Site Agent

Project overview

Team leadership and core duties

• Motivate the section team, manage performance, monitor competency, and provide training or coaching as needed.
• Support project sustainability activities and maintain a focus on zero harm.
• Ensure resources are allocated to the works section at appropriate competency levels.

Health, safety, and environment

• Set health, safety, and environmental targets and KPIs and monitor performance.
• Carry out periodic safety and environmental tours in line with the project plan.
• Assist with incident investigations and information gathering.
• Lead periodic risk reviews, record outcomes in the project risk register, and monitor the health and safety management system.
• Keep up to date with legislative changes and cascade information to the team.

Quality and productivity

• Set quality and productivity targets and monitor performance against project objectives.
• Ensure site audits are undertaken, act on findings, and implement systems to manage construction quality.
• Own section handover documentation and contribute to improvement working groups.
• Monitor progress, analyse resourced programmes, manage subcontractor performance, and produce operational target programmes.
• Chair short-interval control meetings to review site performance.

Commercial duties

• Set commercial targets and report at weekly project meetings.
• Identify improvement areas, allocate actions, and support subcontractor procurement.
• Advise on commercial aspects and preferred attendances.

Essential requirements

• Able to communicate safe systems of work clearly, implement improvements, and stop operations when necessary.
• Able to take ownership, manage a team, communicate outcomes clearly, and cascade key messages.
• Flexible to work unsociable hours or nights as required by the programme.
• Able to work on own initiative and make informed decisions to resolve issues.
• Current driving licence and CSCS Card required.
• SMSTS qualification required.
• Strong team leadership and ability to work independently without supervision.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills; good report writing and IT skills.
• Understands method statements and can coach others in their production.
• Understands and can guide others in accident and incident investigation.

Work location

• Project work is at the Willowdale substation in Aberdeen.