Agent

Balfour Beatty's Highways; Grays; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

25 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

Discounts and staff offers

Refer a friend bonus

BB staff benefits portal

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Highways is recruiting a Senior Agent to provide strategic operational management for the Lower Thames Crossing project. You will lead a multi-disciplinary highways team, ensuring delivery of targets and management of resources across engineering and supervision roles.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong leadership, drive Zero Harm, and maintain high safety and quality standards while coordinating with internal teams and external partners to meet project milestones.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing and leading large teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic operational management of a multi-disciplinary highways team.
• Holds strong leadership and control over engineering and supervisory resources.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver project objectives.

Job description

As a Senior Agent, you will provide strategic operational management, strong leadership and control of a multi-disciplinary highways team, comprising engineering and supervisory resources at all levels, and facilitation of strong links with other teams within and external to the project. What you'll be doing Core

Responsibilities - Zero Harm & Sustainability

• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of CSUK's Sustainability activities

Health Safety & Environmental

• Sets and manages targets and KPI's in line with Project / Business objectives and monitors performance, steering towards success
• Carries out periodic Safety and Environmental Tours as required by the Project Construction

Phase Plan

• Leads periodic risk reviews and takes output forward to the Project Risk Register
• Monitors effectiveness of the H & S Management System and drives change when required

Engineering Control

• Identifies longer term strategic training to support individual development as required
• Good knowledge and experience of highways construction details, temporary traffic management and maintenance protocol/procedures of managing the network

Quality

• Sets targets and KPI's in line with Project objectives and monitors performance
• Ensures site audits are undertaken and takes appropriate action on the findings
• Overall ownership of Handover Documentation for Section

Productivity

• Sets targets and KPI's in line with key outputs and monitors performance, reporting Section
• Carry out constructive analysis of fully resourced programme

Progress

• Manage sub-contractor performance based on KPI's

Core

• Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights.
• Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card. Must be SMSTS qualified

Health Safety & Environmental (continued)

• Understanding method statements and guides others in document production
• Good working knowledge of current H & S legislation

Engineering Control (continued)

• Experienced in resource allocation and up skilling
• Knowledge and experience of links between design teams and operational delivery

Quality (continued)

• Understands, implements and champions the Organisational Business Management Systems and processes involved
• Clear understanding of the ownership of handover and experience of the process

Productivity (continued)

• Understands sub-contractor KPI's and has wide ranging experience of using them to manage performance
• Able to dynamically shift programme and adapt to circumstances on site whilst maintaining focus on targets

Commercial

• Identifies elements for cost recovery from others and guides junior members of staff in maintaining project records
• Working knowledge of the NEC and other relevant forms of contract

Qualities / Experience Desirable

• Proven track record in managing and leading large teams
• Wide ranging independent judgement evident, proven track record in this regard

Project Details

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Agent to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project! LTC is a new road that will connect Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames and will be the greenest road ever built in the UK – creating six times more green space than road. The reliable new route will almost double road capacity over the river east of London to reduce congestion and give millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time. 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 order book 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 add social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and Inclusion

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

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.

Benefits

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• Company car
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our portal
• 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

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 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.