Overview
Site Supervisor – Exeter
About the job.
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Site Supervisor to join our Operations team. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering schemes across the Southwest region, ensuring works are completed safely, efficiently, and to the required standards. Based out of one of the following offices/depots Exeter Ash House, Exeter Sowton Depot or Notterbridge Depot based in Cornwall.
Reporting directly to the Construction Assurance Manager, you will carry out construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify the quality of works, ensuring all activities comply with specifications, standards, and approved Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs).
Please note that this role may require predominantly unsociable hours, including nights and weekends, for which appropriate overtime and/or an out‑of‑hours allowance will be paid.
This role will involve working across the Southwest network, with a preference for candidates based in Cornwall. Applicants from other regions are welcome, provided they are willing to travel as required.
Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.
- Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalate any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements.
- Ensure that construction works comply with CDM regulations, HSE Legislation, Environmental legislation and Chapter 8 requirements, ensuring that Principal Contractor (PC) duties are properly discharged by the relevant parties.
- Ensuring Project Managers receive regular and timely feedback on scheme construction progress, risks, early warnings, design related issues, and act as the initial point of escalation for any on-site issues that need to be resolved.
- Acting as liaison between all key supply chain partners and co-ordinate the delivery programme, ensuring buildability reviews are carried out on all projects.
- Represent the interests of National Highways on construction / maintenance site(s), assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and escalate any concerns to Construction Assurance Manager or Construction Manager, in line with agreed governance agreement.
About you.
- Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience; experience of working on high-speed Trunk Road/Motorway Networks is essential.
- Good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8 and CDM Regulations
- CSCS Card Holder, SSSTS or SMSTS Certificate is essential.
- Ability to execute tasks independently yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance & support.
- Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word and Outlook
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
