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    Costain Group

    Engineering and Construction

    Agent

    Plymouth, United KingdomOn-SiteFull-time2+ yrs experiencePosted 2mo ago
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    Job description

    • Contract Type: Permanent
    • Driving Required: No
    • Security Clearance Required: Yes
    • Provide Leadership and/or management in a Client facing role, personally demonstrating a positive Culture including key values & behaviours of Safety and Quality
    • Co-ordination of sub-contractor activities, including chairing regular co-ordination meetings with staff and subcontractors
    • Reporting to Senior Leadership Teams of various Project Organisational teams and functions both directly and indirectly 
    • Co-ordination and liaison with relevant site teams and functions to enable the works, including cross business functional departments
    • In liaison with the Site team(s) identify opportunities & risks and maintain the Risk Register in conjunction with the relevant project functions
    • Scrutinise drawings and technical documents 
    • Provide Intelligent Oversight of the works and site activities and where required raise relevant documentation such as TQ’s RFI’s, NCR’s
    • Overall compliance with Health & Safety Legislation, Company Policy and best practice throughout the construction / commissioning process
    • Ensuring site works and activities comply with relevant expectations, standards and arrangements including site rules and emergency procedures 
    • Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) 
    • Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) including hazards and control measures required
    • Permits for control of works
    • Site Licence management arrangements and governance requirements training and development of education for subcontractors, site supervisors, site teams and workforce
    • Scrutinise and undertake detailed scheduling / programming of site activities in conjunction with sub-contractors and the site team
    • Co-ordination of H&S meetings and site progress meetings

    Ensuring project documentation is produced , collated and completed for hand-over

    • At Costain, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need. 

    Responsibilities

    Key Accountabilities

    • Co-ordination of sub-contractor activities, including chairing regular co-ordination meetings with staff and subcontractors
    • ·Ensuring project documentation is completed for hand-over and Take Over
    • Studying drawings and technical documents and raising technical queries for clarification of any conflicting information
    • Ensuring Non-Conformance Reports are issued when required
    • In liaison with the Site Agent maintain the Site Risk Register

    Qualifications

    Essential 

    • Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in a Civil Engineering (or equivalent experience) and vocational training in Construction / Engineering
    • CSCS

    Desirable

    • Chartered status of a relevant Institution 
    • Project Management training e.g. APM, Prince2 etc.
    • Nuclear Training e.g. Triple bar
    • SMSTS / IOSH
    • Other site qualifications e.g. Lifting Appointed Persons, Confirmed Spaces (Medium), Temporary Works Coordinator / Supervisor etc.

    Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

    Essential 

    • Senior Engineer 2+ years of site experience
    • Agent 5+ years of site experience 
    • IT skills including MS Office

    Desirable

    • BIM / Digital including Autodesk and /or Bentley 
    • Scheduling in Aphex, P6 etc.
    • Behavioural Science / Safety

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    About Us

    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.
    Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
    We do share individual feedback following an interview.

    A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

    It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

    For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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    Costain Group

    Costain Group is a British multinational engineering and construction company.

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