Site Agent

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An opportunity has arisen for a Site Agent to join the team at Galliford Try within our Infrastructure Clean Water Environment Business in Yorkshire.

Ideally, you will be based in or around the West Yorkshire area and will have the opportunity to travel across multiple sites/projects in the Region.

In the role of Site Agent, you will be involved in managing project delivery, including finances, safety, and progress. It requires leadership in team management and professional interaction with clients.

• Assuming responsibility for the management of project delivery outputs including programme, financial position, health safety, environmental performance, and progress for all allocated schemes.
• The ability to manage staff at varying levels, providing leadership, staff development and retention of key personnel.
• The ability to interact in a professional manner with senior representatives of our clients.
• Responsible for the daily management of multiple concurrent projects to ensure the successful delivery of the project against the project KPI’s
• Ensuring that all projects are delivered in accordance with current Health & Safety regulations, CDM (Construction, Design and Management), & Environmental legislation.
• Review/assessment of in-house/subcontractor RAMS (Risk Assessments and Method Statements), Process Impact Assessments and Environmental legislation.
• To ensure compliance with all company safety, environmental and quality systems.
• Liaise with client’s staff to ensure KPI’s are met or exceeded within budget constraints
• To assume responsibility of the financial performance of each project with overall responsibility for Profit/Loss on contracts undertaken
• To ensure compliance with all company commercial and financial procedures.
• To develop in conjunction with the project planner a detailed project programme ensuring that it is maintained to drive the project to key deliverable milestones.
• Ascertain preliminary and detailed design/project requirements and solutions
• To closely liaise with other departments, such as tendering and design, to ensure resources are correctly allocated and client requirements are fully achieved.
• Co-ordinate and liaise with suppliers, specialist sub-contractors, in-house functions, site installations and construction teams
• Procurement of plant, materials, and specialist subcontractors.
• Attend internal and external review and progress meetings
• Attend site visits/meetings.
• To ensure all contract documentation such as, “As built” drawings, Commissioning Manuals and Operation and Maintenance Manuals are prepared in line with the client specifications and Galliford Try /client closeout timescales

• An industry applicable ONC/HNC/B.Eng. or NVQ equivalent
• IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety & Health) or CITB (Construction Industry Training Body) 5 Day Site Safety Management (SMSTS (Site Management Safety Training Scheme)),
• CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card
• Demonstrable experience of working within the waste and / or water industries
• Working knowledge of Microsoft packages
• Dedicated team player but also able to work as an individual
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and demonstrate time management to comply with deadlines
• Able to work in a busy environment under pressure
• Excellent communication skills (email/phone/face to face)
• Possess a “can do” attitude and provide to support to other members of the team as required

With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will…