Sub Agent

Sub Agent

Rail & Civil Engineering ¦ Asset Management

Location – Glasgow (Central Depot), Scotland

Due to continued growth and success in the region, we are looking to recruit a Sub Agent based at our Glasgow, central depot, supporting the regional asset maintenance works. This is an outstanding opportunity for a Sub Agent looking to continue their professional development and support civils and structures maintenance works and projects on the railway infrastructure in Central region and surrounding areas.

Business Unit

A busy and fast paced project environment involving in a range of multi-disciplinary civil engineering projects, working for a varied range of clients including Local Authorities, Network Rail, Environmental and private developers.

Projects can typically include civil engineering works and infrastructure projects such as:

Roads, bridges, footbridges, tunnels, underbridges, flood alleviation / repairs, embankments and rail platforms etc.

We currently have a number of live infrastructure projects and long term renewals and maintenance frameworks underway including Civils Asset Management (CAM), Renewals Enhancement Framework (REF) and a slab track framework.

The Role

As Sub Agent you will be directly responsible for the daily management of various civil engineering and rail projects within our portfolio of work in the region. Day to day responsibilities would include:

•  Ensuring that the contract is executed in accordance with the requirements of:

o  All applicable legislation

o  The Terms and Conditions of the Contract

o  The Contract Health and Safety Plan

o  The Work Package Plans and Task Briefing Sheets

o  The Contract Quality / Environmental Plan

•  Delivery of the contract within programme and budget.

•  Liaison with site staff and managing surveyor to ensure tender allowances are not exceeded.

•  The continuous monitoring of contract progress to ensure contract objectives are being met.

•  Ensuring that in conjunction with the site team changes to the contract are identified, agreed and effectively managed.

•  The provision of formal reports on contract progress to the Project and Contracts Managers.

Requirements

To excel in this role, you will have previous experience as a Senior Engineer or Sub Agent in a civil engineering environment.

• SMSTS
• PTS
• Degree / HNC or HND in civil engineering (or equivalent compensating experience in a technical engineering role)
• Experience as a Senior Engineer or Sub Agent in a civil engineering contracting environment.
• Experience in a similar role working on multi-disciplinary civils infrastructure projects.
• Rail experience

In return

• Competitive annual salary negotiable dependant on experience
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 volunteer days
• Company contributory Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• Westfield Health Cash Plan & Westfield Rewards
• Generous Employee referral scheme
• Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
• Consistent learning opportunities
• A safe place to work.
• Employee forum’s that provide a platform for having your voice heard