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Job No. BBUK13797
Highways
Operational Specialists
As a Maintenance Supervisor, you’ll ensure the safe and efficient delivery of maintenance activities across your geographical area of the M25 network.
Your team will be responsible for maintaining linear assets including pavement, VRS, barriers and fences, signs and lines.
Managing a team of operatives and overseeing the work of subcontractors, you’ll help maintain the safety and compliance of all works activities. Your role will involve planning routine and cyclical works, scouting defects to
assess requirements, carrying out daily briefings and debriefings, and ensuring sufficient resources are in place to deliver works safely and on time.
You’ll also play an active role in driving continuous improvement, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring accurate and timely updates to the Maintenance Management System.
Your effective leadership will support the long-term success of the M25 network, ensuring it remains safe, resilient and in top condition.
Maintenance Supervision:
• Ensure efficient supervision of all work activities, including that of subcontractors.
• Ensure all required information is available prior to works
commencing, including raising permits where necessary.
• Scout defects to determine exact requirements for rectification
• Plan routine/cyclical works through pre-scouting areas before closures
• Update the Maintenance Management System to capture all relevant data of works activities.
• Ensure sufficient resources are in place to deliver all works activities safely and on time.
• Prepare and deliver daily work briefings to operatives and subcontractors, outlining methodology, hazards, risks, and control measures.
• Deliver detailed debriefs at the end of each shift to identify issues and incorporate lessons learned into future activities.
• Support the use of data devices amongst the team to ensure accurate input for reporting and record-keeping.
• Support routine vehicle checks, maintain accurate driving records, and manage vehicle/plant defect reporting and rectification in line with CPS procedures.
• Raise SCI’s as required
• Participate in the development of the Annual Maintenance plan to ensure it is accurate and achievable.
Safety and Compliance:
• Drive Zero Harm objectives by raising risk awareness, mitigating hazards, and fostering a proactive safety culture across the maintenance team and subcontractors.
• Lead by example to ensure all activities meet safety standards and comply with systems, processes, and procedures.
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network, reporting these accordingly.
Leadership:
• Manage day-to-day people management tasks, including performance monitoring, absence management, overtime, and annual leave requests.
• Support the growth and development of team members through ongoing feedback, training, and support.
• Manage rotas to ensure sufficient staffing to carry out tasks.
• Manage the performance of the team, including carrying out Performance Development Reviews (PDRs), and implementing Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) where required.
• Ensure regular internal and external communication with the team and deliver toolbox talks on a regular basis.
Continuous Improvement & Sustainability:
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement, empowering teams to explore new ideas and solutions to enhance performance.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities
• Support the achievement of sustainability objectives, ensuring maintenance activities align with environmental best practices and Connect Plus Services’ long-term goals.
• Appropriate CSCS qualification
• SMSTS/SSSTS
• Experience in the delivery of a highways maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
• Team leadership and management experience driving performance and productivity
• Strong communication skills
• Strong customer focused mindset
Working Arrangements
The role follows a rotating shift pattern, working Monday to Friday, with two weeks of days and two weeks of nights.
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
