Site Agent
Posted 2 weeks ago by Site Operative Solutions Limited
£450 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
Leiston, Suffolk
Summary: The Site Agent role in Leiston, Suffolk, involves leading a civils project for a tier 1 contractor, focusing on health, safety, and quality standards. The position requires proactive leadership, effective resource management, and ensuring compliance with project specifications. The successful candidate will also contribute to safety targets and oversee operational excellence on-site. This ongoing role demands considerable experience in civil engineering and strong technical knowledge.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strong leadership regarding health, safety, environment, and quality standards.
- Contribute to safety targets and promote zero tolerance of unsafe practices.
- Establish and implement site systems and controls consistent with company standards.
- Produce and communicate risk assessments and method statements.
- Support and endorse behavioral safety programs and hazard reporting.
- Contribute to value engineering and buildability of the project.
- Agree on programmes and methods of construction with planners.
- Monitor and control resource requirements and production outputs.
- Lead short-term planning and dissemination of programmes to the site team.
- Manage a team and organize resources for project execution.
- Secure materials and manage wastage and allowances.
- Ensure RAMS, ITPs, and MARs are signed off before work commences.
- Manage permitting and approvals.
- Identify and manage temporary works requirements.
- Ensure project quality standards and handover requirements are met.
- Produce and close out non-conformance reports in a timely manner.
Key Skills:
- Considerable experience in Civil Engineering with strong technical knowledge.
- Demonstrable experience in the construction of highways works.
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations and relevant specifications.
- Ability to produce RAMS and safe systems of work.
- Experience managing a small team and good organizational skills.
- Degree/HNC/HND in civil engineering or similar.
- Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers or equivalent desirable.
- IOSH Managing Safely, SMSTS, and CSCS Card required.
- Temporary Works Supervisor/Coordinator and First Aider/Fire Marshall desirable.
- Fit for work medical or safety critical medical desirable.
Salary (Rate): £450/day
City: Leiston
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Site Agent
Location: Leiston, Suffolk
Duration: On going
Contact: Mitchell
Apply now!
Site Operative Solutions Limited have an excellent opportunity for site agent in Leiston, Suffolk.
This role is working for a tier 1 contractor who are looking for site agent working on a civils project.
Start date: ASAP
Duration: On going
For this role, site agent would be undertaking the following duties:
- Strong, visible, proactive leadership with regards to health, safety, environment and quality standards
- Contribute to the achievement of safety targets and zero tolerance of unsafe working practices and occurrences
- To establish and implement site systems and controls consistent with company standards and project requirements
- To ensure the production and communication of risk assessment and methods statements to the site supervision
- Support and endorse behavioural Safety programme and the use of hazard and good practice observation reporting (or Customer led initiatives similar to above where required)
- Support staff and frontline workers’ health and wellbeing
Programme and Production
- Contributing to the value engineering and buildability of the project Agreement of programmes and methods of construction with Planner and other appropriate production personnel
- Ensuring that resource requirements, production outputs, overhead targets and are established, monitored and controlled.
- Carry out constructive analysis of fully resourced programme and ensure production of operational target programmes to reflect the overall contract programme
- Lead on short term planning and dissemination of short-term programmes to the site team and supply chain
Operational Excellence
- Leadership and management of a team
- Organisation of resources for the overall control and execution of the works including the selection of sub-contractors to carry out the works where necessary
- To secure materials and plant necessary to meet specifications and planned programme of work. Manage wastage and allowances of materials
- Ensure that RAMS, ITPs, MARs are signed off before any work commences. Ensure all testing regimes are in place and work inspection requests and check sheets are implemented and adhered to
- Manage all permitting and approvals
- Identify temporary works requirements and produce or manage the production of detailed and accurate temporary works designs and safe implementation
- Ensure project quality standards and handover requirements are met. Ensure non-conformance reports are produced, investigated and closed out in timely manner
Experience/Knowledge:
- Considerable experience in Civil Engineering, with strong technical knowledge. Demonstrable experience with the construction of all elements of highways works
- Knowledge of the requirements and implementation of CDM Regulations
- Good knowledge of specifications and testing regime relevant to general civil engineering / specification for highway works
- Ability to produce RAMS, Task Briefing Sheets, and safe systems of work. Knowledge of Safety, Quality and Environmental systems
- Experience of managing a small team using own initiative. Good organisational skills
All site agent on this project must have:
- Degree/HNC/HND in civil engineering or similar
- Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers or equivalent desirable
- IOSH Managing Safely
- SMSTS and CSCS Card
- Temporary Works Supervisor / Coordinator desirable
- First Aider, Fire Marshall desirable
- Fit for work medical (or safety critical medical) desirable
Rates & Shift pattern:
£400 - £450 per day (Mon - Fri, 07:30 to 17:30)
Interested? Please apply now with your CV or contact the SOS Recruitment team to discuss further.