Site Manager

The Vacancy

Wates Property Services (WPS) is a market‑leading provider of social housing maintenance and improvement services, delivering responsive repairs, planned maintenance, compliance works and large‑scale refurbishment programmes across the UK. Our Planned Works division plays a key role in delivering safe, high‑quality, energy‑efficient homes for local authorities and housing associations.

We are now seeking an experienced Site Manager with strong Decent Homes and social housing planned works experience to join our growing team supporting programmes across Northampton.

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🔧 The Role

You will take responsibility for managing planned works programmes such as:

• Kitchen, bathroom and internal upgrade schemes
• External refurbishment, roofing, EWI and fire safety works
• Decent Homes compliance activities (aligned to government standards)
• Retrofit, energy efficiency or SHDF‑linked improvement programmes (including those carried out previously with Northampton Partnership Homes)

Your focus will be on delivering high‑quality works safely, on time and within budget while maintaining excellent resident engagement and compliance.

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📝 Key Responsibilities

• Lead day‑to‑day site delivery of Decent Homes and planned works programmes
• Prepare and manage programmes, schedules, RAMS and quality plans
• Ensure compliance with Wates’ Health & Safety standards and statutory regulations
• Manage subcontractors and multi‑trade teams
• Maintain strong communication with residents, client representatives, and internal teams
• Monitor productivity, quality and commercial performance
• Support handover, reporting and contract obligations

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✔️ Skills & Experience Required

To be successful, you must have:

• Proven experience delivering Decent Homes or social housing planned works
• Strong understanding of the Decent Homes Standard and planned maintenance requirements
• Experience working within live, occupied social housing environments
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and coordinate subcontractors
• Excellent communication and resident‑facing skills
• Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, compliance, RAMS
• Full driving licence

Desired:

• Experience with retrofit / energy efficiency (PAS 2035) programmes
• Previous involvement in SHDF or similar funded housing upgrade schemes (e.g., Northampton Partnership Homes projects)

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💼 What We Offer

• Competitive salary & benefits
• Opportunity to grow within a major UK property services provider maintaining 500,000+ homes nationwide
• Supportive, collaborative team environment
• Projects that genuinely improve the quality and energy performance of social housing

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.