Senior Site Manager

Senior Site Manager
Location: UK-wide with extensive travel
Reports to: Projects Director

 

Join Clarke Energy as a Senior Site Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Manager to provide operational leadership, governance and cross-portfolio oversight across Clarke Energy’s project sites throughout the UK and Ireland. This high‑mobility, site‑focused role is central to embedding our health, safety and environmental standards, supporting subcontract site managers and ensuring consistent, safe and high‑quality project delivery across a diverse portfolio.

Acting as the link between Project Management, our SHEQ function and key client stakeholders, you will play a critical part in driving compliance, coaching site teams and fostering a strong, positive safety culture.

 

Key Responsibilities

Site Oversight & Standards

• Deliver cross-portfolio oversight of subcontract site managers, ensuring consistent behaviours, reporting and compliance.
• Embed Clarke Energy’s HSE expectations across all live sites, maintaining rigorous standards and documentation.
• Conduct regular site audits, coaching sessions and behavioural observations to raise capability and drive best practice.
• Promote a zero‑tolerance approach to unsafe working practices.

Health, Safety & Environmental Leadership

• Assist Project and SHEQ teams, as well as clients, during H&S incidents or escalations.
• Contribute to incident investigations, ensuring accurate reporting, timely communication and effective corrective actions.
• Reinforce CDM principles and safe systems of work across subcontract teams, offering competent guidance on CDM matters.

Project Support & Coordination

• Support mobilisation and demobilisation of sites, ensuring readiness, compliance and effective inductions.
• Benchmark performance across projects, identifying trends, opportunities and good practice.
• Maintain accurate site records, daily diaries, progress photos and H&S documentation.

Subcontractor & Resource Management

• Oversee subcontracted site management personnel across a multi‑site portfolio.
• Support onboarding and coaching of subcontract site managers, enhancing leadership capability on site.

Client & Stakeholder Interface

• Act as a key point of coordination between site teams, clients, SHEQ and the Projects function during critical events.
• Support professional, consistent communication across all stakeholder groups.
• Represent Clarke Energy’s values, behaviours and standards in customer-facing situations.

 

Essential Qualifications & Skills

• Strong on-site construction experience, ideally with Principal Contractor responsibilities.
• Strong working knowledge of CDM Regulations and site safety governance.
• SMSTS and CSCS (Black, Gold or White PQP) mandatory.
• Demonstrable experience coaching or managing people in construction environments.
• Confident working with subcontractors across multiple sites.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive standards, consistency and continuous improvement across dispersed teams.
• NEBOSH Level 3 qualification.
• Management or supervisory qualifications (e.g. ILM, NVQ Construction Management).
• Experience in EPC, CHP or energy‑sector construction projects.
• Audit experience (H&S, quality or process audits).

 

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday, plus enhanced entitlement with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• 7% company pension contribution
• Health care cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working (when not site‑based)
• Reward and recognition schemes
• Investment in professional development
• In-house certified training department

 

About Clarke Energy

Clarke Energy, a Rehlko company, is an award-winning multinational specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of energy solutions. We deliver high‑quality installations backed with accountable aftersales support, operating with integrity and high ethical standards. As the largest authorised distributor and service provider for INNIO’s reciprocating engine business, we support customers across a global footprint.

 

Ready to join us?

If you are an experienced site leader with strong health and safety credentials and a passion for driving excellence across multiple project environments, we’d love to hear from you.