Sub Agent - Cheltenham, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're looking for a Sub Agent with civils experience to join our Highways Major Projects team on our A417 project based in Gloucester.

You will be responsible for supporting the Agent to specify, schedule and manage the engineering resources (people, and physical assets) in order to ensure the technical compliance of the assigned scheme to the design specification and to implement the plan safely on time and to the required quality while maximising customers' satisfaction and gross profit.

Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, company car or car allowance, one professional subscription funded to support your professional development and even more.

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference.

Connecting roads, connecting people.

Location:
Gloucester, Gloucestershire - expected to work from the A417 site 5 days a week

Contract:
Permanent, Fulltime 45 hours per week

Salary:
up to £45k

Responsibilities

As a Sub Agent you'll manage the technical compliance of the project to the design specification in order to fulfil the assigned project (or section) safely, on time and to the required quality.

Your day to day will include:

support the Site Agent in managing a significant section of the project

- support the Site Agent with cost management of your project, ensuring robust control of target cost, actual costs and forecasts through commercial awareness.

Hold a responsibility for the implementation and maintaining of safe systems of work in accordance with Kier Highways SHEA Policy and procedures, all legal requirements and best practice within Kier Highways major projects.

Who are we looking for?
This role of Sub Agent is great for you if have:

relevant qualifications
HNC, degree level, or equivalent experience

- working towards becoming a Chartered Member of the ICE
- knowledge and experience of the main management systems and processes used within a similar business, preferably in the Highways Sector.

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
- competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- fantastic, matched pension scheme
- hare in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.

24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family

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.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress.

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: 20 June 2023

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