Site Agent - Leakage

GMC Utilities Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GMC is seeking an experienced Site Agent to join our Leakage team in Ireland, covering Dublin, Louth, Meath, Wicklow & Kildare. The role focuses on delivering projects on time and within budget, with a strong emphasis on health and safety, quality, and client engagement.

The successful candidate will manage multiple site activities, read and amend drawings, mentor junior staff, and collaborate with contracts managers to ensure efficient resource use and smooth project delivery.

Qualifications

• Full clean driving license is essential.
• Qualification in engineering or equivalent is desirable.
• Experience with civils, drainage, or utilities is preferred.
• Ability to read designs and manage site activities.

Responsibilities

• Run multiple projects within urban and rural environments.
• Liaise with Clients and Client Representatives to enable delivery and build relationships.
• Review drawings with a high level of detail and amend designs accordingly.
• Create leadership within the project site team and manage resources.
• Monitor progress to ensure on-time delivery within budget.
• Ensure health and safety compliance and HSQE requirements.
• Liaise with Local Authorities for inspections.
• Provide status reports to Clients and act as first point of contact.
• Quality control of works and efficient admin tasks.

Skills

Full clean driving license

Read designs

Team leadership

Communication skills

Computer literacy

Education

Engineering qualification or equivalent

Job description

The Role.

GMC are currently looking for an experienced Site Agent to join our Leakage team.

The successful Site Agent will be supporting the delivery of projects across all aspects of the business from a construction point of view. The Site Agent will be responsible for delivering projects in accordance with pre-agreed timelines and budget frameworks. A strong ethos on health and safety, compliance, reporting, and documentation are essential qualities.

This role will cover projects across Dublin, Louth, Meath, Wicklow & Kildare.

Key Duties and Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for running numerous projects within urban and rural environments.
• Liaising and corresponding with Clients and Client Representatives to enable the successful delivery of projects and building of relationships.
• Reviewing drawings with a high level of detail.
• Amending designs in line with feedback received.
• Create an environment of leadership within the project site team.
• Liaising with Contracts Manager and Site Agents to manage work and site resource requirements.
• Ensuring customers’ expectations are fulfilled whilst building confidence and trust.
• Interrogating & continuously improving project processes.
• Apply new technology in an innovative way to create new services and streamline delivery processes.
• Mentor designers and identify training needs for junior site team.
• Monitor progress of site work, ensuring work is completed on time and within budget.
• Planning and overseeing the delivery of materials and manage any discrepancies where appropriate.
• Ensuring that all work complies with client requirements and safety legislation alongside other legal requirements.
• Responsible for overseeing the traffic management as well as health and safety on-site and ensuring all safety checks are carried out.
• Liaise with Local Authorities with the inspection of footway conditions prior and post installation works.
• Liaise with the workflow department regarding the programming and scheduling of work.
• Provide Clients with a status report and act as first point of contact for members of the public and sub-contractors.
• Professionally handle complaints received from customers regarding carried out work.
• Collaborate with clients to enable them to maximise the value of their infrastructure.
• Quality control of works.
• Manage required administrative tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Ad hoc tasks as required.

The Candidate: Required Experience and Competencies:

• Full clean driver’s license essential.
• A qualification in engineering or equivalent is desirable.
• Civils, drainage, or utilities (water & electricity) experience.
• Previous experience and the ability to read designs.
• Commercially aware of projects costs.
• Experience with site activities and multiple teams.
• Good knowledge of HSQE requirements.
• Good knowledge of ground support systems.
• Computer literate.
• Confident, motivated and can work independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines.
• Time management abilities to meet targets.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• Integrity and respect for confidentiality and privacy.

Become a part of something bigger.

At the heart of GMC is our people, from engineers through to customer service and we aim to work collaboratively towards our common goals.

GMC is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to recruit and retain like-minded people from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of expertise. If you require any specific accommodations, we will make every reasonable effort to support you throughout the recruitment and selection process. Please contact us [e-mail].

In GMC we foster a work culture that promotes collaboration and learning, building an environment where our people have the capacity to maximise their potential whilst gaining the opportunity to continuously develop.

Our Future.

Since the founding of GMC in 1981 by Gerry McCloskey, GMC has grown to be Ireland’s leading Civils and Utilities company and the future for GMC is bright. We have engaged with our staff and other stakeholders to agree and publish our core values.

One of our core values is to “Focus on the Future”.

Our growth to date reflects the confidence that our customers have in our service delivery, in the innovative approach that we bring to how we do our work, and to our culture of safety and quality.

We have ambitious plans to develop our footprint in Ireland and overseas but understand that every decision we make contributes to people’s quality of life throughout generations, and we don't take that responsibility lightly as we build Ireland’s infrastructure of tomorrow, today.