Site Agent

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Costain are recruiting Site Agents with experience in water and/or infrastructure to support the delivery of projects within our Core and non-Core planned projects on our framework with Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA)

About The Project

Anglian Water has created a new delivery enterprise - the Strategic Pipeline Alliance. “SPA” is creating hundreds of kilometers of new, interconnecting pipelines to help combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across the Anglian Water region. The new network is one of the largest infrastructure projects for a generation and is a complex and challenging major infrastructure project.

Key Responsibilities

Organise and manage the systems of work for your allocated discipline including management of the relevant supply chain

Be fully conversant with supply chain contract conditions and responsibilities, manage their works and account measurement with the commercial team

Ensure key project and programme risks are identified early, and mitigated where possible, with issues and blockers escalated immediately to the PM.

Complete inspection and test plans, risk assessments and method statements for the control of the works ensuring that all necessary documentation are produced in a timely manner

Keep a full and accurate daily site diary, including any changes / variations, subcontractors’ attendance, and records of work-related discussions with client / designer project team

Manage supervise and mentor site and assistant engineers to ensure high levels of engineering control and appropriate records.

Regularly review performance, training and development needs of your direct reports

About You

Civil Engineering related qualification

Site Management Safety Training Scheme SMSTS

Relevant CSCS Card

CPCS Lifting Appointed Person

Temporary Works Coordinator qualification/experience

Other relevant training (preferred includes Appointed Person, relevant lifting training and temporary works co-ordination)

Understanding of Engineering Principles and extensive technical knowledge of construction techniques and best practices

Knowledge of construction contract law and forms of contract through formal training

Computer competence (MS Word, Excel, Document control system, Primavera software)

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

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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.

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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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