The Service Avoidance & Statutory Undertaker Coordinator will be the Sisk representative responsible for coordinating service and utility avoidance across the project and for providing a central point of control for the management of the S5 High Risk Focus Area associated with underground and overhead services.

The role will ensure that existing and proposed services are identified, located, verified, communicated and managed before and during construction.

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Service Avoidance Co-ordinator

The Service Avoidance Co-ordinator will take day to day ownership of service avoidance across the project, acting as the focal point for the management of underground and overhead services and supporting the effective management of Sisk's S5 service avoidance risk.

The role will coordinate service avoidance activities between the Project Lead, Package Managers, Utility Surveyors, Responsible Supervisors, Temporary Works, Logistics and the wider supply chain.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Manage and coordinate the project approach to underground and overhead service avoidance, ensuring appropriate controls are incorporated into planning, RAMS, Safe Plans of Action (SPAs) and permits.
• Maintain a clear working knowledge of HSG47 principles, safe digging practices, service locating techniques, exclusion zones and the appropriate use of CAT & Genny (CATg4+), utility surveys, trial holes and physical verification.
• Own and maintain the Master Services Drawing, collating Statutory Undertaker records, utility surveys, trial hole information, diversion details and newly identified services to provide the Delivery Team with current utility information.
• Identify discrepancies between utility records, surveys, site conditions and construction proposals and coordinate further investigation or verification where required.
• Coordinate with Statutory Undertakers and affected service providers regarding diversions, protection, isolations, disconnections and other service related requirements.
• Support the Sisk Utility Surveyors with the preparation and implementation of Permits to Break Ground, including determining the appropriate Red or Green Permit and reviewing the completeness of supporting service information.
• Review and approve permits where authorised, confirming that services, exclusion zones, survey information, trial holes, RAMS and SPAs adequately reflect the proposed works and known site conditions.
• Manage and maintain the project's service avoidance and permit information through the relevant project information management/digital platform, including Dalux.
• Conduct regular site inspections and assurance reviews to confirm that permits, RAMS, SPAs and service avoidance controls are being correctly implemented and remain appropriate as the work progresses.
• Work closely with Package Managers and the Delivery Team to ensure service avoidance requirements are properly integrated into construction sequencing and do not become isolated from the wider planning and delivery of the works.

Statutory Undertaker Co-ordinator (Package Management)

The role includes coordination of utility diversion packages on the project consisting of:

• Manage utility diversion packages from initial planning and design coordination through to delivery, commissioning and close out. (C2-C9 Process)
• Coordinate interfaces between Sisk, Statutory Undertakers, utility contractors, designers, Package Managers and the wider Delivery Team.
• Maintain a Utility Diversion Tracker, monitoring approvals, enabling works, key dates, dependencies, constraints and programme interfaces.
• Coordinate and review RAMS, SPAs and permits, ensuring service avoidance controls, isolations, exclusion zones and safe working requirements are adequately addressed.
• Coordinate and lead utility diversion pre-start meetings, ensuring scope, responsibilities, access, existing services, methodology, supervision and emergency arrangements are understood before commencement.
• Monitor diversion works through delivery until close out.

HSG47 Knowledge and Safe Working Techniques

The role will require clear practical understanding of HSG47, avoiding danger from underground services, and be capable of applying its principles to construction activities involving breaking ground.

• Obtaining and reviewing utility records before intrusive works commence.
• Recognising the limitations of existing utility records and drawings rather than assuming records accurately represent site conditions.
• Identifying all potential asset owners, including electricity, gas, water, drainage, telecommunications and private services.
• Assessing proposed excavation and breaking ground activities against known and suspected services.
• Establishing where further investigation, surveying, isolation, protection or diversion is required.
• The coordinator shall understand how utility records, gCAT4+/Genny detection, GPR/EML survey information and physical verification are brought together to establish confidence in utility positions.

Competence & Training

• • Strong working knowledge of HSG47 – Avoiding danger from underground services.
  • Practical knowledge of gCAT4+ principles and their limitations.
  • Working knowledge of PAS 128 utility survey classifications and their application.
  • Ability to interpret Statutory Undertaker drawings, utility surveys and construction drawings.
  • Knowledge of safe digging and trial hole techniques.
  • Understanding of utility exclusion zones and isolation requirements.
  • Ability to review and challenge RAMS, SPAs and permit controls.
  • Experience coordinating construction works involving existing live utilities.
  • Strong planning, programme management
  • Ability to coordinate several utility companies / diversion workstreams concurrently.
  • CSCS
  • SSSTS
  • First Aid (Desirable)

• Competitive Salary   

• Company Car or Car Allowance  

• 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)    

• Employer pension     

• Competitive mileage rate     

• Travel expenses     

• Flexible and remote working     

• Enhanced parental leave     

• Professional and Educational development     

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*The full job specification is available on request     

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