I am an experienced ground worker with strong supervisory and organisation skills within residential and commercial projects, I have experience in a wide range of locations across the Midlands and London within the fresh water industry. I am keen to find a permanent contracted role within a progressive organisation in return I can offer hard work, reliability and commitment. Construction professional with valuable experience of large corporate construction sites, as well as residential voids and home repair projects.
Work history
Groundworks ganger
Stave-Con groundworks
Wolverhampton , United Kingdom
08 2024 - Current
managing a team of groundworkers in constructing house bases and garage bases of upto 400 units for Vistry Homes, Excavating and pouring footings to receive substructure brickwork, istallation of internal and external drainage along with utility services, constructing driveways and footways around property and topsoiling garden areas to handover as a complete package for the next stage of the build.
Managed crew members for efficient project completion.
Enforced compliance to company policies for a disciplined workforce.
Maintained clean and hazard-free work environment for accident prevention.
Conducted daily briefings, maintained high team morale.
Encouraged safe working practices amongst staff to minimise accidents on site.
Maintained high levels of site health and safety, consistently wearing correct protective equipment for [Task].
Project Manager
MV Kelly
Birmingham , United Kingdom
08 2023 - 08 2024
managing a team of groundworkers in constructing house bases and garage bases of upto 400 units for David Wilson Homes, Excavating and pouring footings to receive substructure brickwork, istallation of internal and external drainage along with utility services, constructing driveways and footways around property and topsoiling garden areas to handover as a complete package for the next stage of the build.
managed gangs to carry out groundworks to plan on residential projects
breifed workers daily on program of works to carried out
controlled and ordered materials to site to progress construction
carried out weekly plant checks and timesheets
liased with PC to keep ahead of program
carried out RAMS and safety breifing
Site Supervisor
M&J Evans
Birmingham, United Kingdom
08 2022 - 08 2023
managing a team of groundworkers in constructing house bases and garage bases of upto 400 units for Orbit Homes, Excavating and pouring footings to receive substructure brickwork, istallation of internal and external drainage along with utility services, constructing driveways and footways around property and topsoiling garden areas to handover as a complete package for the next stage of the build.
supervised groundworks on a residential build site
breifed RAMS andtoolbox talks
carry out quallity control on workers tasks
recorded daily works in site diary
completed timesheets and inductions
ordered materials to be used on site
carried out plant checks
Ganger/ Grroundworker
Shannonside Civil Engineering
Birmingham, United Kingdom
08 2019 - 08 2022
managing a team of groundworkers in constructing house bases and garage bases of upto 400 units for Vistry, Taylor Wimpey David Wilson and Barratt Homes, Excavating and pouring footings to receive substructure brickwork, istallation of internal and external drainage along with utility services, constructing driveways and footways around property and topsoiling garden areas to handover as a complete package for the next stage of the build.
worked as lead ganger carrying out groundworks on a residential site
excavating footings
laying concrete foundations and floors
installing internal and external drainage soloutions
constructing footpaths
general oversiting
operating machinery and power tools
Groundworker
Paul John Construction
Leicester , United Kingdom
05 2018 - 08 2019
excaving footings
laying concrete foundations and concrete floor installation
installing internal and external drainage
constructing driveways and footpaths
general oversiting and topsoiling
Education
Gcse - English Maths Science French
Great Barr GM School
1990 - 1995
Skills
smsts
360 machine operator
forward tipping dumper operator
Power floated concrete
Concrete pouring
Traffic management
drainage installation
tarmacing
excavating footings
topsoiling
installation of gas water and electric infrastructure
manhole construction
kerb laying
locating utillities
Affiliations
SMSTS site management
Taylor Wimpey Groundworks Conversion
Level 3 NVQ Diploma occupational work supervision
Level 2 NVQ Plant Operations and transporting loads
NPORS 360 Above and below 10 t
NPORS Forward tipping dumper
Abrasive wheels
manual handling
Locating utilities
Additional Information
Previous to my career in the residential and commercial groundworks i worked in many utility roles alongside Severn Trent Water, South Staffs Water and Thames Water. i was carrying foul water repairs in carriageways and customers properties in a reactive capacity. I also worked on the fresh water networks providing reactive maintenance on all diameters of pipe lines also installing new assets. For Thames Water we was carrying out trunkmain maintenance in deep excavations also installing some of the largest PRV systems on there network i was in this role 8 years prior to roles listed in my history.