General Foreman

We're looking for a General Foreman to join our East West Rail team in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, helping to create a new rail link between Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Cambridge.

Working closely with site teams and project stakeholders, you'll help deliver works safely, efficiently and to the highest standards. You'll also support the development of a collaborative, high-performing team culture while preparing the project for future civils and programme delivery works.

Location: St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Hours: 45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a General Foreman on our East West Rail project, you'll play a key role in leading site teams and ensuring work is delivered safely on time and within budget.

Your day to day will include:

• Supervising and coordinating site teams, providing clear direction on work priorities
• Planning operations to deliver safe systems of work and promoting a strong safety culture through toolbox talks and site inspections
• Coordinating labour, equipment, and materials to meet project milestones
• Monitoring costs and resources, identifying potential delays and implementing corrective actions
• Ensuring work is completed in accordance with drawings, specifications, and standards while minimising waste and downtime

What are we looking for?

This role of General Foreman is ideal if you:

• Have experience leading site teams on construction or civil engineering projects.
• Understand CDM Regulations and always put safety first on site.
• Can organise labour, plant and materials to keep work running smoothly.
• Have experience tracking progress and helping projects stay on schedule and within budget.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues, clients and subcontractor

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.