How to hire a senior site manager

How to hire a senior site manager, step by step

Here's a step-by-step senior site manager hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a senior site manager job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new senior site manager
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your senior site manager job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a senior site manager for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

   Determine employee vs contractor status

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   You should also consider the ideal background you'd like them a senior site manager to have before you start to hire. For example, what industry or field would you like them to have experience in, what level of seniority or education does the job require, and how much it'll cost to hire a senior site manager that fits the bill.

   This list presents senior site manager salaries for various positions.

   Type of Senior Site Manager	Description	Hourly rate
   Senior Site Manager	Construction managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from start to finish.	$38-90
   Construction Superintendent	A construction superintendent's role is to oversee all construction plans and operations, ensuring quality completion within a specified timeframe. Some of their responsibilities are to inspect all sites, coordinate with contractors and engineers, manage the budget and expenditure, purchase necessary materials and equipment, and make schedules... Show more	$29-59
   Project Superintendent	The construction or project superintendent's role is to oversee the operations of construction sites, from the planning phase to completion. They have varied duties and responsibilities based on specific projects that include scheduling and budgeting, communicating and negotiating with external partners, and acquiring materials and equipment... Show more	$34-63

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Informed Consent
   • Clinical Trial Management
   • Clinical Trials
   • FDA
   • IRB
   • QA
   • Patients
   • Project Management
   • Site Monitoring
   • Process Improvement
   • Routine Monitoring
   • Direct Reports
   • Safety Reports
   • Lean Six Sigma

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage non-compliance material returns, QA reports and receiving reports resolving any issues quickly and efficiently.
   • Manage computerized time card system including reviewing time cards daily for accuracy to process payroll every week.
   • Provide site management support to ensure adherence to FDA regulations, ICH/GCP, and ISO standards.
   • Participate in the OSHA's VPP program and are instrumental in helping the client gain star status.
   • Assure that all subcontractors are working within OSHA standards for construction, hold weekly meetings for safety, production and documentation.
   • Perform QA reviews of facility and customer installations.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your senior site manager job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A senior site manager can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, senior site managers' average salary in alaska is 76% less than in california.
   • Seniority. Entry-level senior site managers 57% less than senior-level senior site managers.
   • Certifications. A senior site manager with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a senior site manager's salary.

   Average senior site manager salary

   $122,901yearly

   $59.09 hourly rate

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   Entry-level senior site manager salary

   $80,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 20, 2026

   Average senior site manager salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	California	$143,764	$69
   2	Texas	$127,418	$61
   3	Arizona	$120,868	$58
   4	Connecticut	$119,404	$57
   5	Maryland	$115,685	$56
   6	Nevada	$114,370	$55
   7	Pennsylvania	$110,595	$53
   8	Louisiana	$102,178	$49
   9	Rhode Island	$99,893	$48
   10	South Carolina	$99,696	$48
   11	Massachusetts	$99,528	$48
   12	West Virginia	$97,418	$47
   13	Florida	$96,286	$46
   14	New York	$95,416	$46
   15	North Carolina	$93,859	$45
   16	Virginia	$92,523	$44
   17	Georgia	$92,442	$44
   18	Mississippi	$92,406	$44
   19	Alabama	$92,275	$44
   20	Ohio	$87,141	$42

   Average senior site manager salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Walmart	$142,945	$68.72	10
   2	VMware	$140,022	$67.32
   3	Ameresco	$139,233	$66.94	8
   4	Microsoft	$134,351	$64.59	2
   5	Salesforce	$133,360	$64.12
   6	LinkedIn	$129,204	$62.12
   7	Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	$126,244	$60.69
   8	Bristol-Myers Squibb	$123,993	$59.61	3
   9	Nike	$119,530	$57.47
   10	ERM	$118,638	$57.04	21
   11	ModMed	$118,256	$56.85
   12	Parexel International	$117,566	$56.52
   13	Wikimedia Foundation	$117,026	$56.26
   14	Federal Reserve Bank	$116,447	$55.98
   15	Nuance Communications	$115,786	$55.67
   16	Fluor Corporation	$115,618	$55.59	12
   17	UCB	$114,724	$55.16
   18	Amgen	$114,445	$55.02	14
   19	Ricoh	$114,146	$54.88	42
   20	Regeneron	$114,039	$54.83	4

4. Writing a senior site manager job description

   A good senior site manager job description should include a few things:

   • Summary of the role
   • List of responsibilities
   • Required skills and experience

   Including a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager is also appreciated by candidates. Here's an example of a senior site manager job description:

   Senior site manager job description example

   Porch Group is a vertical software company reinventing the home services and insurance industries. Through our family of technology, SaaS, and Insurance companies we are able to offer innovative software and service solutions to more than 28,500 companies, and 350,000 policyholders across the country.
   
   Our mission is to completely transform the way people buy, sell, move, and manage their homes throughout their home journey. Sure, it's a tall order to transform a $320 billion industry, but we're already well on our way. Since we were founded in 2012, we've stuck to our values and our commitment to foster a "No Jerks, No Egos" culture, which is a big reason we've gone from a scrappy startup to a Nasdaq-listed company and the industry-leading partner for the home in less than eight years.
   
   At Porch Group, no two days will ever be the same and you'll have the opportunity to help solve big problems, with a refreshing balance of team support and ownership of your work.
   The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we'd love for you to be a part of it as our Data & Site Reliability Sr. Manager. What You Will Do Lead your team of data, systems, and development operations engineers in designing and implementing improvements to our data/data mart and data computing platforms in partnership with business, analytics, software and data science teams Lead the architecture of our key data platforms by defining and delivering data and system architectures that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization. Collaborate with peers in our group to define a technology roadmap and architectural improvements to our data platform Manage internal team members and external partners to help support day-to-day operations of our data systems and information security initiatives and projects. What You Will Bring Management, Culture & People Skills
   You recognize that your success is intrinsically tied to that of your team, and of your peers. You lead your team, manage their processes, and coordinate their priorities to ensure that we accomplish ambitious goals aligned with our Porch Values. Data platforms
   You know why and when to use SQL, Key/Value, Graph, Document and other data platforms in high-availability & -performance contexts. Design for analytical, transactional, and data- and event-pipeline contexts. Data system design.
   You're familiar with the data architecture needs of modern application development, from the needs of data systems that support RESTful, PubSub, BigData, Data Analytics Pipelines, Caching/Indexing patterns Data storage, search and retrieval optimization
   You know where to focus your efforts to improve performance and efficiency in the full data stack, whether it's physical storage or schema design, logical table definitions, or optimizing document, relational, tabular queries Cloud data architecture.
   You're skilled at building and designing data architectures in at least one of the leading Cloud data platforms. You're skilled at selecting appropriate responsibility models for Infrastructure/Software/Platform as a Service architectures Operations & Security
   You're experienced with multiple operations models, whether its traditional operations, DevOps or SRE. You identify and address information security and data privacy best practices. Skills/Technology Familiarity
   You must either have direct and role-appropriate* context and skills with (or with those similar enough to ramp quickly on) these technologies: BigQuery, Elastic/Solr, Java/JVM/Python/R/Scala, Kafka, Kubernetes, Mongo/DynamoDb/CosmosDb, Neo4J/Aura/Neptune, Postgres/MySQL, Hadoop/HDFS/HBase, Spark What's next? Submit your application below and our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have! Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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5. Post your job

   To find the right senior site manager for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with senior site managers they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit senior site managers who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your senior site manager job on Zippia to find and recruit senior site manager candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   During your first interview to recruit senior site managers, engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. During the following interview, you'll be able to go into more detail about the company, the position, and the responsibilities.

   You should also ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match the ideal candidate profile you developed earlier. Candidates good enough for the next step can complete the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new senior site manager

   Once you've found the senior site manager candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new employee's start date, you can create an onboarding schedule and complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9 forms, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Human Resources should also ensure that a new employee file is created.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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