Sub Agent

2 weeks ago


Aberdeen, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
**Job Title**: Sub-Agent (Utilities)

**Location**: Aberdeen

**Project Type**: Energy

**Company**:Balfour Beatty Group

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a **Sub-Agent**to build new futures.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale critical infrastructure projects in Scotland, you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
**What you'll be doing**
**Core**

- Live the Balfour Beatty Values
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities
- Motivate team and manage performance; monitor the competency of team members and undertake training/ coaching as appropriate

**Health Safety & Environmental**

- Reviews Method Statements and Risk Assessments and makes improvements as appropriate
- Lead an Accident / Incident Investigation (HFACS and ‘Four Page Report’)
- Carries out trend analysis and identifies improvement areas from audits and near misses
- Carries out field audits and confirms the sufficiency of control documentation
- Production and implementation of Permits to Work, specifically Confined Space Permits and Hot Works Permits
- Strong understanding of temporary works and timescales for implementation into the works

**Engineering Control**

- Guides & coaches subordinates in technical requirements and techniques of setting out
- Guides and coaches subordinates in resolution of construction issues, drawing on experience and accepted industry best practice

**Quality**

- Ownership of whole process of production, checking and submission of Handover Documentation (Green Files or equivalent)
- Implements systems and processes to support construction of the works in accordance with the specification (eg Materials Approval, NCR, Handover Documentation)
- Carries out trend analysis of the above and identifies improvement areas for non conformance and business improvement
- Carries out Independent Inspections of their own section and of others
- Carries out Site Audits to check works and documentation compliance
- Coachesless experienced staff
- Liaise with designer to resolve technical issues

**Commercial**

- Maintains accurate diary, including dialogue with external organisations (subcontractors)
- Produces a budget from the resourced programme and monitors / reviews weekly costs
- Involved in the procurement of subcontractors
- Manages sub contractors
- Understands cost and value

**Productivity**

- Produces a fully resourced stage programme in the accepted format / software
- Tracks and monitors KPI compliance and recommends improvements to systems to maintain team production
- Establishes monitors of production, translated to graphical form from the Programme to aid understanding of current status and identification of requirements for intervention
- Cross references section programme to three weekly programme and ensures compatibility

**Drafts correspondence to sub contractors, suppliers and Client**
**Who we're looking for**
**Core**

- Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately. Suggests and implements improvements to systems
- Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes with clarity; experienced at encouraging direct reports to do the same and managing a team to ensure tasks are carried out effectively and key messages cascaded
- Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights
- Able to work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility
- Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card. SSSTS or SMSTS qualified
- Excellent team player, able to work competently and independently without continuous
- supervision
- Strong communication skills with good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Solution orientated approach to issue resolution
- Excellent role model for development of team members and demonstrates required behaviours to align to project and team objectives

**Health Safety & Environmental**

- Understands


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