Highways Sub Agent

6437
Birmingham
Contract
£470-£500 Per Day PAYE Umbrella

Carmichaels are seeking a Sub Agent to work with a Tier 1 company on a major highways project in Birmingham. The successful candidate will have previous Tier 1 experience working on a smart motorway project.

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Work Environment
    • Prioritize the wellbeing of your engineers
    • Communicate effectively with other engineers, supervisors, enabling functions, designers, and client representatives.
    • Contribute to an effective working environment for your team.
    • Ensure language and behaviours are respectful and professional
    • Feedback to team on how we can make the workplace more pleasant for everyone. Solicit feedback from your site engineers.
    • Support and encourage development of your site engineers

 

  • Design
    • Review designs and raise any queries to the design team via TQs
    • Generate Temporary Works Design Briefs to the acceptance of the TWC
    • Production of red-line drawings for your works.

 

  • Programme and planning
    • Produce the project short term lookahead programme weekly for your works.
    • Ensure short term programmes submitted by suppliers
    • Work with the site engineers and supervisors to manage any clashes with other site works.
    • Ensure progress is recorded and compare it to planned production for your section.
    • Communicate your plan for the next 2-3 months to the wider project team
    • Plan and chair ‘readiness reviews’ for your activities

 

  • Commercial
    • Ensure site engineers keep an accurate and detailed site record for all works in your section.
    • Raise requisitions for plant and materials in a timely and accurate manor.
    • Understand the subcontract scope of works and budget and ensure that this is followed by the suppliers.
    • Manage hired plant and equipment costs to stay in line with your budget.
    • Contribute to the cost forecasts for any plant and materials in your section.

 

  • Quality
    • Understand the design specifications and drawings for your section. Challenge where relevant.
    • Generate Inspection and Test Plans for your works. Ensure the ITPs are briefed out effectively to the team. Monitor the ITP for any revisions that may be required.
    • Ensure quality records are captured and stored correctly.
    • Identify Non-Conformances and Defects and ensure they are promptly reported & closed out.
    • Generate material approvals and benchmarks.
    • Arrange and coordinate quality inspections with 3rd parties.

 

  • Safety
    • Collaborate with others to plan your works to minimise health and safety hazards.
    • Generate Risk Assessments and Method Statements for your works, ensuring that people identify and appropriately mitigate health and safety hazards. Arrange and lead Hazard ID meetings for the works.
    • Raise and administer permits you are appointed to deal with
    • Raise observations and encourage others to do so
    • Complete safety inspections and ensure the actions are closed out.
    • Set and maintain clear expectations for health and safety with your team and suppliers working on your section.
    • Be familiar with and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Health & Safety Policies and procedures.

 

  • Environment
    • Collaborate with others to plan your works to minimise environmental hazards.
    • Understand Risk Assessments and Method Statements for your works, ensuring that people identify and appropriately mitigate health and safety hazards.
    • Raise and administer permits you are appointed to deal with.
    • Raise observations and encourage others to do so
    • Complete environmental inspections and ensure the actions are closed out.
    • Set and maintain clear expectations for environmental management with your team and suppliers working on your section.
    • Identify and implement opportunities to reduce carbon associated with your section.
    • Be familiar with and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Environmental Policies and procedures.