Costain Group
General Foreperson
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Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Project
The Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) project currently involves the planning, design, and construction of circa 320km of new strategic, large diameter, clean water interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure across Anglian Water’s region. The SPA Alliance is also taking on responsibility for the future interconnector pipelines, a further 260km of strategic interconnector pipelines and associated infrastructure.
We are looking for an experienced General Foreperson to sit within the Project Delivery team and drive delivery through the Project both in pre-construction and on-site delivery.
As our new General Foreperson, you’ll be responsible for the operational delivery on specific non-infra projects supporting pre-construction buildability and onsite delivery, supported by a wider delivery team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Delivery of site inductions, daily site briefings, and safety briefings to framework contractor site personnel covering appropriate health, safety, and environmental topics and ensure records of briefings are maintained
- Ensure that all works are properly planned and carried out in a safe and controlled manner and in a cost-efficient manner
- Coordinate vehicle and plant movements on site ensuring pedestrian segregation
- Promote a healthy safety culture on site, challenging behaviors, and promoting good practice
- Coordinate deliveries of materials to site and maintain site security
- Support Site Agent and Engineers in the planning of upcoming works, ensuring adequate labor, plant, and materials are available to deliver the works in line with the program
- Coordination of framework contractors’ construction activities on site ensuring interfaces are adequately managed
- Review productivity on site and support Site Agent and Planner with program
- Maintain adequate site records inclusive of daily diaries, quantities of works completed, and photographic evidence
- Support Site Engineers with completion of Inspection and Test Records
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Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Construction Industry experience
- Experience supervising subcontractors
- Understanding of Engineering principles and construction techniques
- Previous water industry experience (preferred)
- Experience of working on large complex sites
- Health and safety focused with an ability to spot hazards and challenge behaviors on site
- Conscientious with attention to detail
- Collaborative and able to work with others
- Ability to read and interpret drawings and specifications
- Able to complete detailed site records of activities completed on site inclusive of quantities
QUALIFICATIONS
- SMSTS qualification
- Gold (Supervisor) or Black (Construction Site Management) CSCS card
- Lift Supervisor
- New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) Supervisors
- EUSR National Water Hygiene Standards ‘Blue Card’
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About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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