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Senior General Foreperson
Location: Ashford, covering sites across Kent & East Sussex
We’re looking for a Senior General Foreperson to join our AMP8 Framework Team and take charge of delivering Flow Monitoring upgrades across 50 Southern Water sites. This is your chance to make a real impact on essential services while working on a high-profile project.
In this role, you will play a key part in leading site operations, ensuring work is delivered safely, to specification, on programme and to the highest quality standards.
Our Environment Division delivers end ‑ to ‑ end (“source to sea”) asset solutions across the UK and Scotland, working on both framework and standalone projects. Since AMP3, we have successfully delivered over £2bn of assets for clients including Yorkshire Water, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Thames Water, Southern Water, Welsh Water and Scottish Water.
As a well ‑ established partner in the water sector, we are entering an exciting period of transformation. We are continuing to innovate, invest in digital delivery and strengthen our long ‑ term capability. This is a great opportunity to be part of that journey.
What you'll be doing:
- Promoting and maintaining a safe, healthy and inclusive site environment.
- Managing and supporting the site team and supply chain on a day ‑ to ‑ day basis.
- Planning, coordinating and monitoring progress of allocated sections of work.
- Managing labour, plant and materials to meet programme and cost targets.
- Leading daily site activities and ensuring effective communication across teams.
- Ensuring all works (temporary and permanent) are delivered in line with design and quality requirements.
- Identifying and reporting any changes to scope, programme, design or commercial impacts.
- Raising and supporting the resolution of technical challenges as they arise.
- Carrying out regular health and safety inspections and promoting best practice.
- Ensuring RAMS, permits to work, site inductions and safety briefings are correctly implemented.
- Maintaining accurate site records, including detailed daily diaries.
- Monitoring capability and workload of operatives and contractors, escalating concerns where needed.
- Supporting the introduction of new processes, techniques and innovations on site.
Providing regular progress updates to the Site Manager and Project Manager.
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About you:
You will be someone who takes pride in leading by example and creating a positive site culture, while delivering complex work safely and efficiently. You will bring:
- A strong commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.
- Experience working in heavy civils and/or water industry environments.
- The ability to manage multiple work packages and interface with different disciplines.
- Confidence reading and interpreting drawings, specifications, programmes and technical information.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise effectively.
- Proven experience leading teams within a construction site environment.
- Excellent communication skills and experience liaising with clients and stakeholders.
A proactive, collaborative approach aligned with our values of Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.
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Qualifications and certifications (or working towards):
- SMSTS
- CSCS
- EUSR National Water Hygiene
- EUSR Modules 1 & 2
- Temporary Works Supervisor (TWS)
- First Aid at Work
- Fire Marshal
A relevant qualification in construction, engineering or a related discipline.
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What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our Benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
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About us:
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact [email protected]
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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