Highways Site Agent

About The Role

Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for an experienced Highways Site Agent to join our Southern region team. You will lead the day‑to‑day delivery of highways construction and maintenance schemes, ensuring work is safe, efficient and completed to the highest technical standards. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a leading role in improving infrastructure for the local communities we serve.

• Leading daily delivery of highways schemes, coordinating subcontractors, engineers and operatives to ensure efficient, high‑quality work
• Managing programmes, resources, cost plans and maintaining accurate site records
• Driving a Zero Harm culture, conducting safety tours, leading incident investigations and ensuring full CDM/H&S compliance
• Ensuring technical compliance across all highways works, overseeing temporary works, materials approvals, handover documentation and quality control processes
• Monitoring budgets and spend, supporting change control and commercial reporting, and tracking KPIs, productivity and operational costs
• Acting as the main point of contact for clients, designers and stakeholders, maintaining effective communication and strong working relationships

• Proven experience as a Site Agent delivering highways civils schemes
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage multidisciplinary site teams
• Excellent understanding of highways construction and safety‑critical activities
• Commercial awareness with experience managing budgets and contractual requirements
• Ability to develop, interpret and interrogate highways work programmes
• Confident communicator and effective problem‑solver
• Strong IT skills including Excel and mobile digital tools
• Full UK driving licence
• SMSTS, NVQ Level 3 or 6, NRSWA Supervisor, and CSCS Supervisor/Manager card
• Safety‑first mindset with commitment to Zero Harm
• Resilient, adaptable and effective in fast‑paced environments
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on quality
• Customer‑focused with excellent stakeholder‑management skills

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long‑term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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. For more info, visit: https://disabil

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