Site Manager

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Do you have experience as a Site Manager, Construction Project Manager or Clerk of Works? Can you deliver transformative works in a live Museum environment?

About us

The Science Museum Group (SMG) is here to inspire futures. As the world’s leading group of science museums, we share our unparalleled collection spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine with over five million visitors each year.

In 2025, the National Railway Museum celebrates 50 years of being open to the public. To commemorate these momentous occasion, the Vision 2025 Masterplan seeks to deliver a programme of upgrades to both the National Railway Museum in York and sister museum, Locomotion, at Shildon.

Our programme is made up of a series of projects with an overall budget of £60.7 million and is known as the Vision 2025 Masterplan. This coincides with the transformation of the underused land around the museum in York by the York Central Partnership, aiming to power York’s economy into the future.

About the role

We are looking for a Clerk of Works to join the Estate team across our sites in York and Shildon. As a client-side representative working in the best interests of the Museums, you will play a key role in overseeing standards and performance of Masterplan, Estates Capital and Maintenance projects.

Supporting our Vision 2025 Masterplan programme, alongside major capital renewal and maintenance activity, you will lead a cohesive approach to delivery and help optimise outcomes.

Ensuring that projects are delivered to the agreed drawings, specification and schedule, you will also coordinate site logistics and access whilst liaising with relevant stakeholders. Along with site inspections, you will manage contractors ensuring that they are compliant, whilst reviewing RAMS and permits for work. You will also advise internal colleagues on standards, guidance and legislation.

About You

You have experience at craft or technician level in construction or civil engineering and experience in a Site Manager, Clerk of Works or site supervisory role. Naturally leading with a health and safety focus, you are able to manage major building works and other minor projects, with experience of undertaking surveys, audits and site testing and a sound knowledge of non-domestic building works in live environments.

With great interpersonal, spoken and written communication skills, you have strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively work across a wide range of colleagues and professionals.

Please apply via our website: https://ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=7552338HgN&WVID=7271880URt&LANG=USA

What we offer

Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; a support with personal and professional development; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; and enhanced support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness and career breaks.

’Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.

We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.