OXFORDSHIRE SITE MANAGER NAMED BEST IN THE COUNTRY FOR QUALITY

A senior site manager at David Wilson Homes’ development The Pavilions in Bodicote has won a top national award for the quality of homes he is building.

Joe O’Sullivan (32), has won a Pride in the Job Quality Award from the National Housebuilding Council (NHBC), marking him down as among the very best in the country.

Across the country, site managers working for David Wilson Homes’ parent company, Barratt Developments, have won 96 Pride in the Job Quality Awards in total this year. This is the 19th year in a row that Barratt Developments site managers have won more of these awards than any other housebuilder.

Joe, who first started with David Wilson Homes in May 2020, Joe has won all three of the Pride in the Job awards he has been nominated for, which is an outstanding achievement.

He said: “Each year, we look out for these awards as they are the pinnacle of site management.

“Our team at The Pavilions has been excellent, and everyone has made a contribution to the high standards at the site. Consistency is key, and it fills us with pride to know that every house we build is of the highest quality.”

The awards rate site managers against key criteria such as technical expertise, health and safety, consistency, leadership and attention to detail. The awards celebrate the vital role site managers play in ensuring new homes are delivered on-time, on safe sites, and to the highest quality standards.

Every site manager who is registered with the NHBC is automatically entered into the awards, with just 450 winners being selected from over 11,000 entrants, showing how difficult they are to win.

These awards follow on from Barratt Developments site manager Kirk Raine being named as the Supreme winner of last year’s NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards. In January, Kirk was crowned as the winner in the Large Builder Category for his work managing The Grove at Doseley Park, near Telford. This is the sixth time that a site manager working for Barratt Developments has won the Supreme award in the past eight years.

Dominic Harman, Managing Director at David Wilson Homes Mercia, said: “It’s great news for our customers and the business that Joe has won a prestigious Pride in the Job Quality Award.

“The awards showcase what it takes to be a top site manager and demonstrates our long-term commitment to looking after our customers and building high quality homes. We are very proud to have won more of these awards than any other housebuilder for 19 years in a row now.”

These awards closely follow Barratt Developments being awarded five stars by its customers for satisfaction in the annual Home Builders Federation (HBF) new homes survey. To be rated five star means that more than 90% of its customers would recommend one of its homes to a friend, with David Wilson Homes being the only major national housebuilder to be rated five star for 14 years in a row.

To find out more about any developments in the area, visit the website at David Wilson Homes in Oxfordshire.