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My client a Major civil engineering and Build Contractor is seeking an experienced Site Agent to work on a prestigious civil engineering project in the yorkshire region.
The client has been established for over 40years’ within the Construction sector working on multi discipline schemes across the country consisting of: Highways, Structures and Environemntal, maintaining a strong pipeline of work with a low staff turnover.
Key Responsibilities
- Participates in compiling the initial programme and have a full awareness of weekly targets
- Plans and oversees the site setup, ensuring that the appropriate facilities are in place prior to the project launch
- Manages the relationship with the sub-contractors while working onsite
- Takes ownership for ensuring that HSEQS protocols are adhered to on sites at all times
- Maintains quality control procedures at all times
- Ensures that the TWR is in place and is up to date
- Drives the pace of the project and plans the work in the field
- Coordinates and priorities the sequence of activities on site
- Manages a team of foremen and other site staff
- Ensures that all employees adhere to appropriate protocols in the event of an incident onsite.
- Able to relate company commercial strategy to own activities
- Operates the site on a holistic ‘cradle to grave’ project management approach.
- Be able to communicate the site requirements to the commercial team and achieve the most economical reasonable solution bearing in mind commercial constraints
- Drive the project programme
- Manage information and record of relevant contemporaneous records
- Follows the PEP as a means of ensuring that work is carried out on time and on budget
Experience & Skills
- Strong People Management experience
- Knowledge of good industrial relations practices
- Ability to communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally and able to alter style and method to suit audience
- Strong people skills and able to manage a variety of subcontractor supervision
- Experience of leading others and track record of delivering medium to large scale projects.
- Ability to prioritise and make prompt decisions in the interests of the project
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all the trades required on site, codes of practice relating to them and their specific requirements
- Experience building credibility with contractors by treating them with respect
