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**Contract Agent**

**Working Pattern: 42.5 hrs per week - Monday to Friday**

**Location: Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire**

Via currently has a fantastic opportunity to join our Construction and Maintenance Team as an Contract Agent based at our Blyth Depot.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Evaluate, interpret, and asses, construction information including specifications, drawings, plans and material schedules, to enable direct reports and subcontractors to delivery works safely, on time and within budget.
- Continually assess health, safety and environmental risks, for projects and works under your control and activities of the team, to eliminate or reduce the chance of harm or damage.
- Effectively control or reduce expenditure and maximise income, on projects and works under your control, to meet or exceed financial targets; to deliver a positive financial outcome for the business.
- Actively use and share your training and experience, with colleagues and employees under your control, to improve their knowledge, technical skills, potential, performance and value to the company.
- Continually evaluate working practices, resource use and deployment across your teams, works and projects, to achieve maximum quality and efficiency, and lowest cost delivery for the company.
- Develop detailed plans and programmes from design and pre-construction information, to document and communicate a clear, efficient sequence of delivery that is understood and achieved by your team.
- 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.
- Hold Industry recognised qualifications; New Roads and Street Works Act, Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme, Temporary Works Co-ordinator Certificate, CITB SSSTS
- Knowledge and experience of health, safety and environmental regulations and codes of practice relating to civil / highway engineering and construction and able to write and communicate site specific Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
- 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**:
We are a major employer in Nottinghamshire with a multi-skilled local workforce and a range of highly trained staff based at a number of different locations throughout the county. 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 the majority of our work being based in the East Midlands, our front-line staff also enjoy short journeys to site each working day.

Our staff get access to a wide range of benefits. These include an excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, buying and selling of annual leave and much more.

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

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £33,000.00-£39,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus

Work Location: One location