Agent

Building a sustainable tomorrow BAM UK & Ireland is currently recruiting for an Agent to join our Roads and Networks team at Hinkley Point C, where you will play a vital role in ensuring technical compliance, delivering high‑quality work, and contributing to overall project success.

Kier is committed to creating a workplace where everyone is empowered to achieve their career goals. Our people are at the heart of our business, using their skills and creativity to provide solutions and services to our clients and customers. We are only able to deliver our business goals because of the commitment and talent of our people working together to a common purpose. The Kier wellbeing strategy has been designed based on employee feedback that mental, physical and financial wellbeing are important to them.

Making Possible

As Agent, your day to day will include:

• Leading and coordinating a team of Sub Agents and Engineers to successfully deliver works in line with approved design specifications, contractual requirements, and agreed project timescales.
• Ensuring effective communication, clear delegation of responsibilities, and high performance across the team.
• Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of Health & Safety policies and quality assurance processes, promoting a strong safety culture on site and ensuring full compliance with company standards and statutory regulations.
• Developing, maintaining, and regularly updating detailed project programmes to effectively plan, monitor, and measure daily and weekly site activities.
• Proactively identifying risks to progress and implementing mitigation strategies to maintain programme targets.
• Managing project costs through effective resource planning, labour allocation, and material procurement, ensuring works are delivered efficiently and within budget constraints.
• Accurately recording and reporting commercial events, including early warnings and compensation events, to support robust commercial management and contractual compliance.
• Building, developing, and maintaining strong working relationships with clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and key stakeholders to foster collaboration, resolve issues proactively, and ensure successful project delivery.

Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing

Promote the wellbeing of your team and ensure that an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought, backgrounds and experience is actively encouraged and achieved.

This profile is not exhaustive. From time to time, you may be required by the company to perform other tasks, which are not included in the above description, but are within your capabilities and, where necessary, training and full support will be given.

What do you bring to the role?

• Hold a degree in civil engineering (or construction related) and working towards becoming a Chartered Member of the ICE or CIOB to support your personal development.
• Have proven knowledge of engineering management systems, quality processes and industry standards used within civil engineering and infrastructure organisations.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and the ability to maintain project documentation.
• Bring an enthusiastic, collaborative approach to teamwork contributing effectively within multidisciplinary engineering and project delivery teams.
• Possess strong commercial awareness and the ability to communicate professionally with clients, stakeholders, and project partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Enrolment onto ILM Level 3 Certificate C&BE plus completion of Nuclear Unit HS&E test or CCNSG Safety Passport.

Desirable:

• Completion of ILM Level 3 Certificate C&BE (within 6 months of start date).
• Plus one of the following; SMSTS IOSH Managing Safely in Construction.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary.
• A wide range of family-friendly policies.
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance.
• 8 % matched pension contributions.
• Private healthcare.
• Life assurance.
• 26 days holiday.
• 2 wellbeing days.
• 1 volunteering day.
• Personal and professional development.

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe. We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Jonathan Schulte, Recruitment Manager, BAM UK&I | Infrastructure, m: 07717 227890 / Email: jonathan.schulte@bam.com.