Social Housing Site Supervisor

Role: Site Supervisor - Social Housing Refurbishment Project: Social Housing (Maintenance) Location: Leighton Buzzard Contract: Permanent Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 + Benefits Kenton Black is working with an award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, and new build specialist across 21 Locations in the UK. They are a Social and Environmentally responsible family run business with over 124 years’ experience. As a result of their success, they are seeking an enthusiastic Site Supervisor to cover North London, Hertfordshire, Essex, and Bedfordshire. The Site Supervisor will need to lead teams on site(s) to enable the contract to be completed on time, with zero defects and to zero harm or risk to the health, safety & welfare of their operational team, client, contractors, or general public. Deputise for the Site Manager as appropriate. The role will require someone with a Social Housing background in particular within planned, refurbishment minor works. Job Role: • Ensure the supervised site activities comply with H&S regulations and staff follow H&S policies/ procedures through effective training, risk assessments and audits, record keeping. • Monitor/identify/resolve H&S issues, within the supervised team, and escalate/report any safety matters accordingly and timely. • Ensure quality delivery of works though daily/weekly auditing and supervision; resolve issues and escalate where necessary. • Continually monitor/review progress of work against the programme, schedule of works and budget; provide timely reports to Site/Contracts/Manager (SM/CM) and stakeholders. • Assist SM/CM in the selection and procurement of materials and plant. • Follow labour and material resource plan and escalate issues/discrepancies. • Conduct benchmarking to agree the required quality standards; ensure consistency throughout the supervised works, through the team, to the handover. • Monitor day-to-day customer relations, taking steps to prevent issues from occurring • Proactively work with Customer Liaison team to understand customer needs to prevent complaints, resolving queries in a proactive and timely manner. Whilst also supporting complaint handling to resolution. • Provide information on site activities to support SM/CM in progress meetings with clients and customers. • Assist Site Manager in managing staff in line with policies and procedures; recruitment, training, capability, disciplinary, talent development and succession; escalate issues and contribute to performance reviews. • Escalate training/development needs. • Act in a professional manner at all times, including communications with customers and clients, demonstrating the company values and desired behaviours through the Novus Way Ideal Candidate: • Multi trade refurbishment and maintenance and current industry knowledge • Working to specifications and scope/Programme of works • People supervision and first line management • Working in live environment alongside members of the public and third parties • Practical application of H&S regulations, working to quality and compliance standards • Customer and client facing activities in construction industry • IT skills (word, excel, email) • Commercially astute • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), organisation, planning and attention to detail • SMSTS qualified, NVQ level 2 Trade or timeserved Site Supervisor • 3 Day HSE First Aid at Work certificate If you are interested please apply with your most up to date CV. For further questions please call the Birmingham Office and ask for Conner