General Operative

**About the role**
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our **UKCS - Balfour Beatty Living Places team** as a **General Operative**, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
**What you'll be doing**

**As a**Street Lighting Operative,** your main responsibilities will be as**
**follows**:

- Maintenance of Lighting Columns, lighting brackets, Lanterns,

bollards and signs.
- The changing of lamps, lanterns, covers, electric cells, fuses,

capacitors, switches.
- Assist Street Lighting Electricians with fault finding and repair
- Assist with excavations for installations of Feeder Pillars,

Lighting columns, Signposts, Bollards, EV Charge points and
speed cameras.
- Management of on-site point of work risk assessments
- Identify and report safety observations
- Responsible for site traffic management / Pedestrian

Management.
- Responsible for company Property, Equipment and Vehicles.
- Emergency call outs make safes.
- Installation, repair and maintenance of street lighting assets,

including columns, lanterns, LED lantern replacements, beacons,
lamps, brackets, underground SWA cables, illuminated bollards,
illuminated signs, feeder pillars and subway lights.
- Predominantly lone working, however there will be occasions

where team working is required.
- Painting of various street furniture.
- Ground excavations and reinstatement for installation works.

Dynamic risk assessments.
- Responsible for company property, equipment and vehicles.
- Stand-by rota for out of hours call-outs and emergencies.

**Who we're looking for** The following qualities and experience are essential**:

- A strong work ethic and desire to complete your tasks right first

time
- Excellent attention to detail & self-motivated.
- Able to demonstrate technical knowledge and analytical skills.
- Must be comfortable working within a team as well as working

alone and to tight deadlines.
- Capable of working at height.
- You will have a good level of written and numerical skills.
- A demonstrable ability to learn new processes quickly.
- IT skills Excel, Word ability to use a Tablet / Apps.
- Full clean UK Driving Licence.

**Desirable Qualifications**:

- ECS Card to relevant level
- CSCS/NPORS card;
- IPAF 1b + Harness and Fall Arrest training;
- G39/1 Working in the vicinity of DNO
- NRSWA operative training;
- 302.1 (12D) Traffic Management;
- Manual Handling training;
- Emergency First Aid (1 Day)training.

**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**

Job Reference: BBUK12584