Site Manager

Highways Site Manager Location: Royton, Oldham Salary: £46,000 – £52,000 DOE + £4,000 Car Allowance & Benefits Job Type: Full-time, Permanent We are recruiting for an experienced Highways Site Manager to lead the delivery of a major highways and public realm upgrade in Royton Town Centre, Oldham. This is a fantastic opportunity to take responsibility for a significant urban highways scheme involving highway reconstruction, new cycle lanes and paths, improvements to bus corridors and high-specification paving and public realm works. The Role As Highways Site Manager, you will oversee the day-to-day delivery of the project, ensuring works are completed safely, efficiently, on programme and within budget. You will work closely with the Contracts/Projects Manager during pre-construction and throughout delivery, coordinating site teams, subcontractors and suppliers. You will be responsible for monitoring progress against the programme, managing site resources, ordering plant and materials and maintaining high standards of quality and health & safety. The project is being delivered within a busy town centre environment, so strong communication and stakeholder management skills will be essential to ensure disruption to surrounding businesses and the public is kept to a minimum. What We're Looking For We are looking for an experienced highways professional with: * Strong experience delivering highways reconstruction, cycle paths, bus lanes/corridors and public realm works * Experience managing subcontractors, site teams and suppliers * Strong knowledge of health & safety and construction site management * Ideally an NVQ Level 5 in Civil Engineering, Construction Site Management or a similar discipline You should be a confident leader with strong communication and problem-solving skills and be comfortable managing a complex project within a busy urban environment. Salary & Benefits The position offers a salary of £46,000 – £52,000 depending on experience, alongside a £4,000 annual car allowance and an excellent benefits package. Benefits include 26 days' holiday plus bank holidays and a Christmas shutdown, private healthcare, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance at 3x salary, holiday buy/sell options, employee discounts, additional holidays for length of service, salary sacrifice car scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and ongoing training and development. If you are an experienced Highways Site Manager looking for a permanent opportunity on a major public realm and highways project in the Oldham area, please apply with an up-to-date CV. By submitting your job application to Ionic Recruitment, you are hereby giving us your consent to use your personal data for recruitment purposes detailed in the GDPR Policy Document. This can be viewed at: (url removed)