Tasks
Site Supervision & Delivery
- Supervise the day-to-day delivery of highway improvement works across allocated work fronts, including direct labour and subcontractors.
- Coordinate site activities to ensure works are carried out safely, efficiently and in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, RAMS and ITP requirements.
- Plan and coordinate labour, plant and materials for upcoming activities, ensuring resources are available when required.
- Drive site productivity and progress against the short-term programme, identifying and resolving practical constraints affecting delivery.
Health, Safety & Environmental Management
- Implement and maintain safe systems of work in accordance with company procedures, approved RAMS and statutory requirements.
- Deliver daily briefings, safe starts and toolbox talks relevant to the planned activities.
- Supervise the Permit to Dig process and ensure works are coordinated with utility records, service locations and site engineering controls.
- Oversee traffic management arrangements within the work area, ensuring they are installed and maintained in accordance with approved traffic management plans.
- Monitor site activities for compliance with environmental controls, temporary works requirements and agreed working methods.
- Identify hazards, unsafe conditions and poor working practices, and take immediate corrective action where required.
Programme & Planning
- Drive the daily and short-term site programme for the allocated work fronts.
- Contribute to the preparation and review of 2-week and 6-week look-ahead programmes.
- Coordinate daily and weekly work plans with the Agent, engineers, supervisors and subcontractors to maintain an efficient sequence of works.
- Provide regular updates on progress, constraints, labour, plant, materials and upcoming resource requirements.
Engineering & Technical Support
- Work closely with Site Engineers to ensure works are set out correctly and constructed to the required line, level and specification.
- Provide practical buildability, access and sequencing input to support efficient delivery of highway improvement works.
- Coordinate interfaces associated with drainage, earthworks, kerbing, pavement construction, surfacing, utilities and other highway-related activities.
Quality Management
- Ensure works are delivered in accordance with the project quality plan, ITPs, hold points and inspection requirements.
- Carry out regular checks on workmanship, materials and completed works, raising issues where standards are not being achieved.
- Support inspections, testing, snagging and close-out activities, including provision of information required for as-built records.
Communication & Leadership
- Act as a key day-to-day point of contact on site for supervisors, labour, subcontractors and the project team.
- Promote a positive safety culture and lead by example in site standards and behaviours.
- Coordinate and support foremen, supervisors and site gangs to maintain safe and productive working.
- Escalate significant safety, quality, programme or resource issues promptly to the Agent / Construction Manager, together with proposed solutions where possible.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a General Foreman on highway or civil engineering projects.
- Strong practical background in highway improvements, including earthworks, drainage, kerbing, pavement construction and surfacing.
- Experience delivering works in or adjacent to live highway environments and working under traffic management arrangements.
- Good understanding of Permit to Dig requirements, underground services and utility coordination.
- Good working knowledge of traffic management requirements and site safety controls.
- Ability to coordinate labour, plant, materials, subcontractors and multiple work fronts effectively.
- Strong communication, leadership, organisational and problem-solving skills.
- SSSTS or SMSTS (SMSTS advantageous).
- CSCS Supervisor card or other appropriate card.
- Temporary Works Supervisor (advantageous).
- First Aid at Work (desirable).
- NRSWA Supervisor (desirable).