Contract Agent

**Contract Agent**
**Working Pattern: 42.5 hrs per week - Monday to Friday**
**Location: Blyth, Nottinghamshire**

Via is currently looking for a Contract Agent to join our Construction Delivery Team based at our Blyth Depot in Nottinghamshire.

You will manage the delivery of highway and civil engineering construction works, ensuring that works are delivered to specification, financial and time targets, safely and efficiently.

**The Job**
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- Evaluate, interpret, and asses, construction information to enable direct reports and subcontractors to delivery works.
- Continually assess health, safety and environmental risks, for projects and works

Effectively control or reduce expenditure and maximise income, on projects and works under your control.
- Actively use and share your training and experience, with colleagues and employees under your control.
- Continually evaluate working practices, resource use and deployment across your teams, works and projects.
- Develop detailed plans and programmes from design and pre-construction information, to document and communicate a clear, efficient sequence of delivery.
- Manage the allocation, operation and use of vehicles and plant by you and your team to ensure legal compliance, operational best practice, reduction of risk and cost to the business.
- Complete and ensure completion by others, site records and information, manual and electronic, are maintained before, during and after works, to comply with quality and environmental management systems, codes of practice, legislation and industry best practice.

**The Person**
Mainly you will be excited to be a vital part of our Construction Delivery Team, but there are just a few other things we’d like from you:
- Hold Industry recognised qualifications; New Roads and Street Works Act, Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme, Temporary Works Co-ordinator Certificate

Knowledge and experience of health, safety and environmental regulations.
- Detailed knowledge of construction plant and materials used in civil engineering and highway maintenance works.
- Experience in project management and planning of construction and maintenance, works and projects.
- Experience of cost control and financial management across projects and works to £0.5m each, including management and recording of income and expenditure.
- Full current driving licence.

**About Via**

Based in Nottinghamshire, with a multi-skilled local workforce and a range of highly trained staff at a few different locations throughout the county. Via East Midlands provides sustainable highways services for Nottinghamshire and across the wider East Midlands region.

Our roles include highway maintenance, electrical works, mechanics, construction, forestry, road safety, civil engineering and much more. We combine a public-sector service ethos with a strong commercial focus, and we are passionate about innovation and creating and delivering sustainable solutions safely across Nottinghamshire and the wider East Midlands.

Via is a great place to work if you value work-life balance and we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies, including generous annual leave allowances, with flexible working available to our office-based staff. With most of our work being based in the East Midlands, our front-line staff also enjoy short journeys to site each working day.

By joining us you will be part of a growing organisation that positively embraces customer and community aspirations.

If this sounds like you, it would be great to hear from you.

Pay: £37,000.00-£39,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Please indicate your salary expectations
- Do you have a valid UK Driver Licence?

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person