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Agent Marine Experience
August 24, 2023 | Comments Off on Agent Marine Experience
Location: Somerset, Bridgewater
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + benefits
Responsibilities
As an Agent you'll be working within the major projects HPC team, supporting them by 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:
- Lead a significant section of the marine works, ensuring all labour, plant, materials and supply chain resources are accurately recorded.
- Support the implementation and monitoring of Performance Excellence and Health & Safety policies and procedures in accordance with Kier standards.
- Promote integrated working with other members within the project to create a one-team ethos, including development of team members.
- Take full ownership and accountability for cost management of your project, ensuring robust control of Target Cost, actual costs and forecasts through commercial awareness.
Who are we looking for?
This role of Agent is great for you if:
- You have relevant qualifications - degree level, or equivalent experience
- Experience in marine civil engineering & logistics
- Excellent communication and project management skills including leading and managing technical teams.
- 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.
- Excellent leadership and problem-solving skills.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more.
- professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
- pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
- Kier rewards - You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.
- employee referral scheme - refer a friend or family member to work for Kier
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.
Closing Date: 17 September 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.