Contracts Agent

**Job Title: Contracts Agent**

**Location: Bath**

**Salary: £55k**

**Job Type: Full Time, Perm**

Our client is rapidly expanding and takes charge in services include highways term maintenance, street lighting and electrical services, surfacing, traffic management and public realm infrastructure projects.

Due to continued growth and expansion, they are looking for a Contracts Agent to join their well-established team in Bath.

The Contracts Agent Role is to ultimately:

- Help Project Manager deliver successful projects
- Build and maintain successful teams
- Maintain personal training and development as example to others
- A Contracts Agent is responsible for a larger project or a number of projects.

**Role Requirements**

**GENERAL**:

- To represent the company in the delivery of projects.
- To manage the delivery of all works in relation to C13246 Schemes, Public Realm, and 3rd Party projects.
- To receive instruction on behalf of the company
- To issue instruction and provide direction in order to ensure the successful delivery of projects assigned by Senior Management.

**CONSTRUCTION**:

- Ensure all project team members align to the principles of CDM and company policy and procedures.
- Be familiar with and observe all relevant statutory provisions applicable to construction and related industries.
- Implement the company’s procedures for dealing with sub-contractors and ensure proper co-operation and co-ordination takes place between the various parties who may share the workplace/site.
- Provide an overall health & safety plan for each site, making an adequate assessment of the risks involved, and ensuring that safe systems of work and method statements are produced, followed, and reviewed.
- Ensure activity and/or substance-specific assessments under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations are made and communicated to those at risk.
- Ensure employees, self
- employed, temporarily employed, and non
- employed trainees/persons have received adequate training and information about the activity they are required to undertake, particularly by ensuring induction is provided for those attending a location for the first time.
- Ensure employees are aware of the company’s policy for health & safety at work and that they have understood its requirements.
- Liaise with others as applicable and support initiatives for health and safety representation.
- Ensure proper protective equipment is provided, maintained, and used.
- Report all accidents and incidents to the appointed health & safety manager, carry out investigations, make recommendations to prevent recurrence and ensure this information is effectively communicated.
- Arrange weekly health & safety planning meetings with the appointed health & safety manager.
- Attend 4 - weekly contract health and safety meetings

**Complete Understanding of all the project objectives.**

Agree project targets with Project Manager for:
- Quality
- Safety
- Programming
- Financial
- Client
- Staff Development
- Read thoroughly all documentation and specifications for the project.
- Understand the tender philosophy, pricing, and programming.
- Attend the tender handover meeting.

**Build, develop, support, and maintain the team**.
- Ensure that all team members are aware of their roles and responsibilities for this specific project.
- Regularly review performance against responsibilities and give feedback both good and bad.
- Develop an environment where all the team members can communicate with one another openly.
- Listen to what the team members have to say and support action by the individual where appropriate.
- Celebrate successes as a team.
- Facilitate when relationships in the team break down and take action.
- Encourage the client to be part of the bigger project team and monitor
- Actively follow the DPR programme and enrol team members to help you succeed.
- Give individual staff development feedback to Project Manager or relevant parties.
- Monitor morale within the team and take correct action, if necessary, with the support of the Project Manager.
- Ensure that staff are continually developing new skills and that complacency and comfort zones are constantly challenged.

**Build and maintain a good relationship with the client and all external parties.**
- Act in a professional manner, appropriate to a representative of the company.
- Work to build strong relationships with the client.
- Promote similar behaviour from each member of your team.
- Constantly manage the client’s expectation.
- Identify customer objectives, ensure regular feedback is collected and that action plans in response to feedback are implemented.

**Monitor progress with up-to-date programmes so that timely clear direction can be given to the team on critical contract/financial targets.**
- Organise regular update meetings with the team to review specific progress on the sections and update the overall strategy if required. Give direction on key