Site Agent

Network Plus Services; Derby; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Site Agent, where you will lead infrastructure projects in the clean water sector. This role offers the opportunity to manage operational teams while ensuring safety, budget adherence, and customer satisfaction. You'll play a crucial part in enhancing service ratings through effective communication and leadership. With a focus on quality and compliance, you will oversee resources and support your teams in achieving their full potential. If you are passionate about making a difference in the utilities sector and possess strong management skills, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualifications in utilities and supervisory roles are essential.
• Experience in health & safety and street works is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Supervise water projects and manage daily site activities.
• Ensure compliance with health & safety standards and quality assurance.

Skills

Operational supervision

Health & Safety management

Communication skills

Financial awareness

IT proficiency (Excel, Word)

Team management

Education

NRWSA qualification

Health & Safety qualification

Supervisor Street works qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Site Agent

Our Role

As a Site Agent, you will be responsible for the resources associated with delivering a wide range of Infrastructure Projects and Capital Works on the existing clean water network across Nottingham/Derby for our client, Severn Trent.

You will plan, manage, and supervise operational teams as they carry out schemes and provide operational leadership – ensuring that the work is delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to our client’s expectations. In addition to Health and Safety, customer service is critical to the client.

Satisfaction of customers is measured through a new regulatory measure called C-MeX. You will work closely with the client to influence the C-MeX measure and show leadership skills to genuinely care about the ratings customers give of Network Plus’s Non-Core services.

You will work with the scheduling and planning team to ensure our Non-Core work is delivered on programme. You will be expected to communicate with customers who are impacted by our work, as and when required.

Key Responsibilities

1. Have operational supervisory responsibility for water projects on the Non-Core Programme and the daily activities that take place on site.
2. Organise labour in the most cost-effective way, including recruitment, disciplinary action, wages, and absence management.
3. Manage all other resources e.g., materials, plant, and our sub-contract partners.
4. Ensure accurate information is captured of works undertaken, including photographs, as-builts, and quality assurance exercises.
5. Regularly visit teams at local site level – reviewing progress and performance and ensuring standards are adhered to at all times.
6. Carry out team briefings with teams on a monthly basis; coaching and developing the teams and supporting them in reaching their full potential.
7. Complete team inspections as and when required, ensuring a high level of Compliance with a real focus on quality and a right first-time operational delivery.
8. Be a Health & Safety Representative; undertaking health & safety inspections in and around the workplace, raising health and safety-related matters with management, and investigating reportable accidents or incidents as and when they occur.

Experience and Qualifications

• Relevant Qualifications in relation to the work being carried out i.e., NRWSA at supervisory level.
• Health & Safety qualification an advantage.
• Experience of working in Utilities.
• Supervisor Street works qualification.
• Deep Excavation knowledge and experience.
• Good management skills.
• Financial and commercial awareness.
• Proficient IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package that can be discussed further at your interview.

Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

We are Armed Forces-friendly. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors, and military spouses/partners.

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