Yorkshire site managers clinch top national award

Three site managers from Yorkshire have been named best in the country by the National Housebuilder’s Council (NHBC), in the latest round of its Pride in the Job awards.

Matt Earnshaw from the Longfields development in Beverley, Ben Forster from Mowbray View in Thirsk and John Firth from Wilberforce Park in Pocklington, are all site managers for Vistry Yorkshire, which comprises the Bovis Homes and Linden Homes housebuilding brands. 

At a recent NHBC awards lunch, all three clinched a coveted ‘Seal of Excellence’ award for their exemplary site management skills. Ben Forster was awarded the Seal of Excellence for the second time in as many years. 

The success of the three site managers is not the first honour for Vistry Yorkshire in this year’s Pride in the Job awards, however. 

Last month, another Vistry Yorkshire site manager, Nick Robinson, was honoured with the same Seal of Excellence award for his own high quality site management. Like Ben Forster, it’s the second time in as many years that Nick has received a Seal of Excellence award. Nick is a senior site manager at Linden Homes’ Bracebridge Manor development, just outside Lincoln.

All four Vistry Yorkshire site managers had already won an NHBC Quality Award in an earlier stage of this year's awards process and fended off competition from more than 11,000 site managers from across 11 UK regions to secure their Seal of Excellence accolades.

Vistry Yorkshire’s regional managing director, Scott Stothard said: “I’m delighted to see not just one but four of our site managers gain top industry recognition in this year’s Pride in the Job awards. 

The daily commitment and drive they show to help us deliver excellence for our customers is fantastic and they should be extremely proud, as we all are at Vistry Yorkshire, of their incredible work.”

The NHBC’s Pride in the Job awards celebrates site managers who have achieved the very highest standards in house building. It is the most highly regarded competition in the house-building industry and a 'prestigious benchmark' for exceptional site managers.

Running for over 40 years, judging for the awards is rigorous with each site manager assessed across six key areas that include consistency, attention to detail, leadership, interpretation of drawings and specifications, technical expertise and health and safety.

Both Bovis Homes and Linden Homes have been awarded five stars for customer satisfaction by the House Building Federation.

 

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