Skilled Operative

Job No. BBUK12961

Skilled Operative - Derby

Living Places

Operational Specialists

Derby

Permanent

About the role
- Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Skilled Operative to join our Balvac team working on projects across the UK

For over 85 years our Balfour Beatty Balvac business has been delivering innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions to sustainably extend the life of our nation's infrastructure.

Our clients include Highways as well as some of the major local authorities across the UK. These services have also been successfully transferred into various other key sectors including rail, marine, coastal, power, industrial and commercial sectors.

With an ever-increasing portfolio and a major expansion planned, we are looking to identify several talented individuals (Contracts Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers & Specialist Services Engineers) based across the country to join this high-octane energy driven team.

Interested? Then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn revenues last year and achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores along with unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

What you'll be doing
- As a Skilled Operative, you will have the following accountabilities:

- Ensure the works are carried out in the most efficient and safe manner
- Demonstrate positive attitude and behaviour towards safety and others
- Report all near misses, hazards or observations via the hotline and to the Supervisor
- Follow company/manufacturers procedures to ensure standards are met
- Notify the Supervisor or Chargehand of any matters that affect the progress of works (including breakdowns & damages, etc.)
- Ensure maintenance/inspection checks are carried out, reports are correctly completed on time and submitted
- Ensure relevant task briefings have been carried out prior to tasks undertaken
- Make sure the quality and quantity of work produced is at required levels

Who we're looking for
- You will have the following:

- Good communication skills (to all levels including Supervisors)
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Proactively challenge and be challenged where appropriate
- Knowledge of using and clear understanding of work package plans, method statements, procedures, risk assessments and site specific rules (including lift plans)
- HSE CSCS card
- Multi-skilled (for example Traffic Marshall, Manual Handling, etc)
- Qualified Industrial/ Counterbalance and Telehandler operative

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
- Balvac is a leading specialist contractor in structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment, and part of the Balfour Beatty Group. As a trusted expert Balvac sustainably extends the life of our nation’s infrastructure by delivering innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions to return our customers assets to full capacity and extend their working life.

Operating in the transport, energy, and power sectors with a focus on highway infrastructure, our expert capabilities extend the life of existing civil and building infrastructure across the UK. We implement a 'Detect, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver' approach offering a complete professional service from scheme development and design through to project delivery. These include structural concrete repair, crack injection, leak sealing injection, structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, corrosion protection and cathodic protection, bridge bearing replacement, concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques. We also undertake testing, inspection and structural health monitoring, pile testing and noise, vibration and air quality monitoring.

Our ambition is to create an exciting platform for career development through diverse and challenging civil engineering infrastructure projects, expanding our industry leading specialist expertise, and creating the next generation of experts.