Agent - Stafford, United Kingdom - Kier Group
Description
We're looking for an Agent to join our regional civils team based in Doxey, Staffordshire. Within this role you can enjoy 26 days annual leave, sharesave scheme, family friendly policies and even more.Location:
Doxey, Staffordshire
Contract:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive _+ _benefits_
Responsibilities
In the role of Agent you'll be working within our regional civils team, supporting them on the ECW2 (Early Civil Works) contract on HS2 Phase 2a.
This includes highway modification sites ranging from passing bays and road widenings to a new bridge across the M6 at Yarnfield.
Kier are responsible of the detailed design and construction of the these works.The contract also includes Route wide (new railway line) ecological and environmental surveys and is to be completed by 2024.
Your day to day will include:
- manage resources (people, finance and physical assets) in order to fulfil the assigned project(s) safely
- take full ownership and accountability for cost management allocated section, ensuring robust control of Target Cost, actual costs, and forecasts through commercial awareness.
What do we need from you?
This role of Agent is great for you if:
- Relevant qualifications
- degree level, or equivalent experience
- Chartered Member of the ICE (or working towards) or similar.
- Proven capability working on major multidisciplinary projects, in a regulated setting.
- Excellent communication and project management skills including leading and managing technical teams.
- Able to establish project requirements and drive the team to deliver the outcomes in terms of quality, cost and programme.
Benefits at Kier
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more.
- professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
- pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
- Kier rewards
- You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.
Who is Kier?
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.
Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
Closing date:26 February 2023
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