RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing parts of construction projects.
• Day-to-day management of the site, including supervising and monitoring the site labour force and the work of any subcontractors.
• Setting out, leveling, surveying the site and organizing facilities.
• Checking plans, drawings, and quantities for accuracy of calculations.
• Supervising contracted staff.
• Ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales.
• Liaising and communicating with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity surveyors and the overall project manager; regularly providing progress report.
• Acting as the main technical adviser on a construction site for subcontractors, crafts people and operatives.
• Preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork.
• Liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials, making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project.
• Ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to.
• Ensuring that all materials used and work performed are as per specifications.
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant.
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client or architect.
• Liaising with the local authority (where appropriate to the project) to ensure compliance with local construction regulations and by-laws.
• Planning the work and efficiently organizing the plant and site facilities in order to meet set deadlines.
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise