We're looking for a General Foreperson to join our Regional Civils team based in Bridgewater Tidal Barrier, Somerset, to deliver one of England's biggest flood defence schemes, The Bridgwater Tidal Barrier.

Location: Bridgewater, Somerset

Business Area: Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks – Regional Civils

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

What will you be responsible for?

As a General Foreperson, you'll be working within the Environment Agency team ensuring site works are planned, coordinated, and undertaken in a safe, timely and cost-efficient manner in accordance with the relevant project plans, design drawings, specification, and the programme.

Your day to day will include:

• Ensure full compliance with Kier procedures and contribute to the development of internal teams and best practices.
• ensuring delivery to programme, budget and quality standards
• Plan and coordinate labour, plant, materials and subcontractors, maintaining safe and efficient site logistics.
• coordinate the scheduling of workers, materials, and equipment to ensure that work is completed on time, across multiple work fronts
• oversee the daily operations, coordinate with subcontractors, and maintain effective communication with the site management team. 
• Ensuring that effective corrective actions are taken on identified problems.
• Maintain accurate site records, reporting, and support programme updates while identifying and managing construction risks or design changes.

 Who are we looking for?

This role of General Foreperson is great for you if:

• Previous experience working with main contractor in on Civils/Marine projects
• Strong leadership skills, a proactive mindset and solid technical knowledge across a broad range of civil engineering disciplines
• Strong knowledge of construction processes, materials, and industry standards
• You have Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card – Experienced Supervisor or Manager.
• You have Site Manager Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS).

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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