Sub Agent - Utilities

Balfour Beatty plc; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international construction firm is seeking a Sub-Agent (Utilities) in Aberdeen to manage critical infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include ensuring safety compliance, motivating teams, and maintaining project standards. Candidates should have a relevant safety qualification and a strong commitment to safety and teamwork. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work.
• Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours.
• Excellent team player, able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Lead an Accident / Incident Investigation.
• Maintain accurate diary, including dialogue with external organisations.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to motivate team

Solution-oriented approach

Education

SSSTS or SMSTS qualified

Current driving license

CSCS Card

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Sub-Agent (Utilities)

Location: Aberdeen

Project Type: Energy

Company: Balfour Beatty Group

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, support communities, and enable economic growth. Our expertise and resources help us deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team. Our regional Scotland team is looking for a Sub-Agent to build new futures. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale critical infrastructure projects in Scotland, you will work with true experts who will share knowledge and provide support, feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

Core

• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities
• Motivate team and manage performance; monitor the competency of team members and undertake training/ coaching as appropriate

Health Safety & Environmental

• Reviews Method Statements and Risk Assessments and makes improvements as appropriate
• Lead an Accident / Incident Investigation (HFACS and ‘Four Page Report’)
• Carries out trend analysis and identifies improvement areas from audits and near misses
• Carries out field audits and confirms the sufficiency of control documentation
• Production and implementation of Permits to Work, specifically Confined Space Permits and Hot Works Permits
• Strong understanding of temporary works and timescales for implementation into the works

Engineering Control

• Guides & coaches subordinates in technical requirements and techniques of setting out
• Guides and coaches subordinates in resolution of construction issues, drawing on experience and accepted industry best practice

Quality

• Ownership of whole process of production, checking and submission of Handover Documentation (Green Files or equivalent)
• Implements systems and processes to support construction of the works in accordance with the specification (eg Materials Approval, NCR, Handover Documentation)
• Carries out trend analysis of the above and identifies improvement areas for non conformance and business improvement
• Carries out Independent Inspections of their own section and of others
• Carries out Site Audits to check works and documentation compliance
• Coaches less experienced staff
• Liaise with designer to resolve technical issues

Commercial

• Maintains accurate diary, including dialogue with external organisations (subcontractors)
• Produces a budget from the resourced programme and monitors / reviews weekly costs
• Involved in the procurement of subcontractors
• Manages sub contractors
• Understands cost and value

Productivity

• Produces a fully resourced stage programme in the accepted format / software
• Tracks and monitors KPI compliance and recommends improvements to systems to maintain team production
• Establishes monitors of production, translated to graphical form from the Programme to aid understanding of current status and identification of requirements for intervention
• Cross references section programme to three weekly programme and ensures compatibility

Drafts correspondence to sub contractors, suppliers and Client

Who we're looking for

Core

• Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately. Suggests and implements improvements to systems
• Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes with clarity; experienced at encouraging direct reports to do the same and managing a team to ensure tasks are carried out effectively and key messages cascaded
• Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights
• Able to work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility
• Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card. SSSTS or SMSTS qualified
• Excellent team player, able to work competently and independently without continuous supervision
• Strong communication skills with good interpersonal and influencing skills
• Solution orientated approach to issue resolution
• Excellent role model for development of team members and demonstrates required behaviours to align to project and team objectives

Health Safety & Environmental

• Understands method statements and risk assessments, able to develop new and improved safe systems of work
• Understands the principles of Accident / Incident Investigation and has good working knowledge of the process
• Good working knowledge of current H&S Legislation

Engineering Control

• A full understanding of technical requirements and techniques of setting out and coaching of team members
• Allocates correct resource levels and identifies additional requirements
• Track record of solution orientated approach to issue resolution

Quality

• Understands the Organisational Business Management Systems and processes
• Strong understanding of requirements for handover, including certification

Productivity

• Able to produce a fully resourced stage programme in the accepted format / software
• Able to measure and track KPIs for enhanced productivity
• Strong knowledge and management of construction process in one or more of the following areas: Earthworks/Drainage, Pavement, Comms, Structures, Roadworks

Commercial

• Awareness of procurement practice
• Experienced at producing detailed records and correspondence for commercial recovery

Why work for us

• Be part of a major energy infrastructure investment that’s shaping the UK’s low-carbon future.
• Work on challenging, high-profile projects with the support of a skilled, multi-disciplinary team.
• Join a culture of learning, improvement, and excellence—where your voice makes a difference.
• Enjoy a competitive salary, development opportunities, and a flexible, inclusive working environment.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career. We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We\'re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10 approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

For further information about Balfour Beatty Regional Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/Scotland - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

About Us

From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on. We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities. Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. 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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]