On-Site Materials Coordinator

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On-Site Materials Coordinator
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick

About the role

Become part of the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Materials Coordinator on the Hinkley Point Project and develop with this amazing project.

About Hinkley Point C

The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

This is an on-site role.

Material Coordinators raise all material requests for construction for project build. 

What you'll be doing

• Carry a positive HS&E outlook, while representing and promoting a strong and compliant HS&E culture throughout the whole
  construction life cycle of the project.
• Attend coordination meetings that cover and include procurement/expediting and warehouse inventory for all MEH Alliance Materials.
• Coordination and communication of materials between material package managers, warehouse teams and construction teams.
• Accumulate data from a 16 week lookahead to support thescheduling of deliveries and installation material per the specified material category and / or construction area.
• Aid the and provide data input to provide detailed visual aids and tables to support forecasted material data.
• Assist with cataloguing identification, Issuing of material and data input the asset management system (AS9) (against the 16WLA)
• Collaborating with other departments within the organisation, such as planning, Engineering, Logistics, and the Site Wide Teams, to ensure smooth operations and efficient movement, storage, care, and integration of construction materials.
• Feedback and report to the Materials preparation and Configuration Manager on any potential improvements on process, HS&E and the reporting structure where shortfalls may lie.

Who we're looking for

• Relevant qualifications and experience in a similar role.
• Strong administrative, data input skills are necessary to coordinate material management and strengthen the end-to-end material process flow.
• Able to obtain a security clearance. 

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 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.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.