Job Title: Site Agent
Location: Leiston, Suffolk
Duration: On going
Contact: Mitchell
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Site Operative Solutions Limited have an excellent opportunity for site agent in Leiston, Suffolk.
This role is working for a tier 1 contractor who are looking for site agent working on a civils project.
Start date: ASAP
Duration: On going
For this role, site agent would be undertaking the following duties:
- Strong, visible, proactive leadership with regards to health, safety, environment and quality standards
- Contribute to the achievement of safety targets and zero tolerance of unsafe working practices and occurrences
- To establish and implement site systems and controls consistent with company standards and project requirements
- To ensure the production and communication of risk assessment and methods statements to the site supervision
- Support and endorse behavioural Safety programme and the use of hazard and good practice observation reporting (or Customer led initiatives similar to above where required)
- Support staff and frontline workers’ health and wellbeing
Programme and Production
- Contributing to the value engineering and buildability of the project Agreement of programmes and methods of construction with Planner and other appropriate production personnel
- Ensuring that resource requirements, production outputs, overhead targets and are established, monitored and controlled.
- Carry out constructive analysis of fully resourced programme and ensure production of operational target programmes to reflect the overall contract programme
- Lead on short term planning and dissemination of short-term programmes to the site team and supply chain
Operational Excellence
- Leadership and management of a team
- Organisation of resources for the overall control and execution of the works including the selection of sub-contractors to carry out the works where necessary
- To secure materials and plant necessary to meet specifications and planned programme of work. Manage wastage and allowances of materials
- Ensure that RAMS, ITPs, MARs are signed off before any work commences. Ensure all testing regimes are in place and work inspection requests and check sheets are implemented and adhered to
- Manage all permitting and approvals
- Identify temporary works requirements and produce or manage the production of detailed and accurate temporary works designs and safe implementation
- Ensure project quality standards and handover requirements are met. Ensure non-conformance reports are produced, investigated and closed out in timely manner
Experience/Knowledge:
- Considerable experience in Civil Engineering, with strong technical knowledge. Demonstrable experience with the construction of all elements of highways works
- Knowledge of the requirements and implementation of CDM Regulations
- Good knowledge of specifications and testing regime relevant to general civil engineering / specification for highway works
- Ability to produce RAMS, Task Briefing Sheets, and safe systems of work. Knowledge of Safety, Quality and Environmental systems
- Experience of managing a small team using own initiative. Good organisational skills
All site agent on this project must have:
- Degree/HNC/HND in civil engineering or similar
- Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers or equivalent desirable
- IOSH Managing Safely
- SMSTS and CSCS Card
- Temporary Works Supervisor / Coordinator desirable
- First Aider, Fire Marshall desirable
- Fit for work medical (or safety critical medical) desirable
Rates & Shift pattern:
£400 - £450 per day (Mon - Fri, 07:30 to 17:30)
Interested? Please apply now with your CV or contact the SOS Recruitment team to discuss further.