About The Role
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They're an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a
Leading Cable Hand for Hinkley Point C
and you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
What you'll be doing
* Ensure that packages are delivered to programme, budget, safety and quality expectations/standards.
* Ensure packages comply with good design practice and relevant technical group standards.
* Ensure that the package is executed with minimum rework.
* Plan, lead, and direct multiple cable teams to achieve installation targets.
* Allocate tasks, monitor productivity, and ensure correct resource deployment.
* Support training and mentoring of less experienced cable hands.
* Ensure all aspects of LV, MV, and HV cable installation, containment, routing, and final fixing are to specifications
* Act as the point of contact between Supervisors / Cable Chargehand and the workforce.
* Conduct inspections and quality checks to verify installation meets acceptance criteria.
* Provide hands-on technical guidance where required to resolve issues.
* Ensure compliance with Sellafield nuclear safety rules, permits to work, method statements, and risk assessments.
* Oversee the installation, pulling, dressing and final fixing of cables.
* Stop work and escalate immediately if unsafe practices or conditions are identified.
* Liaise with engineers, supervisors, cable chargehand and other trades to coordinate activities.
* Assist with material requisitioning, logistics, and ensuring the correct equipment and materials are available as required
* Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and contribute toward observation and other KPIs
* Health, Safety, Environment & Quality (HSEQ)
* Lead by example in maintaining a strong safety-first culture.
* Ensure that the project team are notified of all potential opportunities and risks
* Proactively identify and resolve installation issues promptly to minimise delays.
* Support in scheduling obligations our required work durations & sequences
* Record and report progress (Daily / Weekly)
* Track progress against installation schedules and report on performance, risks, and delays.
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualifications Or Their Equivalent Are Essential
* ECS / CSCS Card – Leading Cable Hand
* IOSH Working Safely or equivalent (minimum requirement)
* SSSTS or equivalent supervisory safety training (preferred).
* Manual Handling, Cable Pulling, and Working at Height competency training.
* First Aid at Work (desirable).
* Proven experience of leading cabling teams and overseeing cable installation in the nuclear sector
* Strong technical knowledge in all aspects of cabling including, segregation requirements, cable fixing specifications and winching operations
* Ambitious and keen to progress through ECS / JIB Cable grading system
* Can obtain the required security clearances
* High levels of integrity
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?
Benefits
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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.