About The Role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Skilled Operative to join our Balvac team working on projects across the UK. For over 85 years our Balfour Beatty Balvac business has delivered innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions to sustainably extend the life of our nation's infrastructure. Our clients include Highways as well as major local authorities across the UK, with services also transferred into rail, marine, coastal, power, industrial and commercial sectors. We are expanding and looking to identify several talented individuals based across the country to join this high-octane energy-driven team.
Interested? Then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn revenues last year and achieved industry-leading customer satisfaction scores along with unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
What you'll be doing
As a Skilled Operative, you will have the following accountabilities:
* Ensure the works are carried out in the most efficient and safe manner
* Demonstrate positive attitude and behaviour towards safety and others
* Report all near misses, hazards or observations via the hotline and to the Supervisor
* Follow company/manufacturer procedures to ensure standards are met
* Notify the Supervisor or Chargehand of any matters that affect the progress of works (including breakdowns & damages, etc.)
* Ensure maintenance/inspection checks are carried out, reports are correctly completed on time and submitted
* Ensure relevant task briefings have been carried out prior to tasks undertaken
* Make sure the quality and quantity of work produced is at required levels
Who we're looking for
You Will Have The Following
* Good communication skills (to all levels including Supervisors)
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Proactively challenge and be challenged where appropriate
* Knowledge of using and clear understanding of work package plans, method statements, procedures, risk assessments and site specific rules (including lift plans)
* HSE CSCS card
* Multi-skilled (for example Traffic Marshall, Manual Handling, etc)
* Qualified Industrial/ Counterbalance and Telehandler operative
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About Us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair, strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structures across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: concrete repair (wet and dry spray), crack injection, leak sealing injection, structural strengthening (including FRP composite materials), corrosion protection and cathodic protection, post-tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, and concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum-assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.
We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We publish a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan with targeted, proactive, measurable steps. We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and AFBE, and we are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we will consider interviewing applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum requirements. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Structure and benefits
Seniority level: Entry level • Employment type: Full-time • Job function: Other • Industries: Construction
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