Costain Group
Temporary Works Coordinator
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Job Description
About the Role
This site-based role will be working under the management of the Head of Construction, who is accountable for the delivery of construction. The role is to manage temporary works to ensure all elements are delivered safely, on time, and within budget, as well as compliance with all specifications. The Temporary Works Coordinator (TWC) is responsible for ensuring that the contractor's procedures for the control of temporary works are implemented on site. The TWC is responsible for ensuring that a suitable temporary works design is prepared, checked, and implemented on site in accordance with the relevant drawings and specifications.
This will include working with a team of engineering and construction staff and all subcontractors to provide and ensure that temporary design works are carried out. Applicants with nuclear licensed experience or infrastructure utilities experience are preferred. Pre-construction involvement during project development is also required.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that the project’s procedures for the control of temporary works are implemented on site.
- Coordinate TW design with TW Designers and Checkers.
- Ensure that the various responsibilities have been allocated and accepted by the relevant parties (Designated Individual, TWS, and Construction team, etc.).
- Manage and maintain the Temporary Works Register, ensuring it is up to date and that a design brief is prepared by the site team.
- Lead on the development of Temporary Works standards solutions.
- Review Temporary Design Brief and organize TW Design Kick-off with Designer when required.
- Maintain all records relating to the final design of the Temporary Works, including drawings, calculations, and other relevant documents.
- Build trust and good relationships with the Construction site team and TWS.
- Experience in the supervision and coordination of Temporary Works on site, ideally with an internal or external accreditation.
- Contribute to work planning - Utilization of production techniques and planning tools to ensure efficient management of onsite production.
- Management of on-site supervisors, engineers, labor, and subcontractors.
- Management of Health, Safety, Environment, and wellbeing on site, including the preparation, approval, and delivery of RAMS, SSOW, permits, site inductions, and briefings, and a thorough understanding of safety, environmental, and quality management processes and regulations.
- Management of Risk and Opportunity and work with the team to proactively mitigate risks and realize opportunities.
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Qualifications
Essential:
- Experience in the supervision and coordination of Temporary Works on site.
- Thorough understanding of commercial, contractual, and procurement processes, including the NEC suite of contracts to enable effective delivery.
- Can demonstrate experience of being part of large-scale infrastructure programs of work.
- Expert knowledge of Costain processes.
- Experience of Sellafield temporary work practices.
- Hold a Degree/HND in civil/structural engineering. A lower educational level (HNC or HND) is acceptable where a very significant level of experience in a senior technical engineering role can be demonstrated.
- CITB temporary works accreditation.
- Site Managers Safety training accreditation.
- Understand the benefits of a production-based approach and how this can deliver differently.
- Are excellent communicators who can passionately share the vision to both the team and external stakeholders.
- Can work collaboratively with the team to help deliver the most holistic solutions.
- Have a can-do attitude and enthusiasm to innovate and get the job done.
Desirable:
- Ideally with an internal or external accreditation.
- Experience of nuclear licensed sites.
About Costain
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Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading-edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defense markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonizing, 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 optimized through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimization and complex program delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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