Surfacing Supervisor
Permanent, Full Time
Location: Merrow Highways Depot, Guildford, with occasional travel to London or other sites as workloads require.
We’re looking for an experienced Surfacing Supervisor to lead on-site delivery across the Surrey highways surfacing contract. You’ll manage crews, drive safety and quality, keep programmes on track, and support cost control and KPI reporting. This role is pivotal in improving communication and delivery standards as the contract enters its final improvement phase.
Job description
As a Surfacing Supervisor, you will manage all operational aspects of surfacing works, ensuring full compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements. You’ll plan and resource daily and night-time operations, supervise operatives, liaise with clients and stakeholders, and maintain accurate digital and paper records.
You will take ownership of proactive safety management, champion a “Right First Time” approach, and embrace digital tools to improve communication and reporting. You’ll also support commercial controls, capture changes on site through photos and documentation, and contribute to final measures, sign-offs, and KPI submissions.
Key responsibilities
- Lead safety on site: Deliver briefings and toolbox talks, communicate safety bulletins, and drive near-miss and positive intervention reporting. Ensure compliance with company HSE policies, pre‑construction plans, RAMS, and sector requirements.
- Manage programmes and resources: Coordinate day and night shifts, plant, and materials to meet programme and budget objectives; pre‑measure sites and plan tonnages with the foreman.
- Assure quality: Maintain Sector 16 compliance (including temperature checks and daily laying records), control levels, profile, and tolerances, and embed a “Right First Time” mindset.
- Maintain site records: Complete and submit daily record sheets, including traffic management, plant and vehicle checks, defects, sweeping, laying records, waste transfer notes, site inductions, utilities/overhead cables, guarding and coning, and working hours.
- Promote digital ways of working: Use company systems and digital tools to enhance reporting, communication, and workflow.
- Client and stakeholder liaison: Attend pre‑site meetings, agree methods of working, develop strong professional relationships, and provide effective after‑sales support and feedback.
- Commercial support and change control: Assist with cost monitoring and final accounts; capture changes (e.g. DSRs and photographs), ensure timely final measures and client sign‑off, and submit complete site records promptly.
- KPI reporting: Provide monthly data, including exposure hours, planing tonnages, waste, and vehicle/plant information for carbon footprint reporting.
- Team leadership: Mentor apprentices and new starters, work closely with multiple crews, and ensure plant security and defect reporting.
Essential skills and requirements
- Experience supervising surfacing programmes, with strong people leadership and client communication skills.
- Proven implementation of health and safety on site, including RAMS and method statements, with a proactive safety culture and familiarity with Sector 16 requirements.
- Ability to manage resources, monitor delivery‑related cost and value, and handle change control and fluctuating workloads.
- Strong quality focus and attention to detail, with accuracy in measurements, levels, and records.
- Good digital and administrative skills, including confidence using company systems and digital reporting tools, and maintaining accurate records.
- CSCS Supervisor Level 3 or above, First Aid, and SSSTS (Site Safety Plus).
- Full UK driving licence.