Operations Supervisor

About the role Join the UKCS Balfour Beatty Living Places team as an Operations Supervisor based in the East Sussex Council Highways Contract. In this pivotal role, you'll support the delivery of reactive maintenance works, ensuring our contractors and teams meet the highest standards of health, safety, and quality. You'll work closely with internal teams and external partners, using your expertise to help maintain and improve our highways infrastructure. This is an opportunity to make a real impact within a dynamic operational team, reporting directly to the Operations Manager and contributing to the success of our projects and the satisfaction of our clients. What you'll be doing Your accountabilities will be as follows: Supervising site activities and managing the allocation of people to work. Monitoring works to ensure completion to specification and quality standards. Supporting a culture of Zero Harm by embedding safety best practices and reporting observations. Liaising with Network teams for permitting and with Procurement for materials ordering. Conducting site audits to ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty Safe Systems of Work and processes. Assisting in the supervision of reactive works using both internal and supply chain resources. Ensuring all assigned sites meet governance and compliance requirements, including BMS Group Policy, QM-BIM field 360, UKCS Customer Focus First Strategy, Telematics, and NHSS standards. Who we're looking for We are looking for the following: A proactive team player with experience in highway maintenance, civil construction, and traffic management. Minimum qualifications and skills include: Full driving licence SSSTS NRSWA Supervisor Lantra 12D (M1/M2, M5, M6) CSCS card Experience using mobile devices Excellent communication skills Willingness to learn and develop NVQ Level 3 (desirable) Experience in a similar field or role is essential, particularly in highway maintenance (routine & reactive), construction, and civil engineering contracting. 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? 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 Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers. Diversity and inclusion At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/ #J-18808-Ljbffr