Sub Agent; Package Manager

About

The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has an opportunity for a Sub-Agent to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17 km of complex high-ways construction, complex utility diversions, and an industry-leading approach to carbon reduction.

As a Sub-Agent, you will support the Design Engineering team in delivering projects related to the Lower Thames Crossing programme.

• Develop a safe working culture compliant with health and safety regulations, best practice, and the BB 4 Golden Rules; conduct weekly safety tours and ensure corrective actions are closed.
• Produce fully resourced stage programmes, ensuring required resources are in place and trained before work commences.
• Oversee, advise and coach Section (Senior Production) Engineers in engineering and lean production best practices; arrange training as needed for all engineers on the package.
• Lead the quality management process, establish required standards, and ensure the project team – foremen, engineers, and subcontractors – understand specification and reporting requirements.
• Liaise with the communications team to keep stakeholders and the public informed in line with the communications plan and DCO requirements.
• Ensure compliance with the Environmental Management Plan and carbon targets; approve related documentation and integrate environmental and carbon considerations into site inspections.
• Support pre-award and pre-start meetings for subcontract works, train Site and Section Engineers on the requisition and logistics process and monitor their compliance.
• Ensure handover deliverables – construction certificates, redlines, O & B manuals, and H&S files – are incorporated into the stage programme.
• Manage and mentor Section Engineers, Site Engineers and Apprentices; set individual targets, communicate performance expectations, and oversee onboarding and off-boarding.

• Engineering or construction management qualification.
• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably on large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience with NEC 3/4 contracts.
• Knowledge of construction regulations and best practices.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Full UK driver’s licence.
• Fit-for-work medical.
• CSCS card.
• BPSS security clearance.

• Negotiated salary.
• 25 days annual leave (pro-rated).
• Pension and share-incentive plan.
• Family-friendly leave policies – 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption and 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Volunteer leave and recognition schemes.
• Discounts and exclusive offers for staff.

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.