General Foreman
Location: Stanford Le Hope
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Infrastructure business for an ambitious and talented General Foreman to work on our Eastern Highways Framework.
The General Foreman will cover the supervision and coordination of site personnel and subcontractors, the reporting of all relevant site activities and managing the quality of work performed.
This is an excellent opportunity to work within a successful, growing and exciting team.
The project: Stanford Le Hope Transport Package, Essex
The project for Thurrock Borough Council is procured through the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework.
It involves the creation of a multimodal transport interchange and new railway station that will meet the needs of increased station patronage.
This will involve the demolition of the existing station building at Stanford Le Hope.
The new development will be formed on a steel framed support raft founded on pile foundations alongside the existing railway lines.
The Multimodal interchange consists of new passenger drop off provision, taxi rank, protected pedestrian walking routes, double-decker bus stops with waiting facilities and secure cycle parking spaces.
Railway Station will consist of a steel framed building to both platforms 1 and 2 with integrated pedestrian footbridge and lifts together with improved customer and commercial facilities.
Responsibilities:
As a General Foreman you will:
- Coordinate the day to day operations of the site
- Ensure adherence to relevant policies and procedures
- Control and monitor all activities on site
- Support the achievement of perfect delivery
- Ensure the daily programming of all site works is performed in accordance with the company construction program
- In conjunction with the project manager, site engineer and construction manager plan and review overall status of project(s) on an ongoing basis
- Ensure all site resource (labour, machinery, materials, sub-contractors etc) are effectively utilised and monitored in order to achieve timely completion of projects
The right applicant will have experience within large Highways / Civils with a Roads bias. NVQ 3 or 4 is preferred, as well as holding a current CSCS card.
About the Highways Team:
Our projects encompass motorway widening, congestion relief, safety improvement and bypass schemes. Recent work includes M62 Smart Motorways, Lincolnshire’s new A1073 bypass, the A1 Improvement scheme from Dishforth to Barton in North Yorkshire, and the M74 Completion Project through central Glasgow, Scotland’s largest infrastructure scheme. Under Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) schemes, we engage with our customers as early as possible to maximise innovation, efficiency and cost savings.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.