Site Manager

Site Agent/Manager
The Role
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
Site Management

• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of various projects in the Civils and Water sectors
• Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
• When required, lead a team of Sub Agents, Engineers, and Foremen to deliver the work safely without environmental incidents, and to the specified quality.
• Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, and ITP as well as Waste Management Plans, when specified, in line with Company procedures
• Ensure the commercial performance of the contract is maximised
• Produce and manage the project construction programme as well as produce a 2-week look-ahead.
• Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete the tasks

Client interface

• Undertake an ambassadorial role representing the business to customers, the public and official bodies
• Deliver product to customer requirements and satisfaction

Essential:

• 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, including 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
• 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 to ensure the culture is in line with our Company values

Desireable:

• CEng MICE, or equivalent
• Knowledge of Primavera P6 software
• Understanding of JCT and NEC forms of contract

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Company Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• 25 days of annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
• 8 hours volunteering
• Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
• Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/Van (dependent on position)
• Leadership & management training and coaching
• Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
• Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
• Continuous service awards

Tickets/training/certs required:

• SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme) - essential
• CSCS Black / Gold Card - essential
• TWC (Temporary Works Coordinator) - Preferred
• NRSWA Supervisor - preferred

Specific experience required

• Heavy civils experience is essential (e.g. deep drainage)
• Experience within the water sector (clean/waste) is strongly preferred
• Proven ability to manage both direct labour and subcontractors
• Sound planning understanding
• Sound commercial awareness and understanding of NEC