Highways Technician

**About the role**
Working for local authorities, **Balfour Beatty Living Places provide highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services.**

We improve every day through engaging with our customers, investing in our people and using the latest technology to create positive, more efficient long-term outcomes - ultimately creating communities where people want to live work and play.

Our solutions include consultancy, finance, design and maintenance of the entire streetscape. We’re shaping places, creating economic growth and meeting the needs of an ever-changing society.

**What you'll be doing** Balfour Beatty Living Places** has now created a new and exciting opportunity for a **Highways Technician **to join our **Living Places business Unit to work in Hereford.**

To provide office technical support and some elements of planning and site supervision/clerk of works with both BBLP Operatives and 3rd party contractors which includes:

- To act as the link between designers and operation teams/sub contractors
- To scope plan and programme necessary works associated with Road Lining Works
- To assist with the Delivery Team in delivering and supervising schemes in year as necessary
- To manage works being carried out with BBLP teams or sub contractors.
- To provide ad hoc supervision of some works to ensure they proceed in accordance with the design and risk assessments.
- To ensure that CDM requirement have been met by designers before schemes go to site.
- To prepare H&S plans for the works.
- To prepare programmes for construction by BBLP.
- To prepare outline programmes for agreement with sub contractors.
- To provide customer liaison during on site works.
- To source availability or provide recommendation on the use of sub
- To ensure sites operate in a safe manner and that all Chapter 8 signing & coning is maintained appropriately.
- Provision of support as required for other teams in the Design & Build Group to meet resource needs including site supervision as required.

**Who we're looking for** You will probably have the following: -**
- Good planning and organisational skills.
- Good presentation, influencing and motivation skills.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Desire to develop and is motivated to achieving targets.
- Good team worker and able to forge good working relationships with other teams.
- Flexible attitude and willingness to travel to multiple site locations.
- Ideally educated to HND/HNC level with good knowledge of construction
- Good experience and understanding of working on and off the public highway on construction sites.
- Experience and understanding of construction methods, codes of practice, CDM regulations, and risk.
- PC Literate and knowledge of MS suite i.e. Word, Excel, etc.
- CSCS, SMSTS
- TM1 and TM2 Desirable

**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**
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

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.

Job Reference: BBUK01852