Jake Green, Ben Goostrey, Cait Grady and Peter Campbell-Wright have all been awarded NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Award for the North West.
The National House Building Council (NHBC) celebrates the very best UK site managers and their commitment to raising standards in house building.
With only 444 winners selected out of over 8,000 entrants across the UK, the recipients are among the country’s best house builders, and among just 42 winners in the North West.
Judging for the awards is rigorous, with the current competition beginning in July last year.
Each site manager is assessed across six key areas: consistency, attention to detail, leadership, interpretation of drawings and specifications, technical expertise and health and safety.
Thousands of site inspections and meticulous scoring and verifications have taken place to decide the winning site managers.
This is the second year in a row that Jake Green, a father of two from Oldham, has received this award.
Jake, 28, has worked for Redrow for the past six years, after starting our graduate scheme in 2017. It was obvious from the start that the father-of-two was heading for success when he was taken off what should have been a two-year training programme and fast tracked to a promotion after just 11 months.
He was given the role of assistant site manager at 23 and his own site to run at Mulberry Park in Macclesfield. From there he went to Cranberry Gardens in Congleton before being made site manager at Tabley Park in Knutsford, where he’s worked for the past three years.
“I am delighted to win this award for the second time. It is testament to my team’s hard work, dedication and consistency that we have won it two years in a row,” said Jake.
“The culture of the team is excellent. Everyone is working to the same standards from the company’s senior managers to the site management team, site operatives and tradespersons.”
It is Ben Goostrey’s first Quality Award win and the 30-year-old from Congelton ‘couldn’t be prouder’.
Ben, who joined the construction industry in 2016, has been a site manager at Kingsbourne in Nantwich for the past 12 months.
“It’s a big achievement and a very proud moment,” said Ben who joined Redrow as an assistant site manager in January 2020.
“It’s a real team effort and keeping a consistent team on site has helped to keep a high standard of build at every stage. Everyone has great pride in what they do and that shows in the finished product.”
Cait Grady, 34, has worked for Redrow for the past 10 years, initially joining as a member of the interior design team.
Realising her passion lay in construction Cait completed a masters in construction management and switched roles to a project coordinator, before becoming an assistant site manager and then site manager at Redrow’s Chester development – King’s Moat Garden Village.
“It was absolutely the best decision I made, and I wish I had made the jump into construction a lot earlier,” said Cait, who lives in Flintshire with her daughter.
“The job is so fast paced; you are always busy and constantly have to think on your feet to overcome issues on a daily basis whilst trying to maintain a safe and well-presented working site.”
Cait is ‘overjoyed’ to have won the award and pays tribute to the hard work carried out by the whole team on site.
“I have been lucky to be part of the King’s Moat Garden Village team for the last two years,” said Cait.
“My method of working has been heavily influenced by a team that has consistently expected a high-quality output from our trades and pushed best practice on site across all build stages.
The time and effort put in to showcase this site was immense. It took a lot of hard work to ensure the site was set up correctly right from the very beginning. So many aspects are really thought about from the traffic management around the site, right through to the quality execution of design within the build process across all stages from groundworks to handover,” she added.
Peter Campbell-Wright, 30, began his career with Redrow as an apprentice joiner. He soon joined Redrow’s trainee site assistant scheme and received a promotion to assistant site manager.
“I left Redrow for six years and rejoined the team in June last year as a site manager at The King’s Moat development in Chester,” said Peter, who lives in Crewe with his wife and child.
“I’m absolutely elated to have won this award, all the hard work and dedication has paid off. I’m surrounded by a brilliant workforce. My assistant site manager has also been an absolute superstar. I feel we have exacting standards, and our sub-contractors know what standard we expect.”
Jason Newton, managing director for Redrow NW, said: “This award is given to the best site managers in the UK and I’m very proud to say that four of those work for Redrow here in the North West.
“Their hard work, dedication and determination to achieve the highest quality standards has been deservedly recognised; I wish them all the very best for the next round.” Commenting on the awards, Steve Wood, CEO at NHBC said: “It is important we recognise the vital role site managers play in ensuring new homes are delivered on time, on safe sites and to exacting construction quality standards.
“This accolade recognises the best site managers across the UK and celebrates how much all the winners have inspired their teams by going the extra mile to deliver homes of the highest quality.”
The Quality Award winners will now go on to compete for Seal of Excellence and Regional Awards in the autumn, with the national Supreme Award winners unveiled in January 2024.
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