We’re recruiting for Site Agents to join our framework with the Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA).
What will you be doing as our new Site Agent?
Our Site Agents will play a key role in the successful delivery of the Strategic Pipeline Alliance, reporting to the Project Delivery Manager you’ll be responsible for:
Management and awareness of all aspects of day to day site production for the satisfactory completion of specific elements of the project, including resource management, forward planning and communication with their teams.
Ensuring all operations adhere to both legislative and SPA guidelines for health, safety, environmental and quality procedures and are delivered within budget, on schedule and in accordance with the appropriate standards, specifications and regulatory requirements
Candidate Specification
Always champions and prioritises Health & Safety elements of every stage of every job
Understanding and experience of land entry practices.
Thorough understanding of commercial, contractual and procurement processes, including the NEC suite of contracts to enable effective delivery.
Management of Risk and Opportunity – Understand the sites Risk and Opportunities and work with the team to pro-actively mitigate risks and realise opportunities.
Experience in the supervision and coordination of Temporary Works on site, ideally with an internal or external accreditation
Can demonstrate experience of being part of large-scale infrastructure programmes of work, preferably with experience of project mobilisation, enabling, easement and landscaping activities.
Understand the benefits of a production-based approach and how this can deliver differently
Are excellent communicators who can passionately share SPA’s vision to both their teams and external stakeholders
Work collaboratively with the Engineering & Integration team to help deliver the most holistic solutions
Has a can-do attitude and enthusiasm to innovate and get the job done
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.
Your application
Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com
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.
To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
Right to Work & Security Checks
Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.
For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.
Closing date
Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
