Site Agent

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**Site Agent - Environment**

**Thames Water (Greater London & Surrounding Areas)**

**What you will be doing**:
An opportunity has arisen for a Site Agent to join the team at Galliford Try.

You will work on our Thames Water Frameworks within our Environment Business, who are experienced in successfully delivering schemes of varying sizes, predominately to the Water Industry, across both Treatment Waste and Water schemes.

Ideally, you will be based in or around the London area within the Thames Water region and will have the opportunity to travel across multiple sites/projects in the Region.

As a Site Agent, you will take full responsibility for management of your section of works ensuring you meet client and company performance expectations.

Day-to-day, you will be managing a section of works, supervising, and monitoring the site team/supply chain.

It will be your role to plan, control and monitor the progress of the works and coordinate the sections of the project as allocated, managing multiple packages of work in conjunction with the commercial team and taking full ownership of the costs for section of work assigned.

You’ll be a key member of the project delivery team, reporting progress and performance to the Project Manager and assisting in administering the cost forecast, valuation and reporting systems, implementing and attending weekly and monthly site meetings and ensuring the site team and supply chain are working to the latest design information, capturing and managing any changes in scope (operations, commercial, programme or design).

Your role forms an essential link in the supply chain, you’ll attend external meetings as required with clients and stakeholders, building effective relationships, effectively lead and manage direct reports and monitor capability of the team and contractors to undertake current and prospective workloads and report to senior management. You’ll show flexibility, resilience, and the ability to influence and build relationships. Demonstrating strong ethical standards with openness and honesty.

Our Environment Business has entrepreneurism and innovation at its heart. Part of your role as Site Agent will be to identify and assist in introducing new process, techniques and innovations on site, helping to resolve any unexpected technical difficulties and problems that may arise.

At Galliford Try, our aim is to create and maintain an environment where care for our people and those who work with us is our top priority. You’ll be responsible for the Health & Safety of yourself and others, encouraging a safe and collaborative working environment that supports our Health, Safety and Environment culture.

**About You**:
As well as an ability to manage multiple or larger packages of work and to read and interpret data, drawings specifications and schedules, we are seeking individuals with relevant Civil Engineering Experience and strong knowledge of CDM 15 and NEC contract requirements.

Experience in a national and multi-site business or Water Industry experience is desirable, but not essential.

Working on site, we’d like you to have SMSTS, CSCS, TWC and First Aid. However, we will support you in covering any training needs. You’ll have strong IT skills and be fully conversant with the Microsoft suite of packages.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be highly organised and able to prioritise multiple workloads, able to interpret, extract and disseminate works information relating to program of works.

You will also be able to demonstrate the following key attributes;
- Desire to understand and promote the Company purpose, vision, values and culture
- Organised, structured and professional, with a passion for excellence, striving to delivering the best.
- Flexibility, resilience and the ability to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders. Demonstrating strong ethical standards with openness and honest.
- Commitment to the provision of excellent customer service, passionate, committed and enthusiastic in all that you do.
- A self-starter with a can-do attitude and a desire to pick up new challenges. Dedicated to working together to achieve results.

**What We Can Offer in Return**:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re p