About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for an Agent to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

As an Agent, you will provide management, leadership and control of a multi-disciplinary team comprising Sub Agents, Section Engineers and Site Engineers, operating across ecology, archaeology, demolitions, utilities enabling works among other pre-construction activities as part of the Lower Thames Crossing Project.

What you'll be doing

Health, Safety & Wellbeing: Maintain a safe working environment by enforcing health and safety regulations, best practices, and adherence to the Construction Phase Plan. Drive the beyond Zero Harm commitment by promoting and encouraging wellbeing for all. Monitor compliance with onboarding and induction processes for your element of works.

Programme: Plan all self-delivered works and coordinate/monitor the programme for subcontract/3rd party works. Drive progress to ensure the project programme dates are met or surpassed. Manage short interval control planning and support the Planner and Project Manager with NEC4 CL32 updates.

Project Management: Coordinate with subcontractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth workflow and timely project delivery. Address any issues or challenges that arise during the construction process and find effective solutions.

Quality Assurance: Lead the management of quality, setting the required quality standards and ensuring the project team (foreman, engineers, subcontractors etc.) understand the specifications and control/reporting requirements. Review all Inspection & Test Plans for both self-delivered and subcontract works.

Community: Provide relevant information to the communications team to ensure all stakeholders and the public are informed of the ongoing works in accordance with the communications plan. Implement close out actions following any incident/complaint. Work with the Social Value Team to ensure commitments of the scheme are met.

Environmental Sustainability & Carbon: Liaise with the Environmental Manager to ensure compliance with the Projects Environmental Management Plan and carbon requirements for the scheme.

Reporting: Provide regular progress reports to senior management, highlighting any deviations from the project plan and proposing corrective actions.

Cost Management: Own the budget and maintain strict management and control of costs. Work with the quantity surveyor to report cost and performance on a weekly basis. Work with the commercial team to identify and assess the impact of change.

Procurement: Produce technical scope for invitation to tenders and complete the tender return assessments for all subcontracts. Work with Procurement, Commercial and the Project Manager to finalise the recommendation report. Attend and coordinate pre-award and pre-start meetings. Review and approve (if within DLA) requisitions for both plant and materials in accordance with the procurement and cost management and administration plan.

Design Management: Attend design and RFI meetings with the Consultant and subcontractors and manage any change that arises as a result. Work with Document Control to coordinate the subcontract design elements with the Consultant.

Handover: Work with the Quality Engineer to ensure handover requirements are clearly defined and understood by all. Ensure handover deliverables (such as construction certificates, redline/as-builts, O&M manuals & H&S files) are submitted in line with the scope and programme requirements.

Leadership: Manage and mentor Section/Site Engineers/Sub-Agents for your scope of works

Who we're looking for

The candidate would ideally have experience in the following:

Proven experience in a similar role, preferably on large scale infrastructure roads projects

Strong leadership, communication skills and mentoring/coaching skills.

Knowledge of construction regulations and best practices along with Experience with NEC 3 / 4 contracts

Able and willing to make decisions following consideration of options based on best available information; track record of solution orientated approach to resolve issues

Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Strong working ethics

Qualifications, Competency & prerequisites

Engineering or Construction Management qualification

Full UK drivers licence

A fit for work medical

CSCS

Pre-Start drug & alcohol test

BPSS Security Clearance. This will be completed by the project Security Manager however it will require the candidate to supply a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

42 core base hours per week

25 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)

Refer a friend bonus scheme

Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

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