Tasks

• Lead and coordinate daily site activities across Routeways utility and highway work fronts.
• Manage self-delivery operatives, subcontractors, and specialist suppliers, ensuring resources are effectively allocated and daily production targets are achieved.
• Coordinate works undertaken by statutory utility providers, ensuring their activities are safely integrated with HARP works and that interfaces with other contractors and construction activities are effectively managed.
• Supervise utility diversion, connection, and asset-protection works, ensuring works are completed in accordance with approved designs, permits, specifications, and statutory requirements.
• Support the delivery of highway construction, improvement, access, and reinstatement works, including coordination of traffic management arrangements, lane closures, and diversions.
• Brief RAMS and task-specific requirements to site teams, undertake point-of-work risk assessments, and ensure safe systems of work are implemented and maintained.
• Ensure operatives and subcontractors are appropriately trained, competent, and authorised for the activities they are undertaking.
• Promote a strong safety culture and set clear expectations for safe, accountable, and professional behaviours across all work fronts.
• Liaise closely with Engineering to ensure works are delivered in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, permits, and relevant standards.
• Ensure temporary works requirements are identified and that activities are covered by the appropriate temporary works designs, checks, and permits before commencing.
• Coordinate permit requirements, including permits to dig, excavation controls, and other project-specific permits associated with Routeways activities.
• Ensure existing services are identified and protected before excavation activities commence and that appropriate utility detection and avoidance procedures are followed.
• Monitor workmanship and materials, undertake first-line quality checks, and ensure defects or non-conformances are identified, recorded, and closed out.
• Maintain accurate daily records, including site diaries, labour and plant records, progress information, utility activities, inspections, defects, reinstatement records, and other project documentation.
• Manage daily outputs, plant utilisation, and productivity, identifying constraints and escalating issues that may affect programme delivery.
• Support the planning of upcoming works through short-term and lookahead programmes, ensuring labour, plant, materials, permits, designs, and third-party requirements are identified in advance.
• Highlight potential bottlenecks or interface issues and work with the wider Routeways team to develop practical solutions and re-sequence activities where required.
• Coordinate plant, equipment, and materials required for the works, ensuring resources are available when required and efficiently utilised.
• Maintain oversight of hired equipment and Contractor-provided items, ensuring effective control, inspection, and timely off-hiring.
• Support safe excavation, lifting, temporary works, traffic management, and other higher-risk activities associated with Routeways delivery.
• Manage interfaces with members of the public, landowners, local authorities, utility companies, and other stakeholders where Routeways works affect existing roads, services, or access arrangements.
• Work collaboratively with the wider HARP delivery teams to coordinate Routeways activities with main construction works and maintain safe access to construction sites.
• Lead by example, remaining visible and accountable on site, and maintaining the standards expected across the project.