Utilities Coordinator

STRABAG SE; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

STRABAG SE is seeking a Utilities Survey Manager to lead the management and assurance of utility surveys, ensuring avoidance of underground and overhead services while supporting site teams in planning and delivery around existing assets.

You will coordinate with statutory undertakers, asset owners and internal delivery teams, maintaining robust records and enforcing safety and procedural compliance across the project.

Qualifications

• Experience in utility survey management, coordination and risk assessment for underground and overhead services.
• Familiarity with HSG47, PAS 128, permit-to-dig, CAT and Genny, trial holes and safe excavation methods.
• Ability to review utility records, survey reports, drawings, statutory undertaker information, RAMS and permits.

Responsibilities

• Lead utility survey management and ensure avoidance of underground and overhead services.
• Coordinate utility survey risk, records, and constraints with stakeholders.
• Train and appoint competent persons for roles under the avoidance procedures.
• Ensure works near underground/overhead services comply with HSG47 and PAS 128.
• Coordinate with asset owners, highways authorities, and survey contractors.
• Maintain records of survey findings, verification, permits and inspections.
• Support RAMS, permits to dig, excavation plans and temporary works proposals.

Skills

Utility survey management

Utilities coordination

Civil engineering

Infrastructure delivery

Construction works

Underground services

Overhead services

Stakeholder management

Records and risk management

Site safety and RAMS

Education

CSCS

SMSTS/SSSTS

EUSR accreditation

CAT and Genny training

Temporary Works Supervisor

First Aid at Work

NRSWA awareness/experience

GIS/BIM/digital utility records experience

Experience with statutory undertakers and asset owners

Tools

GIS

BIM

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a landmark clean-water infrastructure scheme, which also involves significant highway and access infrastructure works to support both the permanent scheme and temporary construction logistics.

What matters to us

• Experienced in utility survey management, utilities coordination, civil engineering, infrastructure delivery or construction works involving significant underground and overhead services risk.
• Strong understanding of UK utility avoidance requirements and good practice, including HSG47, PAS 128, permit-to-dig processes, CAT and Genny use, trial holes and safe excavation methods.
• Experienced in reviewing utility records, survey reports, drawings, statutory undertaker information, construction work packs, RAMS and permits.
• Confident challenging incomplete information, weak controls or unsafe behaviours where utilities or overhead services may be affected.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple parties.
• Meticulous approach to records, assurance, procedural compliance and risk management.
• Strong health and safety culture, with the ability to influence site teams and embed consistent behaviours.

Training & Qualifications

• CSCS.
• SMSTS or SSSTS.
• EUSR accreditation.
• CAT and Genny training.
• Temporary Works Supervisor.
• First Aid at Work.
• NRSWA awareness or experience.
• GIS, BIM or digital utility records experience.
• Experience working with statutory undertakers and asset owners.

STRABAG - More than just a construction company

Your contribution to our company

As Utilities Survey Manager, you will be responsible for utility survey management, underground and overhead services avoidance and the safe management of works around existing utility assets. You will be responsible for ensuring that site teams can plan, understand and deliver works in accordance with the project’s Avoidance of Underground and Overhead Services procedure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the management and assurance of the project’s Avoidance of Underground and Overhead Services procedure, ensuring site teams understand and comply with the required process before works commence.
• Act as the project focal point for utility survey risk, utility records, underground service information and overhead service constraints.
• Train, develop and appoint competent persons on sites to ensure resilience for all defined roles under the Avoidance of Underground and Overhead Services procedure.
• Ensure works around underground services are planned, controlled and delivered in line with HSG47 principles.
• Ensure works near overhead services are planned and controlled in line with procedures and industry guidance.
• Develop and manage the utility survey strategy for the project, ensuring that survey requirements are identified early, scoped correctly and delivered to the required standard.
• Ensure utility surveys are specified, delivered, reviewed and recorded in line with PAS 128 requirements for underground utility detection, verification and location.
• Coordinate desktop utility records searches, statutory undertaker information, PAS 128 surveys, EML/GPR surveys, trial holes, verification works and site walkovers.
• Review survey outputs, utility drawings, asset owner records and site information.
• Ensure all utility information is captured, controlled and maintained within the live utility register, GIS, BIM models, drawings, permits and construction work packs as required.
• Support site teams in the preparation and review of RAMS, permits to dig, excavation plans, temporary works proposals and task briefings.
• Stop or escalat[e] works where utility information, procedural compliance or site controls are inadequate.
• Support ongoing utility connection and diversion works across the full utilities team remit, including potable water, power, gas, telecoms, drainage and temporary site supplies.
• Support utility asset protection works and ensure existing services are identified, exposed, protected, monitored and handed back in accordance with asset owner and project requirements.
• Coordinate with statutory undertakers, asset owners, highways authorities, designers, survey contractors, utility subcontractors and internal delivery teams.
• Support the Engineering team by feeding survey findings, constraints and utility risks.
• Maintain clear records of survey findings, known and suspected services, residual risks, verification status, briefings, permits, inspections, non-conformances and lessons learned.
• Support incident investigations, near-miss reviews and lessons learned relating to utility strikes, service damage, unsafe excavation or overhead service risks.
• Promote a strong safety culture where teams actively plan, verify and protect before breaking ground or working near overhead services.

What you stand to gain

This happens after the successful application

1. Screening of applications – careful review and evaluation of submitted documents

2. Decision, whether to invite an applicant to an interview

3. Getting to know the candidate in a virtual or personal setting – the number of interviews may vary depending on the position

4. Welcome to STRABAG SE– clarifying the offer and the final details regarding the candidate’s entry

At STRABAG around 89,000 people working on progress at more than 2,400 locations worldwide. Uniqueness and individual strengths characterise both our projects and each of us as individuals. Whether its building construction, civil engineering, road construction, underground engineering, bridge building, tunnelling, construction material production, project development or building management – we are always one step ahead so that we can become the most innovative and sustainable construction technology company in Europe. Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities are integral to this, who we are as a company and how we work.

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