Overview
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Location: Various UK Sites
Full-time | Permanent
About The Role
Join Our Team as a Foreman – Balvac. Balvac has delivered innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection, and maintenance solutions to sustainably extend the life of the UK’s infrastructure for over 90 years. Our clients include National Highways and major local authorities across the UK. While our core focus is Transport Infrastructure, we also support the power, energy, industrial, defence, and coastal & marine sectors. With a growing portfolio and major expansion underway, we’re looking for talented individuals to join our high-energy, forward-thinking team.
What you'll be doing
* Day-to-day control, planning, organisation, and supervision of internal resources and subcontractors.
* Ensuring works are constructed in line with contract drawings, specifications, and the Project Management Plan.
* Briefing out construction method statements to ensure efficient and safe delivery.
* Promoting and applying Health, Safety & Environmental procedures and fostering a strong safety culture.
* Supporting and driving behavioural safety on site.
* Monitoring progress, reporting updates, and driving achievement of project goals.
* Proactively identifying and resolving issues on site.
* Maintaining site housekeeping and managing waste segregation.
Who we're looking for
* Experience in delivering structural repair/specialist repair projects.
* Experience working on infrastructure schemes.
* Ability to manage individuals and teams efficiently.
* Ability to manage individual scheme costs.
* Strong understanding and management of Health and Safety, including Behavioural Safety.
* Ability to lead, communicate and influence others to deliver targets.
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.
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
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), 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.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. We are a Disability Confident Employer and 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 information, visit: www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Management and Manufacturing
Industries: Construction
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