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Overview Join Our Team as a Team Leader - Construction (Cheshire East) Ringway Jacobs is excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a proactive and experienced Team Leader to join our Construction team in Cheshire East. Reporting to the Construction Manager, you will play a key role in planning, coordinating, and delivering a range of highways improvement and capital works projects across the borough. In this pivotal role, you'll ensure that supervisors, operatives, and supply chain partners work safely and effectively, leading by example to deliver high-quality results in line with service standards, strategies, and policies. You'll take ownership of both major and minor projects, managing them from inception to completion while ensuring full compliance with NEC contract requirements, budget controls, and change management processes. The Role Carry out supervision of both self-delivery and SCP gangs to ensure that works are carried out safely and to the highest standard. Take ownership of recourse to ensure programmes are delivered to key milestones across the contract and to financial budgets. Take ownership of delivery to ensure work is carried out in accordance with Ringway Jacobs specifications and procedures. Ability to self-manage priorities and workload using agile/mobile working across the Cheshire East. Communicate daily with the drainage support team. Good knowledge and application of design procedures, guidance and standards and good practice documents Good knowledge of Construction, Design and Management regulations and application of Health and Safety legislation Good Knowledge of and application of Highway Legislation Previous experience of working with Highways Drainage IT skills to include MS Office, MS Project, Confirm or similar Benefits Sick Pay Competitive salary Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave A variety of discounts through our "RJ Rewards" app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme Pension scheme The Company We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture. Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. If you require further details, please contact our Recruitment Team on or e-mail , or click on the "Apply Now" button. This will take you to a login page, where you will need to create an account to continue your application. Once you have created an account you will be able to see where your application is up to and apply for other opportunities within Ringway Jacobs. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly. We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CVs or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.

Established in 2013, Sapphire Utility Solutions has quickly become the partner of choice for many clients across the UK in our chosen markets. We provide award winning services to the clean water, wastewater, gas, multi utilities and the highways sector. We are passionate about working alongside our client's and partners to maintain the utility services essential to modern life throughout the UK. We are looking for a Civils Site Manager in the North West of England to support our Waste Water Civils framework. Location: North West based - Willing to travel around the region Hours: Monday to Friday - 50 Hours per week. Salary: £40,000-£45,000 (depending on experience) Core Duties and Responsibilities Leads and controls Civils Operatives and Gangers engaged in all activities concerned with the civil works aspects of the United Utilities contract. Ability to optimise resources by ensuring that the work is scheduled out appropriately with the assistance of the scheduling team at the UU head office. Responsible for managing the teams fleet/plant and material requirements to ensure efficient and timely completion of the works. Able to demonstrate good organisational skills, following policies, procedures, and work practices, and developing improvements where necessary. Ability to produce method statements and procedures. Competent in reading and understanding specifications, drawings, and all other discipline related to work and engineering documentation. Keeps records of all work completed. Ensuring our client systems are updating in real time. Commands respect of their workforce and develops excellent working relationships with all other department personnel as well as client management. Must be a confident communicator to liaise both with internal and external clients. Able to give instructions in an efficient and effective way to the workforce and responsible for the daily management of the teams. Ability to read and interpret drawings, including excavation dimensions, concrete mixtures, location, and placement of pipe sections and understand shoring designs. Ensures that work crews are properly supplied with tools, equipment, and materials. Prevents wastage and misuse of equipment, materials, and tools. Supervises work crews to best utilise manpower and materials, exercises discipline at the work site to prevent absenteeism, unsafe work practices and idleness. Familiar with all HS&E also Quality procedures, regulations and strictly enforces them with the workforce under their responsibility. Responsible for the day to day well being of the teams under your control identifies, formulates, and implements training programs for the workforce under his responsibility. Complies with the highest level of safety during all stages of work to avoid any type of incidents and or accidents Experience and qualifications required for the role Experienced in Civils excavations at all depth Coordinating multi-site reactive civil activities Experience in permitting and streetworks requirements Wastewater experience (preferred) Supervising multi-disciplined teams Able to motivate teams Experience of wastewater projects (preferred) Able user of Microsoft office suite, word, excel, power point and inhouse/client IT systems Good commercial awareness Giving toolbox talks and safety briefs to the workplace Qualifications required SMSTS 5-day course (preferred) CSCS site Manager / supervisor (preferred) NRASWA Essential First Aid Manual Handling Abrasive Wheels (desirable) Driving Licence Essential no more than 6 penalty points What you will get in return In joining Sapphire Utility Solutions as part of the Lanes Group - the UK's largest independent provider, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that prioritises the well-being, growth, and safety of our employees. Through continuous training, professional development opportunities, and a supportive environment that values every individual's unique contribution, we empower our team to uphold the highest standards of integrity, collaboration, and inclusivity. What we offer 25 Days holiday plus Bank Holidays Company Car Pension Death in service On call out of hours available at enhanced rate of pay This position is open to Internal and External candidates. Any internal candidates currently employed within a division of the Lanes Group must complete an Internal Application form and submit to recruitment. The Lanes Group plc comprises of a range of established service providers subsidiaries, which complement the specialist service of Lanes, by both work type and geography. Increasing our overall capability, assets and offering to our customers. Lanes - Lanes I - SUS - Clearflow - AQS - We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from under-represented members of the community Strictly no agencies please