Utilities Agent

Strabag

The Role

Overview

Lead utility package delivery, coordinating permits, inspections, and subcontractors.

Key Responsibilities

  • utility coordination
  • survey qa
  • permit compliance
  • excavation safety
  • subcontractor management
  • cost control

Tasks

-Work with the Engineering team to feed into the design requirements. -Manage all utilities interfaces, including client, third parties and all internal delivery teams. -Ensure surveys meet PAS128 quality levels; verify records and ensure that all information is captured and maintained within the live utility register. -Ensure the work complies with all permits/agreements with asset owners and local highway authorities. -Manage subcontractors’ RAMS, ITPs and records; maintain daily diaries, progress updates and change notes. Ensure that all persons, plant, equipment and materials are in accordance with the project specifications. -Enforce HSG47 and Permit-to-Dig: planning, locating/identifying services, and safe excavation methods. -Act as principal site contact with asset owners and highways authorities; ensure subcontractors comply with NRSWA/HAUC processes. -Work with the consents team to ensure that all the Planning obligations have been discharged prior to commencement and are continually met throughout the delivery. -Deliver the works in line with the budget to build. Support with the development of forecasts, and work with the commercial team to provide accurate cost monitoring.

Requirements

  • smsts
  • first aid
  • eusr
  • utilities
  • cost control
  • team management

What You Bring

-Strong health and safety culture. -Utilities delivery/agent experience on civil projects. -First Aid at Work. -SMSTS or SSSTS. -Experienced in managing teams, and managing subcontractors. -Package management experience. -Experience with cost monitoring and cost control, alongside risk management and change control. -Strong stakeholder skills and a meticulous approach to records and assurance. -Experience in working with utilities. -EUSR accreditation.

The Company

About Strabag

-It delivers complex civil engineering and building megaprojects, including highways, bridges, tunnels, and power plants. -It covers the full project lifecycle—planning, construction, operation, facility management, redevelopment, and demolition. -Its specialisms include building construction, civil engineering, infrastructure, tunnelling, and facility management. -The company operates globally through a dense network of subsidiaries, with notable work on Alpine tunnels and major airports. -It is an innovation engine, driving over 250 R&D projects and maintaining over 400 sustainability initiatives. -In its history, it built infrastructure for the Nazi regime during WWII—a notable yet darker chapter.

Sector Specialisms

Transportation Infrastructure

Road

Rail

Waterways

Tunnels

Building Construction

Civil Engineering

Industrial Plants

Power Stations

Reconstruction

Conversion

Refurbishment

Industrial Facility Service

Steel Structures

Pipeline Construction

Facility Management

Building Technology

Property Management

Refurbishment and Upgrading

Special Industrial Services

Utilities Agent at Strabag in Manchester, England, United Kingdom