Site Supervisor at National Highways

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

10 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

09 Feb, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Highway Experience, Construction Experience, Safety Compliance, Quality Assurance, Communication Skills, Team Collaboration, Problem Solving, MS Office Proficiency, CDM Regulations Knowledge, Inspection And Test Plans, Risk Management, Construction Surveillance, Environmental Legislation Knowledge, Stakeholder Liaison, Documentation Management, Construction Standards Knowledge

Industry

Civil Engineering

Description

About the job National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Site Supervisor to join our team in Operations. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering schemes across the Southeast region, ensuring works are completed safely, efficiently, and to the required standards. Reporting directly to the Construction Assurance Manager, you will carry out construction surveillance and assurance inspections to verify the quality of works, ensuring all activities comply with specifications, standards, and approved Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs). Please note that you may be required to work predominantly unsociable hours, including nights and weekends, for which overtime and/or an out‑of‑hours allowance will be paid. This role will be all over the South East Area 3 network, and you will be based from our Basingstoke office. Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment. Assuring the completion of planned works to agreed standards and escalating any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager (CAM), in line with agreed governance agreements. Ensuring that construction works comply with CDM Regulations, HSE legislation, environmental legislation, and Chapter 8 requirements, ensuring that Principal Contractor (PC) duties are properly discharged by the relevant parties. Providing CAMs with timely feedback on construction progress, risks, early warnings, design issues, and any on‑site challenges that need escalating. Acting as the key liaison between National Highways and supply chain partners, coordinating delivery programmes and supporting buildability reviews. Monitoring works against approved Inspection and Test Plans, making sure hold points, witness points, and quality checks are completed and properly recorded. Ensuring contractors provide accurate and complete quality documentation, including test results, material certificates, and as‑built records, and raising any non‑conformances promptly. Ensuring issues are identified early, challenged appropriately, and resolved collaboratively with contractors and internal teams. Representing the interests of National Highways on construction/maintenance sites, assuring supplier performance and the completion of planned works to agreed standards, and escalating any concerns to the Construction Assurance Manager or Construction Manager, in line with the agreed governance agreement. About you Proven highway/structures and maintenance/construction experience; experience of working on high‑speed trunk road/motorway networks is essential. Good understanding of the DMRB, MCHW, Chapter 8, and CDM Regulations. CSCS card holder; SSSTS or SMSTS certificate is essential. Ability to execute tasks independently yet work collaboratively within a team and respond to management guidance and support. Computer literate with knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, and Outlook. Strong communication skills with the confidence to challenge, influence, and maintain effective working relationships on site. About us Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Why you should join us At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation. A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home. Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible. Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10% Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working Life assurance of 4 times annual salary Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience And we are Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include: Right to work check 3 year employment history references DBS criminal record check Social media and adverse journalism check Driving licence check (if applicable) Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable) Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable) And finally We reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires.

Responsibilities

The Site Supervisor will ensure that construction works are completed safely, efficiently, and to the required standards while carrying out construction surveillance and assurance inspections. They will act as a liaison between National Highways and supply chain partners, coordinating delivery programs and monitoring compliance with specifications.