Contract: 3 years
Hours: 37.5 per week
Based at: Site-based currently at Greenwich Peninsular
Starting salary: 29,000 p.a.
Closing date for completed applications: 28th July 2024 at midnight
Interview date: 7th & 8th August 2024 at Greenwich Peninsula
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
Graduate Site Manager Role Profile.docx
The L&Q Apprenticeship Programme has been designed to help you get the career you have always wanted. This role provides the opportunity to start a new career path with a valued-led organisation that will support you to learn and develop throughout the programme and beyond.
A non-UK national is eligible for funding if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of their apprenticeship and have permission from the UK government to live in the UK (not for educational purposes) or have obtained pre-settled or settled status under the EUSS.
http://https//www.gov.uk/guidance/apprenticeship-funding-rules-for-training-providers/annex-a-eligibility-criteria-who-we-fund
L&Q is a leading house builder and has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic graduate to join our construction team. This position is suited to an individual that is looking to advance their career in construction and gain hands-on experience in an established team and supportive workplace, on a flagship high rise, new build scheme.
L&Q's graduate training programme will allow you to gain valuable hands-on experience from the very outset of your career guided by market leading experts. You will be supported to achieve Chartership with the Chartered Institute of Building.
What You Will Do
- Learn to Monitor and Manage all aspects of Safety, Quality, and programme.
- Implement L&Q's H&S procedures, ensuring best practice in all we do.
- Recording and preparation of elements within L&Q's quality management system.
- Monitoring and recording of site progress.
- Short term programming
- Capture quality and progress using 360-degree photogrammetry.
- Keep accurate daily diaries, of both the elements of work and training they have been part of daily, and be able to present these points at future 1:1's.
- Attend management meetings such as project review meetings, progress meetings and handover meetings and provide input based on their capture of progress and health and safety findings.
- Introduction to the design and planning process a project undergoes from inception. This will include insights into the strategy and use of technical drawings within construction and the universally accepted stages through which the technical drawings go through to construction stage.
- Attend design consultant meetings, drawing review meetings and be expected to be part of the problem-solving team if anomalies are found with drawings.
- Liaise with the commercial team to review costs, variations, and scope documentation.
What you will bring to the role
- A keen interest in construction projects
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrable collaboration, stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Commitment to providing high levels of customer service.
- Computer literacy with good proven competency in MS Office.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- An understanding of working within a site environment under supervision, ideally specialising in new build social housing projects. Must have relevant building and construction technology understanding.
You will work towards Chartership with the Chartered Institute of Builders. The entry criteria is:
- A Level 6 qualification such as a bachelor's degree, master's degree or postgraduate diploma or a Level 6 or 7 NVQ or SCQF Level 11 in a built environment subject.
What You Can Expect
- Great company benefits
- Great breadth and variety of experiences through a structured programme within your chosen discipline
- You will have access to outstanding training offered internally.
- You will be supported throughout the programme by an experienced line manager and mentor.
Our Commitments
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 28 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance.
We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you're interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours - if it's feasible then we'll make it happen.
We value diversity in all its facets, including gender, dis/ability, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity. When it comes to finding a diverse balance for our senior positions, we have decided to address gender and ethnicity first. As such we are committed to offering an interview to at least one BAME and one female candidate for all senior leadership positions if they fulfil the role criteria.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion as a Stonewall Top 100 employer, and a Disability Confident (Committed) employer.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.
L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK's most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 110,000 homes, primarily across London the Southeast and the North West of England.
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our 250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
