My client a Major civil engineering and Build Contractor is seeking an experienced Site Agent to work on a prestigious civil engineering project in the yorkshire region.
The client has been established for over 40years’ within the Construction sector working on multi discipline schemes across the country consisting of: Highways, Structures and Environemntal, maintaining a strong pipeline of work with a low staff turnover.
Key Responsibilities

• Participates in compiling the initial programme and have a full awareness of weekly targets
  
• Plans and oversees the site setup, ensuring that the appropriate facilities are in place prior to the project launch
  
• Manages the relationship with the sub-contractors while working onsite
  
• Takes ownership for ensuring that HSEQS protocols are adhered to on sites at all times
  
• Maintains quality control procedures at all times
  
• Ensures that the TWR is in place and is up to date
  
• Drives the pace of the project and plans the work in the field
  
• Coordinates and priorities the sequence of activities on site
  
• Manages a team of foremen and other site staff
  
• Ensures that all employees adhere to appropriate protocols in the event of an incident onsite.
  
• Able to relate company commercial strategy to own activities
  
• Operates the site on a holistic ‘cradle to grave’ project management approach.
  
• Be able to communicate the site requirements to the commercial team and achieve the most economical reasonable solution bearing in mind commercial constraints
  
• Drive the project programme
  
• Manage information and record of relevant contemporaneous records
  
• Follows the PEP as a means of ensuring that work is carried out on time and on budget
  Experience & Skills
  
• Strong People Management experience
  
• Knowledge of good industrial relations practices
  
• Ability to communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally and able to alter style and method to suit audience
  
• Strong people skills and able to manage a variety of subcontractor supervision
  
• Experience of leading others and track record of delivering medium to large scale projects.
  
• Ability to prioritise and make prompt decisions in the interests of the project
  
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all the trades required on site, codes of practice relating to them and their specific requirements
  
• Experience building credibility with contractors by treating them with respect