Utility Asset Protection Lead

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty has an exciting new opportunity for a **Utilities Asset Protection Lead**to join the team in Power T&D.

The Utilities Asset Protection Lead will develop and oversee a team and strategy to ensure a coordinated and safe approach to working around all utilities on the scheme, both existing and proposed.
**What you'll be doing**
- Ensure Utility Asset Protection Team carry out regular on-site utilities’ safety inspections, implement recommended courses of action as identified and support any incident investigations.
- Ensure that all protection measures are adhered to, there is a good understanding of those across all internal stakeholders, including process and plant protection, and any new or changed policies are implemented.
- Coordinate with relevant delivery PMs all aspects of any site investigation required for Utilities designs & delivery including trial holes and ensure correct standard and format and records are produced and provided in agreed timescales.
- Setting and managing the budget for the Utilities Asset Protection Team on LTC.
- Ensuring that the scope of works to be undertaken in delivering schemes is clear and understood and that due consideration is given to Safety by Design, including identification, documentation and the mitigation, as far as reasonably practical, of risk in both the construction and operation and maintenance phases
- Collaborate within the Utility Asset Protection Team with any activities related to utilities detection & surveys, including route proofing, training, safe excavations and usage of GPR & Cat &Genny.
- Build and develop the Utility Asset Protection Team to deliver all aspects of the project

requirements. identify training requirements, review the performance of the workforce and ensure delivery of briefings.
- Support the delivery of diversions, protections, removals and assurances, in coordination with the Utilities PM and Utilities Coordinators and complying with their minimum requirements as instructed by BB.
- Ensuring all work is undertaken by the Utility Asset Protection Team is in line with Client’s, Utility companies and Balfour Beatty Processes, Procedures/Specifications

**Who we're looking for**
- Experience in working with and adhering to SU protection protocols
- Experience of managing Utility asset diversion and survey works.
- Experience of resource planning, management and mobilisation
- Experience of client and stakeholder management
- Firm understanding of and belief to drive health & safety principles in line with Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm philosophy

**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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK12544