Site Agent (Construction)
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Duties & Responsibilities
Job Position: Site Agent (Construction)
Ref: 5053
Location: Eastern Cape
Salary: Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
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Qualifications/certifications required:
- Tertiary Degree or Diploma
- Professional registration and statutory appointment SACPCMP (Construction Manager)
- Minimum of 5 years technical experience
- Minimum of 3 years managerial experience
- Willing to travel and work long hours
IT skills:
- Word PowerPoint Excel Outlook and One Note (diary management)
- Build Smart
- SharePoint
Management skills:
- Change management
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Team morale and effectiveness
- Delegation
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Analytical
- Collaboration
- Communication written and verbal
- Conflict management
- Deadlines achievement
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Problem solving
- Telephone etiquette
- Planning and organising
- Interviewing skills
- Facilitation and presentation skills
- Train the Trainer
Technical skills:
- Bill of Quantities interpretation
- BCEA understanding
- Construction industry standards
- Construction programming
- Contracts understanding
- Build statutory requirements
- Cost reporting
- Construction material and supplier knowledge
- Drawings understanding
- Financial acumen
- Industry knowledge and trends
- IR understanding
- Local municipality understanding
- Measurement
- Plants and tools understanding
- Project costing
- Report writing
- Risk assessment
- Setting out
- Stock management
- Structural understanding
- Wet trades understanding
Key Performance Areas:
Promoting managing enforcing and monitoring of HSE requirements onsite
- Ensure safe working environment as per OHS Act and Construction regulations
- Ensure discipline and compliance amongst site team and sub-contractors
- Active participation in risk management and incident case management
- Active participation in HSE committee meetings
Taking complete responsibility and accountability for the overall quality compliance of the project under control:
- Extensive knowledge of the project specifications
- Complete comprehension of the company quality system as well as the associated compliance documentation i.e project quality plans quality control plans work instructions and associated checklists and registers
- Assist and oversee the implementation and maintenance of the quality management system
- Manage and control non-conformities by participation and regular liaising with the quality department
- Approval of works as contemplated by quality control plans and relevant checklists
- Specific checks on surveying and setting out
- Discussions with project team in terms of the effectiveness of control measures
Production: Drives short and long term planning and programming:
- Compile detailed contract programme at outset of project in conjunction with detailed method statements information required schedule and long-lead schedule
- Update and monitor contract programme on at least a monthly basis
- Supervise the compiling and updating of short-term programmes by Foremen on at least fortnightly basis
- Compile recovery programme where slippage experienced and practice customer focused approach to delivery project within contractual timelines
- Conduct regular planning meetings with site staff
- Conduct subcontractor start-up meetings and weekly subcontractor planning meetings
Manage and monitor project costs ensuring profit optimisation:
- Assist QS in compiling the project life cycle documentation at project start-up to assess financial risks
- Assist QS in the compiling of the CSS report and attend all CSS meetings
- Monitor actual contract costs versus agreed budgets and monitor material/labour and subcontractor budget
- Maximise monthly cashflow and turnover through production early procurement and assist QS with claim
- Have a thorough understanding of the contract documentation including BoQ and implementation thereof
Customer / stakeholder management:
- Maintain professional relationships with client consultant subcontractor and supplier stakeholders
- Ensure team conduct in accordance with brand and company standard
- Ensure team performance contributes to positive customer experience and customer satisfaction metrics
- Manage site staff and workers according to companys values developing and mentoring them
Desired Experience & Qualification
Qualifications/certifications required:
- Tertiary Degree or Diploma
- Professional registration and statutory appointment SACPCMP (Construction Manager)
- Minimum of 5 years technical experience
- Minimum of 3 years managerial experience
- Willing to travel and work long hours
IT skills:
- Word PowerPoint Excel Outlook and One Note (diary management)
- Build Smart
- SharePoint
Management skills:
- Change management
- Managing performance
- Mentoring skills
- Team morale and effectiveness
- Delegation
Personal effectiveness skills:
- Analytical
- Collaboration
- Communication written and verbal
- Conflict management
- Deadlines achievement
- Ethics and confidentiality
- Problem solving
- Telephone etiquette
- Planning and organising
- Interviewing skills
- Facilitation and presentation skills
- Train the Trainer
Technical skills:
- Bill of Quantities interpretation
- BCEA understanding
- Construction industry standards
- Construction programming
- Contracts understanding
- Build statutory requirements
- Cost reporting
- Construction material and supplier knowledge
- Drawings understanding
- Financial acumen
- Industry knowledge and trends
- IR understanding
- Local municipality understanding
- Measurement
- Plants and tools understanding
- Project costing
- Report writing
- Risk assessment
- Setting out
- Stock management
- Structural understanding
- Wet trades understanding
Key Performance Areas:
Promoting managing enforcing and monitoring of HSE requirements onsite
- Ensure safe working environment as per OHS Act and Construction regulations
- Ensure discipline and compliance amongst site team and sub-contractors
- Active participation in risk management and incident case management
- Active participation in HSE committee meetings
Taking complete responsibility and accountability for the overall quality compliance of the project under control:
- Extensive knowledge of the project specifications
- Complete comprehension of the company quality system as well as the associated compliance documentation i.e project quality plans quality control plans work instructions and associated checklists and registers
- Assist and oversee the implementation and maintenance of the quality management system
- Manage and control non-conformities by participation and regular liaising with the quality department
- Approval of works as contemplated by quality control plans and relevant checklists
- Specific checks on surveying and setting out
- Discussions with project team in terms of the effectiveness of control measures
Production: Drives short and long term planning and programming:
- Compile detailed contract programme at outset of project in conjunction with detailed method statements information required schedule and long-lead schedule
- Update and monitor contract programme on at least a monthly basis
- Supervise the compiling and updating of short-term programmes by Foremen on at least fortnightly basis
- Compile recovery programme where slippage experienced and practice customer focused approach to delivery project within contractual timelines
- Conduct regular planning meetings with site staff
- Conduct subcontractor start-up meetings and weekly subcontractor planning meetings
Manage and monitor project costs ensuring profit optimisation:
- Assist QS in compiling the project life cycle documentation at project start-up to assess financial risks
- Assist QS in the compiling of the CSS report and attend all CSS meetings
- Monitor actual contract costs versus agreed budgets and monitor material/labour and subcontractor budget
- Maximise monthly cashflow and turnover through production early procurement and assist QS with claim
- Have a thorough understanding of the contract documentation including BoQ and implementation thereof
Customer / stakeholder management:
- Maintain professional relationships with client consultant subcontractor and supplier stakeholders
- Ensure team conduct in accordance with brand and company standard
- Ensure team performance contributes to positive customer experience and customer satisfaction metrics
- Manage site staff and workers according to companys values developing and mentoring them
Package & Remuneration
Negotiable commensurate with qualification and experience
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
