Contracts Agent

4 weeks ago

Bath, United Kingdom VolkerWessels Full time

**The Role**:
All great things start somewhere, and here at VolkerWessels UK they start with you. We're looking for capable, down-to-earth people with an appetite for exciting challenges.

Within our VolkerHighways business we are currently looking for a Contracts Agent to join our team working on our term maintenance contract with Bath and North East Somerset council.

As the Contracts Agent you will assist the Project Manager, providing direction to teams to ensure the successful delivery of term maintenance projects.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Build, develop, support, and maintain the team.
- Build and maintain a good relationship with the client and all external parties.
- Monitor progress with up-to-date programmes so that timely clear direction can be given to the team on critical contract/financial targets.
- Development, Management and Maintenance of Site Management Plan.
- Identify and evaluate risks, determine, and manage actions, maintain Risk Register.
- Manage and control changes to scope, requirements, personnel etc.
- Monitor progress against cost plans, programmes, and quality/environmental plans.
- Manage stakeholder engagement.
- Develop and protect our subcontractor relationships.
- Prepare and present project reports.
- Liaise with line management re: approvals and decisions at key stages.
- Prepare and maintain project information.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Proven technical and project management abilities
- Strong organisational and management skills
- Knowledge of the requirements and implementation of CDM regulations
- Ability to produce Work Package Plans, Task Briefing Sheets, and implement safe systems of work
- Detailed knowledge of Safety, Quality and Environmental issues relevant to the project environment
- Sufficient experience required in construction.

**Other**:

- A competitive salary plus excellent benefits package including healthcare, pension etc.
- Family friendly policies in place and some scope for flexible working by negotiation.

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of equality, diversity and inclusion. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

**About Us**:
VolkerHighways is an integrated highways service provider operating across London and the South of England. Our goal is to deliver the best highways solutions within our industry through efficiency, responsibility and a focus on clients and their customers.

Our services include highways term maintenance, street lighting and electrical services, surfacing, traffic management and public realm infrastructure projects. We also offer Smart City services, through VolkerSmart Technologies.

We help clients to focus on their customers' needs; using highways solutions based on safety, resident and business needs, asset management and asset improvement.

Our repeat business is testament to the valued services we deliver, through a culture of cooperation and partnership. We bring industry best practice and innovation to our clients by taking a leading role in the civil engineering industry and sharing in the expertise of our wider VolkerWessels UK group.

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