Site Agent/Manager
The Site Agent will be responsible for managing the construction site to achieve the required project delivery in line with customers' objectives, while maintaining standards of health and safety, quality, environmental impact, and cost control. You will be responsible for delivering various projects to the specified quality, within the required programme, and with maximum commercial performance. The successful candidate will work closely with the Contracts Manager/Project Manager, engineers, and quantity surveyors to ensure that projects are completed in a safe manner whilst customer requirements and expectations are always maintained or exceeded.
Key Responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of various projects in the Civils and Water sectors
- Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
- Lead a team of Sub Agents, Engineers, and Foremen to deliver the work safely without environmental incidents, and to the specified quality when required
- Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, and ITP, and Waste Management Plans, in line with company procedures
- Ensure the commercial performance of the contract is maximised
- Produce and manage the project construction programme, including a 2‑week look‑ahead
- Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources
- Represent the business as an ambassador to customers, the public and official bodies
- Deliver product to customer requirements and satisfaction
- Populate and manage the Barhale cost plan for the project
- Maximise project value and challenge cost assumptions
- Maintain detailed site diaries/records and generate monthly reports internally and for the client
- Chair weekly site meetings in line with company procedures
Qualifications
- Experience of working within Civil Engineering and as a Site Agent for a contractor, delivering projects in a highly regulated environment
- Working knowledge of contract conditions, CDM regulations, Design Management, Programme and Risk Management, and cost control (forecasting, actual cost, and value reporting)
- Good knowledge of specifications and testing regimes relevant to general civil engineering
- Degree/HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent
- CSCS mandatory
- IOSH Managing Safely or SMSTS
- Temporary Works Coordinator certification
- Confined space training
- Excellent communication, people and team management skills
- Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to a conclusion
- Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and lead the team in line with company values
Desirable
- CEng MICE, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Primavera P6 software
- Understanding of JCT and NEC forms of contract
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays and loyalty days
- 8 hours volunteering
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car or green car scheme (dependent on position)
- Leadership and management training and coaching
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support career progression
- Internal and external training opportunities
- Continuous service awards
