Balfour Beatty plc
Sub Agent
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Sub Agent to join our team on a major pumping station project in Benacre. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in delivering critical infrastructure works, leading a dedicated site team and ensuring the safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of a key section of the project.
As Sub Agent, you will take responsibility for managing and controlling a defined section of the works within your discipline, ensuring delivery in line with programme, budget, quality, and safety requirements. You will lead and support a team of Section Engineers and Site Engineers, providing direction, technical guidance, and effective coordination to drive performance and achieve project objectives.
If you are a motivated construction professional with experience delivering complex civil engineering projects and a passion for leading teams on site, we would love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
- Leading and controlling a section of the pumping station works, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery.
- Managing and developing a team of Section Engineers and Site Engineers, providing technical guidance and mentoring.
- Reviewing and improving Method Statements and Risk Assessments to ensure robust planning and safe execution of works.
- Taking ownership of Permits to Work, including Confined Space and Hot Works permits, ensuring full compliance with site procedures.
- Promoting a strong safety culture by undertaking site audits, investigating incidents, and identifying improvements from audits, near misses, and lessons learned.
- Coordinating and implementing temporary works requirements, ensuring designs and programmes are delivered to meet construction timescales.
- Resolving technical and construction challenges, liaising with designers and stakeholders to deliver practical engineering solutions.
- Overseeing quality assurance processes, including inspections, materials approvals, NCR management, and compliance with specifications.
- Managing the production, review, and submission of handover documentation, ensuring works are completed to the required standards.
- Driving continuous improvement by analysing performance trends, identifying opportunities to reduce non-conformances, and enhancing project delivery.
- Conducting site inspections and audits to ensure works and documentation meet contractual, regulatory, and company requirements.
- Supporting the development of less experienced engineers through coaching, training, and sharing industry best practice.
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Who we're looking for
- Proven experience delivering civil engineering or infrastructure projects in a site management role, with the ability to lead teams and manage work packages safely and efficiently.
- Strong understanding of health, safety and environmental requirements, including method statements, risk assessments, permit-to-work systems, and current H&S legislation.
- Experience developing safe systems of work and contributing to accident and incident investigations, with a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a track record of coaching engineers, managing teams, and driving high performance on site.
- Strong technical knowledge of construction processes, setting out techniques, and quality assurance requirements, with the ability to resolve technical challenges effectively.
- Experience producing and managing construction programmes, allocating resources, monitoring KPIs, and delivering works to programme and budget.
- Good understanding of handover requirements, certification processes, and business management systems, with experience maintaining accurate project records and documentation.
- A solution-oriented mindset, able to work independently, take ownership of responsibilities, and identify opportunities to improve project outcomes.
- Knowledge of commercial and procurement processes, including maintaining records to support contractual and commercial requirements.
- Holds a valid CSCS Card and driving licence, with SSSTS or SMSTS qualification. Professional accreditation (e.g. ICE or IHT) is desirable.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
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- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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