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Job Title: Decarbonisation Site Manager
Location: South Birmingham
Specialism: Social Housing
Duration: Temporary to Permanent
Start date: ASAP
We are working with a leading Social Housing / regeneration contract to recruit a proactive Site Manager to deliver Social Housing refurbishment schemes, including Window and Door replacements, Kitchen and Bathroom replacements EWI, IWI, Loft Insulation, Ventilation, Heating to housing association properties in South Birmingham.
The service is to focus on providing a high-quality home with improved energy efficiency to customers through proactive and effective management within their service area. This includes driving our decarbonisation and retrofitting ambitions through from strategy to delivery, making the best use of resources and grant funding to ensure that we get maximum benefit for both tenants and the organisation. You will drive a positive health and safety culture across all areas of works ensuring that all legislative and statutory obligations are met.
Duties of the Decarbonisation Site Manager:
- Identifying discrepancies and taking appropriate actions, reporting back to management when this occurs
* Work closely and meet with client and stakeholders on site to survey and complete property condition reports.
* Developing policies & procedures to support the achievement of new projects
* Site visits to undertake inspections of works and/or liaise with trade operatives, tenants, contractors or statutory bodies to resolve any issues and ensure high satisfaction is achieved
* Maintain Health and Safety and environmental management.
* Drawing up construction phase safety plans and ensuring the safe delivery set out within each plan.
* Understand and manage all client expectations maintaining good working relations.
* Complete project handover and ensure everything is defect/snag free
Technical abilities of the Decarbonisation Site Manager:
- Relevant professional qualification in Construction e.g. HNC/HND, BSc degree or equivalent or comparable through experience in work related to the role.
* Experience of delivering planned WHQS programmes of work within budget
* Retrofit co-ordinator or willing to work towards
* Experience and Knowledge of decarbonisation ORP
* Evidenced experience of Health and Safety legislation and operational working practices relating to construction and maintenance works.
* Strong knowledge of building construction, maintenance and associated technical information.
* Working knowledge of retrofit assessments, EPC's and asset databases.
* Contract and procurement knowledge including JCT, schedules of rates, specification writing and building elemental costing.
* Knowledge and understanding of the legal responsibilities and rights of landlords and tenants and the duties of statutory and other agencies under health and safety and tenancy law.
* Understanding of what excellent customer service and tenant communication should look like in relation to maintenance services, including formal consultations relating to service chargeable activity.
* Strong staff management skills with experience of managing staff, including setting standards and monitoring performance.
* Confident when planning and managing budgets and resources.
* Ability to analyse complex information and construct written reports in a logical and concise manner.
* Confident at building effective relationships with a wide range of individuals and organisations.
* Ability to develop, operate, monitor, and maintain systems including IT for effective management information.
* Possess a valid full driving licence for a car and have the use of a car each working day
Qualifications required:
* Driving licence and own caR
* SMSTS
If this position is of interest, please apply with your up to date CV and Shannen will be in touch!
