Overview


Assistant Site Manager – Plymouth
Job Description

You are responsible to your Line Manager stated below for the execution of your individual job responsibilities.

You shall:

  • support your Manager and the staff under your control.
  • maintain a good working relationship with Client and associated personnel.
  • manage and control your section of the work according to agreed programmes and
  • be conversant with all drawings, specifications, and related information for these works.

To cover your absence from site during holiday periods, you are to handover your duties to a delegate agreed with your Line Manager.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

The Site Engineer shall be responsible to the Delivery Project Manager for ensuring the smooth and efficient running of all construction activities on site. Apart from Health and safety obligations the Site Engineer duties include but are not limited to:

  • Liaison with the Site Manager, Safety Supervisor, Safety Advisor and Environmental Manager to ensure that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are met.
  • Liaison with the Project Team to produce:
    • Method Statements
    • Weekly Programmes
    • Inspection and Test Plans and Check Sheets
    • Daily Diaries
    • Setting Out
    • Update and maintain the site loadings drawing
  • Arrange for the design and checking of Temporary Works.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Safety

We expect all our people to perform to the highest standards in the management of Occupational Safety, Health, Environment and Process Safety Risks. We expect you to implement and maintain all Safe Systems of Work in-line with the Costain Way and any relevant client standards ensuring that those that we work with and others and the Environment around us are not adversely affected by our activities.

Quality

  • Promote a positive Quality culture of Do It Right, first time, every time.
  • Comply with the Costain Way Must Dos and gates.
  • Complete Quality records and process control documents (as required by role) eg. Quality Plans, Inspection and Test Planning, testing regimes, Quality readiness reviews.
  • Report any non-conformance to generate timely action and prevent recurrence.
  • Proactively assist with improvement. Investigate where significant failures have occurred to identify root cause and learning opportunities, Lessons learnt.

System Management

You are responsible for implementing and maintaining the Contract Management Plan requirements for your section of the works. This shall include the generation of System Records that show compliance with the Plans. This may include auditing and surveillance.

Your attention is drawn to the Policy and Objectives Statements for this project.

Be aware of their content. These Policy Statements may be seen on the Main Notice Board and site notice board.

Authority

Your authority is that detailed in the current issue of the signature authorisation list.

Qualifications

  • Degree level/HNC/HND qualification in Civil Engineering and relevant professional experience
  • SMSTS
  • CSCS
  • Driving licence

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About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising 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 optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview .

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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