Highways Inspector

Do you want to work for a company that will support you to grow and progress in your career? Where you feel like you belong? This might be the opportunity you have been looking for.

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Highways Inspector to join our talented team in Derby to work on the A50 DBFO Maintenance contract. The successful candidate will undertake various network inspections, supervise maintenance and subcontractor works. You will also be part of the on-call duty officer rota for incidents on the A50.

• Carry out network inspections to identify defects and create work orders.
• Carry out site audits, field and network safety inspections.
• Provide routine and specialist surveys, including night lighting patrols.
• Supervise works undertaken by the workforce and subcontractors.
• Provide assistance with the production of road traffic orders.
• Be part of the rota for an out of hours duty officer for winter maintenance and emergency response.
• Maintain road space requirements and Network Occupancy requirements.
• Manage abnormal loads.
• Deputise for the Route Manager when required.
• Assist with the production of a carbon calculator and environmental KPIs.

If you are willing to learn, have a strong work ethic, and enjoy working within a team, we are looking for someone like you!! You don't have to come from the construction industry, we are willing to provide training for the right candidate.

• Good communication skills
• Full driving licence (essential)
• Awareness of highway contracts & works (desirable)
• CSCS, CITB (desirable)
• Willing to work unsociable hours when required.

Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level. Some of our key benefits are:

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 37.5 hours per week
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Pension Scheme
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Discretionary annual salary reviews
• Role specific training: Winter Maintenance Decision Maker & Road Space Bookings

Our Highways Business Unit maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We also provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK.

We create safe, flexible, and dynamic public spaces. We are right at the heart of a vital place-shaping agenda that brings together local authorities, local communities, central government, and the private sector.
The essential work is to keep daily life moving!

The Balfour Beatty DBFO projects are three highway maintenance projects based at Leeds, Derby and Exeter covering the following routes M1 A1 A50 A30/35

We deliver routine cyclic and winter maintenance, keeping our roads safe and running and deliver over a hundred renewal and repair schemes per year.

Diversity and Inclusion: 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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/