Site Manager

Crest Nicholson has been building new homes for 50 years and is firmly established as a leading developer with a passion for not just building homes, but creating vibrant sustainable communities.

Crest Nicholson's Eastern Division have an exciting opportunity for a Site Manager to join their award winning team based on our stunning development in West Malling, Kent.

This will be a collection of brand new homes in West Malling at Lancaster Park, an exclusive development of 3, 4 and 5 bedroom houses.

Great care is always taken to ensure the end product is one of quality, sustainability and innovative design. A career with Crest is both challenging and rewarding, and with large investments currently being made to drive learning and development, as well as fantastic national growth plans, now is a great time to join us.

The successful candidate will be reporting into the Build Manager, and will be responsible for the speedy, accurate and cost effective planning of developments sites. In this role you are expected to gain a detailed understanding of the technical site and design requirements, identify and onboard suitable sub-contractors and ensure construction materials are resourced and stored safely and correctly on the site.

Each element of the scheme will need to adhere to strict quality standards, and you will be conducting critical checks across the scheme, ensuring setting out drawings, road positions, and each dwelling is accurately transferred from concept through to construction and completion. You will also be managing the budgets, whilst never compromising on quality and Health and Safety, immediately bringing any issues to the attention to the Build Manager.

Successful candidates will have the following skills:

• Strong Site Management experience with a main Housebuilder
• Proven experience multi-phase, mixed-use projects
• Excellent time management and able to manage multiple subcontractors on site
• Commercially and financially aware of costing and sustainability
• Strong negotiation skills
• Able to build strong working relationships
• Strong team and people management skills
• Motivated and able to engage with all levels of staff; colleagues and third parties
• Excellent communication skills
• Health and Safety focused with the ability to naturally promote a safe working environment

Crest Nicholson is a leading developer of quality homes and thriving, sustainable communities.

We create great places for our customers to live, selecting desirable locations for our developments and taking a holistic approach to the design of our homes and their surroundings. Attractive placemaking helps us deliver appealing and well-connected communities where people and nature can thrive.

As an employer of choice, we offer an extensive range of benefits, to include:

• Competitive salaries and bonus schemes
• Company car/allowance
• Share save Scheme
• Private pension
• Private healthcare and cash plan options
• 28 days' annual leave
• Childcare vouchers
• Gym membership discounts
• Retail discounts

We seek to be an ethical and progressive employer which encourages a culture of openness, creativity and continuous professional development and which rewards the effectiveness and loyalty of our employees as an equal opportunities employer. If you are applying to work at Crest Nicholson, we will ask you to supply us with sufficient personal information to help us process your application. To learn more about what personal information we will need to process and why, please refer to our recruitment privacy notice which can be found on the Crest Nicholson website under ‘Recruitment Privacy Policy'.