Position: Site Agent / Contract Manager
Location: Kilkenny, Waterford, Tipperary, Carlow, Offaly
Salary: €65,000 plus vehicle and package
The Role
The Site Agent will be responsible for the management of numerous civils framework projects in order to achieve required project delivery to the client’s objectives, while maintaining standards of health and safety, quality, environmental impact and cost control.
They will deliver multiple on-going projects, to the specified quality, the required programme and to the maximum commercial performance.
You will work closely with the Company Director and Site Staff to ensure that projects are completed in a safe manner whilst client’s requirements and expectations are always maintained or exceeded.
Key accountabilities
• Site Management / Supervising
• Assume responsibility for delivering projects successfully
• Deliver the work safely and without environmental incidents
• Deliver the work to the specified quality without defects
• Ensure production and implementation of Project Plans, management plans, in line with Company procedures
• Produce procurement schedules and liaise with the procurement department to ensure sites have adequate resources to complete the tasks
• Client interface
• Deliver end product to customer satisfaction
• Cost control
• Maximise project value
• Ensure detailed site diaries/records are completed
• Maintain commercial tension to drive out cost and challenge the status quo
• Endeavour to spot and highlight value engineering opportunities
Skills & experience
• Successful experience at a management engineering level with minimum of 5 years of experience in construction on site specifically in civil engineering and/or utilities
• Demonstrated application of growing commercial and contractual knowledge
• Experience of working in a cost-conscious environment
• Good people management experience
• Experience in managing subcontractors
• Significant civil engineering technology knowledge with significant previous experience