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Salary 78203
This Agent will report to the Powercare Area Manager and will work within Network Operations based in our Croydon, Surrey or Sussex depots. You will be a permanent employee in our Powercare team.
You will attract a salary of £45,883.00 and a bonus of 1%.
If you are successful, you will need to undertake a medical and DBS reference check
Close Date: 4th January 2024.
We also provide the following additional benefits
Annual Leave
Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Occupational Health support
Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
Discounted access to sports and social clubs
Employee Assistance Programme.
Job Purpose:
The Agent will be responsible to the Senior Agent for delivering excavation and reinstatement activities associated with distribution faults, small service and small works, Unmetered Connections distribution capital programme work within the UK Power Networks SPN Distribution Licence areas.
Dimensions:
Staff Circa: 1:15 Gangers/Labourers, Financial authority to approve corporate card expense claims and personal expenses and mileage following FAL limit. Authorisation to sign and approve timesheets
Principal Accountabilities:
Responsibility for all aspects of Safety, Health and Environment relevant to this role
Management and assurance of contractors including Networks term contractors and framework contractors
To carry out risk assessments and maintain safe working practices
Ensure quality of works meets with current procedures
Ensure works are carried out to meet guaranteed service standards
Be able to operate hand held IT equipment to send and receive job instructions and record site information
Be able to manage a team of ground works operatives
Be prepared to undertake other reasonable duties following the requirements of the Company
Be an ambassador for UK Power Networks.
Nature and Scope:
The Groundworks Agent will ensure that important functions of overall project delivery are in place. These include scopes of work, procurement processes, resource planning (materials and people), transport, tools and plant, project delivery, reporting and review.
The Agent will report to the Senior Agent and will work within the London Region, although there may be some requirement to work across regions to obtain best practice. The Agent will have a but is required to support the team requirements and may therefore have priorities reassigned by the Senior Agent.
The Agent's role is about achieving delivery of work in a safe, efficient and cost-effective way. You will require management of the project to ensure value for money and compliance with current legislation e.g. minimise defects, NRSWA fines and penalties.
You will required to travel anywhere within the SPN and LPN Footprint of UK Power Networks and be willing to participate in an out of hours standby rota.
Please Note: Internal candidates who are still within a probationary period must obtain the written approval of their manager, which must be submitted with their application.
Qualifications:
A Streetworks Supervisors qualification is essential.
The applicant must have experience in managing operational ground works teams, associated with electrical utilities.
A safety qualification such as IOSH Managing Safely will be required as will experience of working with the CDM regulations and ISO9001 quality processes.
Full UK Driving Licence
CSCS Supervisors card
Emergency First Aid
The following skills are not essential for the role but would be advantageous
Trench Support (deep excavation) certificate
A formal Project Management qualification.
Knowledge of Microsoft Project, the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, word and access) and project management techniques.
Please Note: Internal candidates are eligible to apply for internal positions once they have completed any contractual probationary period.
Health & Safety Responsibilities
Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.
Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.
Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.
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