Shropshire Senior Project Manager scoops top national industry award
A Shropshire Senior Project Manager has scooped a top national industry award for building the best quality new homes in Britain.
Kirk Raine has been awarded the Pride in the Job Supreme Award for his outstanding work at David Wilson Homes’ Doseley Park development in Telford.
He won the Supreme Award in the Large Builder category of the Pride in the Job campaign run by the National House Building Council (NHBC), beating competition from more than 16,000 Site Managers throughout Britain.
Originally from Stone, Kirk has been working for David Wilson Homes Mercia for 11 years. He started out his construction career as a bricklayer, progressed to become a Site Manager in 2000 and is now a Senior Project Manager.
Kirk has previously won nine NHBC Pride in the Job Awards, six Seal of Excellence Awards, four Regional Awards and now two Pride in the Job Supreme Awards.
The awards are the most coveted in the industry and are given after inspectors from NHBC – the industry’s watchdog body – carry out a series of site inspections to select the best-organised and best-built housing developments in Britain. Site managers are judged on every aspect of their job including technical skill, quality workmanship, customer service and site safety.
Kirk said: “I’m extremely honoured to have been given the NHBC Supreme Award, it’s a privilege. This has been an enormous team effort and I would like to thank the whole site team and my directors for their support.
“As a team, we take a great amount of pride in the high levels of quality and service we deliver for our customers at Doseley Park and we’re proud to be a five star homebuilder.
“It’s great to see the work Site Managers do being recognised and I feel honoured to be part of such a great company. The team at Doseley Park work very hard to create great quality homes for our customers and it is wonderful to be recognised for this.”
David Wilson Homes’ parent company, Barratt Developments, is the only major national housebuilder to have achieved the maximum five star rating for eleven consecutive years.
Dominic Harman, Managing Director at David Wilson Homes Mercia, said, “We pride ourselves on our high standards of housebuilding but this applies to our staff as well, who we work with very closely.
“By employing excellent team players, we can ensure that our trademark high quality is maintained across all of our sites and Kirk is certainly no exception here. We would like to congratulate him on this fantastic achievement.”
