Site Team Leader

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Base pay range:
Salary: £33,000-£36,000 | Full-time | West Yorkshire Based | Lead from the Front.

We’re looking for a high-level bricklayer ready to step up, lead a small site team, and deliver top-quality work every day. As workload grows across premium residential and structural projects, we’re strengthening site leadership.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 1-3 operatives or subcontractors.
• Deliver clean, efficient, on-time work.
• Set scopes, raise issues early, and keep the job flowing.
• Apply our S.E. model:
  Safe. Effective. Ethical.
• Support the Production Leader with admin, materials, checklists.
• Mentor junior team members.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience as a bricklayer, with leading small teams.
• Level 2 Bricklaying qualification (required).
• Strong working knowledge of pointing, brick/block/stonework, lime mortar and heritage techniques, lintels, steelwork, padstones, foundations, DPC levels, insulation.
• Able to read drawings, set out, and lead to programme.
• Comfortable using digital tools (spreadsheets, photo logs, scopes).
• Clear communicator – confident in meetings and with clients.
• Highly organised and proactive – not waiting to be told what’s next.
• Committed to upholding safety, quality, and time standards.

What We’re Looking For:

• Show pride in being the most prepared person on site.
• Don’t accept last-minute chaos.
• Lead by example.

Preparation is Everything – we value team leads who treat the job like it’s theirs:

• Arrive early and start sharp.
• Check plans the night before.
• Plan materials and check access before it’s an issue.
• Use your time and your team’s time well.
• Think ahead, solve problems early, and finish strong.

Professional Development – we actively invest in our team:

• Ongoing CPD and upskilling available.
• Learn advanced structural systems (Helifix, retaining walls, reinforcement).
• Progression to Production Leader or technical specialist.
• Leadership development pathway.

Pay & Compensation:

• £33,000-£36,000 salary depending on experience.
• Company pension | Uniform & PPE provided.
• Flexible working when appropriate.
• Based from BD10 office (Bradford), covering Yorkshire.

Don’t Apply If:

• You wait to be told what to do.
• You turn up unprepared and make a plan on arrival.
• You run a messy site because ‘it’s a building site’.
• You don’t want to lead or improve.

Apply Now – Submit your CV + COVER LETTER by January 30th 2026, 5PM.

Show us how you prepare. Show us what you’ve led.

We’re qualifying hard – A Players only.

PS:
Agencies, we know you mean well, but we’ve got this.