Principal Site Engineer

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Where will you land?

GCC Occitanie delivers bespoke structures, public or private, new-build or renovated, across all building sectors: industry, public facilities, tertiary, healthcare, shopping centres, … local and regional. Come and take part in or lead projects worth €5M to €25M, as general contractor and/or design-build, on new-build works, rehabilitation and/or major restructuring.

What you will face: highly technical sites (enough to make you think), strong environmental impacts, short chains of command, quick decisions, autonomy and accountability.

And the position?

The position: Principal Site Engineer GO, m/f

Based in: Montpellier (34)

Reporting line: under the authority of an Operations Director

You take charge of part or all of a project and manage an extended team, including site managers whom you train and develop.

What you will do with us:

• Lead the analysis of the tender file and validate, together with your site managers and the methods department, the site organisation and the execution programme.

• Consult on and validate the choice of suppliers and subcontractors, and ensure the proper execution of works across all your operations.

• Gather the technical and financial information needed to build a claim.

• Take part in recruiting your team and ensure the integration and training of the staff under your responsibility.

• Act as a delegated authority for prevention: you place safety at the heart of your organisational decisions.

• Pass on your experience to your colleagues and prepare the technical and managerial succession of your team.

• At school, you leaned towards the technical side and went as far as a civil engineering degree

• Your first site dates back more than 5 years and you are ready to manage a project autonomously

• You see management through example and have a strong taste for training and transmission

• You are able to arbitrate and commit to technical and financial choices

• Rigour is your greatest strength in the administrative, budgetary and HR management of your teams

• Salary: depending on profile

• Bonus, profit-sharing & participation

• Holiday bonus

• Supplementary health insurance with optional additional cover

• PEG (employee share ownership) with matching contribution

Our CSR Commitments across 4 areas, including some flagship actions :

• Offer sober and sustainable solutions for our clients: innovative partnership with the company Hoffman for low-carbon concrete with a carbon footprint divided by 5,

• Guarantee good working conditions, in complete safety: workplace safety, one of GCC's fundamentals: an accident frequency rate of 6.96 in 2023,

• Limit our environmental footprint: Reduce land artificialisation: 50% of our turnover in rehabilitation/renovation by 2028,

• Unite around our CSR commitments: 100% of our supervisory staff trained in CSR.

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