Site Agent

**Site Agent**
- 28 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Private health care
- Company car/ car allowance and fuel card
- Employee discount platform
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

Milestone Infrastructure is currently looking to recruit a Site Agent to work on our projects based in and around Oxfordshire.

As a Site Agent, you will be part of Milestone Infrastructure's Projects Sector team who are responsible for the delivery of a variety of civil engineering projects.

Milestone Infrastructure (formally Skanska Infrastructure Services) has been delivering civil engineering projects in Oxfordshire since 2014. Over time, we have seen the value, complexity and scope of these projects increase and become more diverse. You will be joining a well established project delivery team and be part of the projects delivery team with interfaces including Network Rail, National Highways, Oxfordshire Network Management team and many other key stakeholders.

**As the Site Agent your duties & responsibilities will be**:

- Lead associated site team including Milestone supervision and subcontractors to successful completion of works
- Monitor site activities against target programmes reporting exceptions in outputs, delays etc.;
- Complete all activities with diligence and energy to maximise the time spent on site planning and supervising works
- Ensure adequate records are maintained through site photographs, daily diaries and as built drawings;
- Carry out daily site briefings and supervise sub-contractor task briefings;
- Monitor all works activities to ensure the they meet the Works Specification and are being delivered in a safe manner following the principles of Injury Free Environment (IFE);
- Attend client meetings to provide them with a delivery update and manage any adverse issues.
- Write and maintain contract programme
- Formal communications to clients and subcontractors including but not limited to Early Warnings, and instructions.
- Assist in the tendering of works including evaluation and selection of sub-contract packages;
- Take ownership for safety and environmental compliance for your depot and ensure all identified actions are closed out within their timescale

**Skills & Knowledge Requirements**
- A good level of experience in civil engineering and workforce supervision including earthworks; drainage and structures in a highways and/or a rail environment
- A good level of commercial acumen to facilitate cost control;
- Effective team management, leadership and influencing skills to get the best from everyone;
- Excellent customer skills and the ability to demonstrate influencing in all situations;
- The ability to drive excellent relationships with contacts at all levels including the client, colleagues and members of key stakeholders;
- The ability to remain flexible in your approach to the role whilst embracing change and helping to drive that change through;
- Experience of working on NEC3 contracts including the mechanisms for notifications.
- Excellent communication skills - verbal and written - to ensure clarity in all situations and to effectively influence client decision making
- Highly organised and able to juggle priorities, whilst multi-tasking for many stakeholders, and still remaining focussed on what’s most important

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

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 17321