Apprentice Streetlighting Operative

**About the role**
Are you looking to start your career after your studies? Our Early Careers programme gives you the opportunity to challenge yourself and be part of the solution to make the world work better.

The Early Careers programme we offer has been carefully developed by the business so that you will become the best professional you can be. We want to bring out the best of your abilities whilst giving you a deep insight into the world of Infrastructure Engineering so then you can be the catalyst for change.

You'll learn. You'll gain skills. You'll explore our business and our sectors having real control over where you go and what you experience next. And you'll do it all as part of a busy community of Apprentices, Year in Industry students and Graduates.

Balfour Beatty Living Places offers a comprehensive training programme in Street Lighting Installation and Maintenance with the opportunity of completing industry vocational qualifications.

Balfour Beatty Living Places are working in partnership with local councils as part of the delivery of this project, including the installation and maintenance.

The structured training programme combines attending a local college to complete an advanced apprenticeship in electrical installation and on-site experience.
**What you'll be doing**
- Test and inspect new installations, issue certificates and initial insertion of cut-out fuse
- Install electrical equipment and wire only
- Terminate and joint cables
- Routine general electrical maintenance
- Diagnose fault on equipment and replace faulty components
- Locating faults on underground cables
- Visual inspection: optical, structural and electrical

**Who we're looking for**
- You will have a minimum of 3 GCSE’s 9 - 4 (or equivalent) including Maths and English, coupled with an interest in Street Lighting.
- You will be focused on delivering high quality street lighting works, safely and to budget.
- You'll always behave with integrity and demonstrating professional image
- You will have a strong work ethic and willingness to take responsibility for your academic and vocational development
- Hold a full UK driving licence at the time of joining
- Eligibility to work and live in the UK at the time of joining

**Our recruitment journey**
To ensure you feel prepared and informed at each stage of our recruitment journey, we wanted to share with you our key stages;
**Stage one: getting to know you**

**Stage two: In-person or online interview**

This is the final stage of our recruitment journey and is where we get to meet you in person, either in one of our offices, or online via Teams.

For us, the most exciting part as we love hearing all about you. We also want to ensure you are getting the most out of your recruitment journey, so it's important you are curious and ask us questions too
**Join us**

To hear more about our programme, click here
- At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you._
- As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with 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: EC00343