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Senior Site Manager

Saffron Housing Trust
2 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Site Management

Fulltime: 37hrs 
Proposed Interview Date: TBC 

We're looking for a Senior Site Manager to take ownership of residential developments from start to finish. You'll lead site operations, manage subcontractors and resources, ensure programmes and budgets stay on track, and play a key role in delivering outstanding customer satisfaction.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Leading the day-to-day management of a residential development, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety, quality, and site presentation.
  • Taking ownership of build programmes and budgets, driving projects forward to meet production targets and delivery deadlines. 
  • Managing and motivating site teams, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to specification. 
  • Coordinating site operations, resources, materials, and labour to achieve exceptional build quality and customer satisfaction.
  • Ensuring compliance with planning requirements, building regulations, NHBC standards, and company policies. 
  • Carrying out inspections, overseeing plot handovers, and delivering outstanding finished homes for customers.

What You'll Bring:

  • Proven experience as a Senior Site Manager within a volume housebuilding environment.
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and manage high-performing teams. 
  • Excellent planning, organisational, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
  • A passion for quality, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
  • A good understanding of construction processes, build sequencing, health and safety legislation, and NHBC requirements.
  • Valid CSCS Card, SMSTS and First Aid certification, alongside a full UK driving licence. 

This is an opportunity to be part of a business that values quality craftsmanship, teamwork, and customer experience, while giving you the autonomy to lead and deliver successful developments.

This role is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check

 

 

INDAD

Crocus Homes is a quality-driven, Norfolk based building company who design and build high spec homes whilst creating a sense of place and adding value to the local community. Crocus Homes specialises in homes that provide a modern environment, generous space standards, sit well within the landscape, are highly energy efficient and built using quality materials and components and reflect both the local vernacular and deliver the benefits of modern living.

Crocus Homes have accumulated a substantial land bank to allow organic growth with the medium-term goal being to complete circa 75 homes annually.

At Crocus & Saffron we have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Crocus to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron Housing Group community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our customers.

You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.

We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.

As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Housing Group community.

Inspiring Organisation: Outstanding colleague engagement

Inspiring Organisation sets out the path to outstanding colleague engagement which we believe necessary to achieve 90% tenant satisfaction, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Inspiring Communities: 90% customer satisfaction

Inspiring Community sets out the path to increasing tenant satisfaction from 74% to 90%, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Inspiring Innovation: Creating £3m of capacity to invest

Inspiring Innovation sets out the path to freeing up a further £3m per year that we believe necessary to invest in providing the best possible home, service and workplace, and the actions we will take over the next year.

Learning And Development

Covers the membership fee of one professional body relevant to your job role, and excellent opportunities for training & courses

Time Off

Generous holiday entitlement, Holiday Trading, Volunteer and study days, and Enhanced Family Leave

Prioritising Mental Health

Access to our Employee Assistance Program, trained Mental Health First Aiders and wellbeing check-ins

Aviva Pension Scheme

Choose your contribution and Saffron match up to 10%, and we offer Life Assurance cover

Health Schemes

Bupa Private Medical Insurance, Medicash Cashback Plan [eligible after probation completion]

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Cycle to work, and Tusker Car Scheme

Support for your qualifications

Pension

Access to our mental health first aiders