangements.
- Experience managing civil and MEICA interfaces.
- Temporary Works Coordinator qualification or experience.
- Previous experience delivering projects under AMP water-sector frameworks.
Contract Opportunity
This is a long-term contract opportunity working on a major wastewater treatment works upgrade, offering continuity of work across an ongoing construction programme.
Interested? Please apply with your updated CV and we will be in touch.
Mario