- Take overall responsibility for the successful completion of the construction programme.
- Monitor delivery of the project, identifying risk and opportunities and working with key stakeholders to optimise project delivery.
- Assess the buildability of the proposed design and ensure that Design teams produce feasible designs within the required timescales.
- Lead the delivery of construction works, ensuring compliance with all company processes and protocols.
- Manage and develop the supervisory and engineering team, and lead project steering groups/cross discipline action groups, as required.
- Responsible for the monitoring and management of construction budgets
- Live the Balfour Beatty Values
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of CSUKs Sustainability activities.
- Practical understanding of construction techniques and detailing
- Experience in the management of a wide range of construction operations, including phasing
and contingency planning, together with testing and handover. - Strong commercial awareness and good technical knowledge
- Strong leadership and management skills, with a collaborative leadership style:
- CSCS Card and must be SMSTS qualified.
- Strong decision-making ability.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills Able to provide expert technical knowledge to
support work winning. - Proven track record in managing and leading large teams, recruiting talent, mentoring and developing team members.
- Local & sector knowledge for supply chain and external contacts purposes, and for environmental and regulatory requirements.
- Successful track record in making independent, objective judgements.
- Has achieved professional accreditation and undertakes extra-curricular activities to advance the profession (eg RICS, MCIOB)
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Site Agent - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty
Description
About the role
Location - Central Belt Scotland / East Lothian
Education / School Builds experience essential with some Civil experience desirable
Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Site Agent within Education .
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale Buildings projects within Education in the central belt and you will work with true experts wholl share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and well help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
As a Site Agent you will provide a strategic operational management plan to enable successful project delivery, strong leadership of a multi-disciplinary team, and facilitation of strong links with other teams within and external to the project/
You will have the following accountabilities:
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential.
The following qualities/experience are desirable
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats 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
