Site Agent

4 weeks ago

Plymouth, United Kingdom Costain Full time

We have some fantastic opportunities for 3 Site Agents to join our project in the Southwest where we are a delivery partner on a key infrastructure project. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in one of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today, where you will be responsible for construction at site level.

Position 1 - Working within the pre-construction team, dealing with buildings including HVAC (active and non-active) and MEICA services.

Position 2 - Working with the pre-construction team, dealing with buildings substructure and superstructure including piling, structural steel, cladding and other civils aspects.

Position 3 - Working with the pre-construction team supporting expediting long-lead procurement.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Co-ordination of sub-contractor activities, including chairing regular co-ordination meetings with staff and subcontractors
- Ensuring project documentation is completed for hand-over and Take Over
- Studying drawings and technical documents and raising technical queries for clarification of any conflicting information
- Ensuring Non-Conformance Reports are issued when required
- In liaison with the Site Agent maintain the Site Risk Register
- Ensuring education and training on recognition of hazards and control measures required
- Overall compliance with Health & Safety Legislation, Company Policy and best practice throughout the construction / commissioning process
- Ensuring all site supervisors including subcontractors have adequate training and resources to carry out their roles
- Managing inductions and tool-box talks
- Managing site rules and emergency procedures
- Obtaining and issuing all permits, as required
- Ensuring accurate signing of all site hazards during construction
- Detailed programming of site activities in conjunction with sub-contractors and the site team
- Co-ordination of H&S meetings and site progress meetings
- Ensuring maintenance of all installed plant prior handover

**About you**:
Qualifications:

- Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in a Civil Engineering (or equivalent experience) and vocational training in Engineering
- SMSTS / IOSH
- Member of relevant Professional Institute (desirable but not essential)

Security:

- Current holder of Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance, or willing to obtain security clearance required for role

Technical Experience:

- 3 to 5 years work experience within a similar role with a main contractor in built environment.
- Experience of coordinating design work and supervising subcontracts.
- Experience of NEC Form of Contract and Subcontract
- Understanding of Engineering Principles
- Technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices
- Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, Document control system)
- Relevant CSCS Card

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

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