Sub Agent

**Job type**:Perm**

**Town/City**:Galashiels**

**Location**:Lothian & Borders**

**Salary/Rate**:Up to £50 000 plus bonus, car / car allowance, pension and healthcare**

**Sector**:Civil Engineering**

**Job ref**:VR/0005**

Deanston Cooper's client, a highly successful civil engineering contractor with an exceptionally low turnover of staff, has a current requirement for a **Sub Agent** to work on Scottish Water projects as part of a long-term framework.

**Working on projects in the Borders region, your duties as Sub Agent will include**:

- Driving construction phase of project
- Managing and supervising Site Engineering
- Supervising and monitoring the site labour force and sub-contractors
- Preparing risk assessments and method statements
- Ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are adhered to
- Ensuring quality records necessary to meet quality requirements are maintained
- Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties and other problems that may arise
- Checking drawings and specifications
- Reviewing construction progress and performance
- Planning and prioritising construction resources (labour and plant) to support successful project execution
- Delivering project within programme and budget
- Minimum HNC Civil Engineering
- Experience working at Section Engineer / Senior Engineer / Sub Agent level on a variety of civil engineering projects for another contractor
- Ideally some experience of Scottish Water projects
- Technical ability and good organisational skills
- Ability to focus on targets and practical solutions
- Good communication skills with all levels of the workforce