Highways Site Agent

FM Conway Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a family-run business with over 60 years of experience as a Highways Site Agent. This full-time role involves overseeing civil engineering works, ensuring health and safety compliance, and maintaining smooth operations across sites in Kent, London, and Sussex. You will play a crucial role in project success by coordinating resources, preparing risk assessments, and liaising with clients and teams. With a commitment to innovation and excellence, this established firm offers a supportive environment, career development opportunities, and a range of benefits including private healthcare and a contributory pension scheme. If you're passionate about civil engineering and ready to make an impact, apply today!

Benefits

Career and Professional Development

23 Days Holiday Plus Bank Holidays

Car Allowance

Private Healthcare

Contributory Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

24-Hour Advice Lines

On-Site Gym Access

Subsidised Restaurant

Qualifications

• Experience in civil engineering works and highways.
• Ability to prepare risk assessments and method statements.

Responsibilities

• Order plant and materials for smooth running of projects.
• Monitor works for accurate invoicing and account settlement.
• Ensure timely completion of all works including snagging.

Skills

Civil Engineering

Planning and Coordination

Risk Assessments

Health and Safety Regulations

Highways Experience

Education

ONC in Civil Engineering

HNC in Civil Engineering

Degree in Civil Engineering

Job description

FMConway is currently searching for a professional Highways Site Agent to join our Major Projects division. As our Highways Site Agent, you will regularly attend site visits across Kent, London and Sussex. You will play a key role within our Major Projects division by ensuring the smooth running of sites through regular liaison with both clients and the teams on site. This full-time, permanent role will be based from our head office in Sevenoaks.

The duties of the Highways Site Agent will include:

• Ordering plant and materials to support the smooth running of the works programme
• Monitoring and maintaining records of plant, labour and materials together with works additional to the programme
• Monitoring works to enable the accurate submission of monthly invoices and final account settlement
• Ensuring that all works (including snagging) are completed to both a timely and satisfactory standard

What skills and experience do you need?

We are searching for a professional Highways Site Agent who has a previous background working within civil engineering works. The successful individual must hold the ability to plan, coordinate and allocate resources, prepare risk assessments and method statements whilst ensuring health and safety regulations are adhered to. Highways experience is essential as well as an ONC, HNC or degree in civil engineering.

What benefits will you receive?

As our Highways Site Agent, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, a car allowance, private healthcare, contributory pension scheme, life assurance as well as opportunities for internal and external training. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines and support from our mental health first aiders. Based from our Sevenoaks Head Office you will have free access to our on-site gym and subsidised restaurant.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Major Projects Division

FM Conway is a family-run business with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business, the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.

Our Major Projects team provide our clients with engineering excellence from design through to completion, across new-build works, heavy structural engineering, deep drainage schemes, earthworks and public realm improvements. From small works to complex projects, our multi-disciplinary capability requires meticulous planning and the delivery of sustainable solutions across the full spectrum of transport and urban infrastructure.

So if you would like to Join our Family as our Highways Site Agent, then please click ‘apply’ today.

Closing Date: 06/02/2025

FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life.

At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.

We look forward to receiving your application!