Summer Placement

4 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Vinci Full time

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team for an exciting 8 week paid Summer Placement stating in July 2025. Opportunities will be based at construction sites and offices in South Staffordshire, Birmingham, Coventry, North and South Warwickshire.

As a Summer placement working on HS2, this is a unique opportunity to support your current studies at University and give you invaluable experience working on a Major Project. BBV intends to attract the best people to join our high performing teams and looking for individuals who want to be part of something extraordinary.

**What you'll be doing**:
As a Summer placement working on HS2, this is a unique opportunity to support your current studies at University and give you invaluable experience working on a Major Project. BBV intends to attract the best people to join our high performing teams and looking for individuals who want to be part of something extraordinary.

**Who we're looking for**:
**About Balfour Beatty VINCI**

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

- 9.3km of viaducts
- 62 overbridges
- 35 cuttings
- 56 culverts
- 62 embankments
- 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
- 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.


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