Agent

We're looking for an Agent to join our rail team based in Oxford. Oxford Station Phase 2 works is a multi-discipline station upgrade project that will increase station capacity (constructing an additional platform) and improve road and pedestrian infrastructure (widened Botley Road and path / cycle ways), these works will require replacement of an existing 4 road railway bridge and associated additional spans over road, highway lowering and realignment. A programme of complicated utilities diversions are required to facilitate these works. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire

Hours: 42.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Agent, you'll be working within the Kier Rail team, assisting the Oxford team and with Network Rail, taking ownership of a project by managing resources (people, finance and physical assets) in a safe and timely manner to the required quality.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading a significant section of the project as the Site Agent, supporting the implementation and monitoring of health & safety policies and procedures in accordance with Kier and Network Rail standards
• Supporting the implementation and monitoring of performance excellence, promoting integrated working with other members within the project, creating a one-team ethos, including development of team members
• Taking full ownership and accountability for cost management of your project, ensuring robust control of target cost, actual costs and forecasts through commercial awareness
• Ensuring all labour, plant, materials and supply chain resources are accurately recorded, identifying areas of opportunity and improvement
• Creating a programme planning and measuring the day-to-day activities and medium term plan against the contract programme

What are we looking for?

This role of Agent is great for you if:

• You hold experience in a similar level role within rail, construction or civils, along with the relevant qualifications and a chartered member of the ICE (or working towards)
• Proven capability working on Network Rail projects, or in a comparable setting, able to take the lead with client interfaces
• Able to establish project requirements and drive the team to deliver the outcomes in terms of quality, cost and programme

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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