What you'll be doing
- Attend periodic project reviews / project meetings
- Maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)
- Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholders
- Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost-effective decisions in line with overall strategy
- Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
- Specify, understand and implement technical information and drawings into delivery
- Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in legislation
- Responsible for the safety and welfare of the general public, employees and supply chain
- Support periodic Safety & Environmental Tours/promote observation and safety
initiatives
- Monitor effectiveness of the H&S Management System and suggest improvement solutions
- Write and understand RAMS
- Identifying, raising and reporting risks and hazards
- Support incident and H&S responses
- Understand, control and issue safety documentation
- Completion of audits
- Setting people to work
- Log and escalate any issues that cannot be resolved at delegated level of
authority
- Management of subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that contractual arrangements are achieved
- Help to ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project
plans, such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled deadlines
- Follow targets/KPI’s in line with project objectives and monitor performance
- Help to ensure assurance activities (audits) are undertaken and take appropriate
action on findings
- Contribute towards workshops that cover the principles of continuous
improvement
- Awareness of cost / budget
- Awareness of commercial impact
- Escalation of commercial change
- Requestion of plant and materials
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are desirable:
- Experience in implementing safe systems of work
- Experience in managing risks and change processes
- Good understanding of the standard forms of contracts
- Proficient in commercial/project management communications
- Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the organisation
- Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business and be able to negotiate and influence
- Able to undertake work in high pressure situations with a flexible attitude
- A record of a solutions-based approach to problem solving
- Demonstrate awareness and support of the benefits of diversity and inclusion
- Identify and drive personal development
- Proficient on O365
The candidate is likely to have the following:
- Holds or working towards a formal qualification in construction/engineering or
equivalent industry experience
- Holds CSCS and SSSTS or equivalent
Why work for us
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…
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com