Site Agent - Highways
4 days ago
Middleton
Location: North West Contract: Permanent Salary: £60-£70k p/a DOE We are looking for an experienced Site Agent to join a major highways project, taking responsibility for the safe and efficient delivery of key packages including pavements, street lighting and earthworks. The successful candidate will have a strong background delivering major highways schemes, ideally with previous National Highways experience, and will be confident managing programme, subcontractors, site teams, quality and health & safety. • Manage day-to-day construction activities across the highways project, • Oversee pavement and carriageway construction packages, • Manage street lighting works and associated interfaces, • Coordinate and oversee earthworks, including excavation, cut/fill and formation works, • Manage subcontractors, engineers, supervisors and site operatives, • Drive works against the construction programme, identifying delays and implementing recovery measures, • Produce and manage short-term lookahead programmes, • Monitor progress against key milestones and contractual dates, • Coordinate labour, plant, materials and subcontract resources, • Ensure works are delivered safely and in accordance with approved RAMS, • Ensure quality requirements, inspections, testing and ITPs are completed correctly, • Manage technical queries, site constraints and construction interfaces, • Coordinate with designers, temporary works teams, utilities and other project disciplines, • Attend progress, programme and coordination meetings, • Maintain accurate site records and progress reporting, • Work closely with the Project Manager and commercial team to monitor progress, change and potential delays, • Ensure works comply with project specifications and client requirements, • Maintain a strong focus on health, safety, environmental and quality standards, • Proven experience working as a Site Agent on major highways or infrastructure projects, • Previous National Highways project experience, • Strong knowledge of pavements / carriageway construction, • Experience managing street lighting packages, • Strong earthworks experience, • Excellent programme management and planning capability, • Experience managing multiple subcontractors and work packages, • Good understanding of RAMS, ITPs, temporary works and construction quality requirements, • Strong leadership and communication skills, • Able to manage interfaces between civil engineering, utilities and specialist subcontractors, • HNC/HND or Degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent experience, • SMSTS, • CSCS, • Temporary Works experience/qualification advantageous This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced highways Site Agent to join a major infrastructure project with responsibility for several key delivery packages. #J-18808-Ljbffr