Site Agent - Huntingdon

Costain are working with Anglian Water on a variety of water projects and have fantastic opportunities for individuals to join our growing delivery team, working predominantly across the Cambridgeshire region.

• Communicate with Key Alliance partners and subcontractors.
• Organise and manage the systems of work for your allocated discipline including management of the relevant supply chain.
• Develop programmes and forecast budgets with the Senior Agent, derive simple indices to assess actual programme and productivity achieved and prepare reports for weekly and monthly reviews.
• Be fully conversant with supply chain contract conditions and responsibilities, manage their works and account measurement with the commercial team.
• Requisitioning resources in a timely manner to ensure that they are correctly specified and readily available so as not to impede the construction programme.
• Reconciliation of planned versus actual resources for compilation of weekly reports and the control and ordering of resources.
• Complete inspection and test plans, risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works ensuring that all necessary documentation are produced in a timely manner.
• Be fully responsible for the overall quality management and assurance of the project, including handover to the client.
• Communicate to the QA any non-conformances.
• Work closely with the QS and Commercial Team to ensure all change, early warnings and issues are captured and communicated in a timely manner. Identify key risks and opportunities. Formulate recovery strategies where possible.
• Manage the budget which includes the production of regular Bottom-Up Forecasts as well as change items.
• Provide leadership in safety, health, and wellbeing across all responsible works.
• Manage, supervise and mentor site and assistant engineers to ensure high levels of engineering control and appropriate records.

• Civil Engineering related qualification (HNC, HND, BSc MSc, BEng, MEng).
• Site Management Safety Training Scheme SMSTS.
• Relevant CSCS Card.
• CPCS Lifting Appointed Person.
• Other relevant training (preferred includes Appointed Person, relevant lifting training, and temporary works co-ordination).
• Understanding of Engineering Principles and extensive technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices.
• Knowledge of construction contract law and forms of contract through formal training.
• Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, Document control system, Primavera software).
• Successful experience at Senior Engineer / Agent level.
• Effective communication skills for interface with members of the public and other stakeholders.
• Current Driving Licence.

• Experience of working on Anglian Water projects in Civils, MEP, MEICA or Testing & Commissioning.
• Experience of Major Projects and working within mixed organisation teams.

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.