Job Description

Our client is seeking an experienced Site Agent for 4 weeks cover on a Water Treatment Works, near Watford.

You will be in charge of site operations, directing and organising site activities to ensure that the planned work is delivered safely and on time, ensuring performance meets recognised standards of productivity, quality and compliance with health and safety legislation and company policies.

This is a freelance position (outside IR35) and will be site based near Watford.

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Ensure projects are delivered within budget, to programme and safely.

• Ensure a suitably competent workforce is in place to complete all site activities including subcontractors.

• Undertake site audits and inspection to ensure Health and safety compliance with relevant legislation.

• Perform quality checks in line with contract specification and contract statement of requirements maintaining accurate records of site resources, materials and plant.

• Produce and provide daily resource sheets, weekly plant returns, weekly materials returns and subcontract performance reports.

• Stakeholder management; working with customers, clients, local authorities and other interested third parties regarding past, present or future works

What we're looking for:

• Understanding of programme delivery processes within WTW

• Working knowledge of the NEC form of contract

• Working knowledge of construction techniques associated with responsible programmes of work.

• Understanding of applicable construction legislation including HSEQ

• Ability to work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Computer literate

• Ability to manage a budget, and possess a clear focus on high quality and control of costs along with commercial awareness and an understanding of basic business finance e.g. capital and revenue expenditure, cash-flow, overheads

• Possess the skills and confidence to supervise and coordinate site requirements and tasks.

Previous experience required:

• Demonstrable experience of managing WTW projects throughout project lifecycle.

• Experience managing project budget and profit & loss responsibility.

• Demonstrable experience in solving problems, resolving conflict, arbitrate, negotiate and make sound judgements and decisions.

• Proven experience managing medium – heavy civils projects with complex temporary works installations.

Qualifications we look for:

• HNC or above qualified (preferably in an engineering discipline)

• SMSTS

• CSCS or SHEA

• First Aid

• Thames Water Passport

All applicants MUST be able to provide TWO credible references