Senior General Foreman

Costain are recruiting for a **Senior General Foreman** to join our Thames Tideway operations team on a permanent basis

This specific role is working with sewage treatment plant interface at our Greenwich site

**About the project**
Thames Tideway Tunnel Main Works East is a £650m Costain-Vinci-Bachy joint venture (“CVB”) which aims to achieve the ambitious target of “Reconnecting London with the River Thames” by tackling the issue of frequent untreated sewage spills into the river from London’s sewer network. This major project will provide a new sewage storage and transfer tunnel from Chambers Wharf to Abbey Mills. It includes the main tunnel, a connection tunnel to Greenwich Pumping Station, various shaft constructions, a connection to the newly constructed Lee Tunnel project, and minor works at the Beckton Sewage Treatment Plant

**Key Responsibilities**
Work with the Senior Works Superintendent and Project Manager to deliver the scheme
Manage and coordinate site activities in line with the programme
Review daily outputs achieved and report to the Project Manager
Ensure only adequately trained and experienced operatives are engaged on site to deliver the works
Deliver site inductions and regular toolbox talk briefings to the site team covering appropriate Health, Safety and Environmental issues and ensure records of these briefings are maintained
Plan and assist Senior Works Super’ in determining best avenue of works, advising on specialist strengths and concerns

**About you**
Recognised Civil Engineering experience
Understanding of Engineering Principles
Extensive technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices
Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management (IOSH for example)
Experience of managing large tunneling sites
HNC/HND in Civil Engineering (Desirable)
Traffic safety control Officer (TSCO) (Desirable)
Vocational Training (successful experience of project supervision) (Desirable)

**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.

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**Closing date**

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