Construction employment contract
Define groundwork duties across excavation, drainage and external works, with clear service, plant, ground-condition and technical boundaries.
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Produce accurate excavation and formation work, coordinate controlled service and drainage interfaces, and maintain safe, tidy external works handover.
Workplace context: Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering plant and excavation interfaces. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering underground services. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering weather and ground conditions. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering levels, tests and concealed work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering HSE expectations.
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The groundworker may complete work to approved levels and methods. Unidentified services, excavation-support changes, contaminated ground and design departures require site or engineering approval. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Maintained role evidence
These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for construction work.
Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
HSE context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering plant and excavation interfaces. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering underground services. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering weather and ground conditions.
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Role wording
Produce accurate excavation and formation work, coordinate controlled service and drainage interfaces, and maintain safe, tidy external works handover.
Complete assigned excavation, drainage, concrete and external works. Follow service information, permits and excavation controls. Prepare formation, bedding and materials to issued requirements. Coordinate safely with plant operators and lifting activity. Maintain access, edge protection and orderly work areas.Builder answers
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Specific clauses
The groundworker may complete work to approved levels and methods. Unidentified services, excavation-support changes, contaminated ground and design departures require site or engineering approval.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering plant and excavation interfaces.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering underground services.
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Stop in the affected area, protect it and use the site's identification and permit process before work resumes.
Only with authorised setting-out or design instruction and an updated record of the final level.
Work should also follow the project's current service-detection, permit, marking and safe-excavation controls before ground is broken.
The responsible site or design authority should verify levels, falls, interfaces and connections before the route departs from issued information.
Only for equipment covered by the employee's verified training, competence and site authorisation; groundwork experience alone is insufficient.
Stop disturbing the material, secure the area and use the project's environmental and hazardous-material escalation process before work continues.
State the normal region, travel, vehicle or mileage, accommodation and reasonable notice of reassignment.
Depending on the task, retain locations, levels, materials, services, tests, photographs, inspections and as-built information required by the project.
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