General Foremen

General Foreman

Location: Leeds

Salary: Competitive Hourly Pay plus package including;

22 days holiday + bank holidays
Company Sick Pay
Excellent training & development opportunities, provided by our award nominated in house Training team
Company Pension and Death in Service scheme

Summary

A successful Civil Engineering and Building solutions company are on the lookout for 2 General Foremen, to join our multi-disciplinary team in Leeds.

This position is predominantly based around the North Yorkshire area but will require some flexibility in working away.

You will be part of a successful and growing business with over 300 permanent staff based across the UK and over 30 years' worth of expertise in the Civil Engineering sector.

As a General Foreman you will be responsible for ensuring an effective deployment of personnel, plant, subcontractors and equipment to achieve the allocated site activities within the allowed programme period.

You will be working on the Wales & Western CAM Framework for Network Rail, based from their depot in Leeds, undertaking railway maintenance work, including but not limited to Civils and Earthworks.

The main functions of your role will be to:

- Carry out inductions, daily site briefings and daily inspections, recording any changes to methods of work or site conditions
- Organise, motivate and supervise your site operatives and subcontractors at all times
- Have a full understanding of work objectives, programmes and project details to ensure the contract is carried out correctly to timescales, mark-up programmes and drawings with the progress on a weekly basis
- Promote and implement safety arrangements (including close call reporting) and methods of working to ensure compliance with CML Health and Safety, Quality and Environmental policies, making any suggestions to ensure a safe site
- Maintain and record daily site records, returns, ID, and any additional works found, reporting these to the Project or Site Manager, to be returned to Head Office
- Liaise with the Site and Project Manager and Site Engineer on any necessary changes to site activities
- Identify any further training needs and review competencies of site personnel

The perfect candidate will have:

Essential

- A background in Civil Engineering/ Earthworks projects
- Good communication
- Experience and competence of multiple tickets (PASMA, Water, Chainsaw)
- SSSTS
- COSS

Preferred competencies:
- PTS
- First Aid
- Machine tickets and experience

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing of Site members are at the forefront of what our clients does. With this in mind, as a rule we will only hire site members who live within one hours' drive of the office, so please be mindful of this before applying.

All offers are subject to two employment references, a Drugs & Alcohol and medical test and driver's license check.

Navartis Ltd is a specialist recruitment company supplying highly skilled technical and management professionals within the global Transportation, Civil Engineering & Utility industries, if you are seeking a new position our recruitment team can locate the opportunity to suit your needs.