Contracts Supervisor

Southeast England Region

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working/ part-time hours (shorter working days or fewer days each week).

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

Our Contracts Supervisors are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Contracts Manager, you’ll be responsible ensuring our sites meet pre-agreed standards of health & safety, customer service standards and construction standards. Your role is key in ensuring we deliver the build agreed programme, meeting budgets and quality standards.

We put focus and priority on Health & Safety and the Environment, so you’ll have specific accountabilities for that. Your role is responsible for managing each site that sits under your area of responsibility, taking time to ensure operational targets are met, all operatives have been inducted, sub-contractors are being managed with clear direction. You’ll attend site meetings ensuring progress and variances are documented and shared with all relevant parties. Your priority is ensuring that all site works are delivered to agreed HSE standards including, but not limited to scaffold, slab and crane lift plans.

You’ll maintain quality standards to ensure our customer site handovers meet pre agreed contract specifications and any remedial elements have been documented and addressed prior to handover.

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for construction, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You will need to hold valid CSCS card. You’ll come from a joinery background with extensive timber frame erect experience. You’ll be competent in reading working drawings, with a proven ability to manage, motivate and support operatives in a site environment.

You’ll also have excellent communication and organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting.  You’ll understand the importance of putting the customer first, capable of working in a fast paced environment, adhering to strict deadlines.

You can demonstrate your ability to write clear and concise reports, identifying requirements for labour, deliveries and plant and any variances in programme.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com