Site Agent

**The Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Site Management**
- Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of various projects in the Civils and Water sectors
- Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
- When required, lead a team of Sub Agents, Engineers, and Foreman to deliver the work safely without environmental incidents, and to the specified quality.
- Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, RAMS, ITP as well as Waste Management Plans, when specified, in line with Company procedures
- Ensure the commercial performance of the contract is maximised
- Produce and manage the project construction programme as well as produce 2 weeks’ look ahead.
- Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete the tasks

**Client interface**
- Undertake an ambassadorial role representing the business to customers, the public and official bodies
- Deliver product to customer requirements and satisfaction

**Cost control**
- Populate and manage the Barhale cost plan for the project
- Maximise project value
- Ensure detailed site diaries/records are completed
- Maintain commercial tension to drive out cost and challenge the status quo
- Endeavour to spot and highlight value engineering opportunities

**Reporting**
- Produce good quality, accurate monthly reports internally and for the Client
- Chair weekly site meetings in line with Company procedures

**Key measures & targets**:

- Monthly and weekly reporting timescales are met
- Adherence to Business Unit Objectives
- Ensure 3 Pillar KPI and client measures are met

**Key relationships**:

- Customers and stakeholders
- Subcontractors and suppliers
- Site teams and support departments

**Person Specification**:
**Essential**
- Considerable experience in Civil Engineering and as a Site Agent for a contractor, delivering projects in a highly regulated environment.
- Working knowledge of contract conditions, CDM regulations, Design Management, Programme and Risk Management and cost control including forecasting, actual cost, and value reporting
- Good knowledge of specifications and testing regimes relevant to general civil engineering
- Degree/HNC in Civil Engineering, or equivalent
- CSCS Mandatory
- IOSH Managing Safely or SMSTS
- Temporary works Coordinator
- Confined space training
- Excellent communication, people, and team management skills
- Ability to challenge designs and resolve problems to a conclusion
- Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and lead the team to ensure the culture is in line with our Company values
- Ability to demonstrate the right behaviours and motivate and lead the team in line with the Company culture, ensuring high standards of compliance

**Desirable**
- Temporary Works Co-ordinator
- CEng MICE, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Primavera P6 software
- Knowledge of JCT and NEC forms of contract

**Benefits**:
As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes flexible benefits, which provide a range of guaranteed benefits including but not limited to:

- Company car/car allowance
- 5% Company pension contribution
- Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
- Single person’s private medical cover
- Permanent Health Cover

**About Barhale**:
Barhale is one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years’ experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor. Whilst we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several sectors of the construction industry has enabled us to expand our skill set and become one of the largest privately owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.

**What we do**

We provide design, construction and maintenance services to the following sectors.
- Water
- Transport
- Energy
- Built Environment

We also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including
- Tunnelling
- MEICA capabilities
- In-house design
- A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)

**Who we are?**

Barhale operates as a tier 1 partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients. We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances, as well as on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity and Pride.

**Our People**

We employ a direct workforce of over 800 employees nationwide. We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.

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

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 10 hou