AddressSite Engineer – Precast Segmental Viaducts ‘PSV’
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 as a Site Engineer within the Precast Segmental Viaducts ‘PSV’ Team
This role will be based on site in Water Orton, The project’s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands, this sublot includes the Delta Junction – a triangular section of the high-speed railway made up of nine precast segmental viaducts, embankments, and other bridging structures, with around 10km of track crossing a network of motorways, roads and rivers.
Precast Segmental Viaduct is a unique method never used in the UK and involves highly complex construction sequences with the use of bespoke plant design to erect precast viaducts.
The candidate will be part of the “compliance team”, in charge of ensuring the safe use of the machine on site and the strict compliance by the delivery team to the erection sequence and temporary works design.
The candidate will provide control of a multi-disciplinary team comprising, General Foremen, Lifting Operators including monitoring and reporting of progress, in close relation with Production staff
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- At least 2 years of experience as a Site Engineer on Civil Engineering major construction projects.
- Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately. Suggests and implements improvements to systems.
- Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes with clarity, including managing others in this regard.
- Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights.
- Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card. SSSTS or SMSTS qualified.
- Excellent team player and team leader, able to work competently and autonomously without supervision. Reports back as necessary to update Line Management
- Strong communication skills with track record of solution orientated approach to issue resolution.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us
- Car/ car allowance
- Flexible working available for some roles
- Free parking
- Travel allowance for eligible candidates
- Family friendly leave policies
- Excellent pension contributions
- Healthcare
- Health risk assessments
- Access to employee assistance programmes
- Access to annual flu vaccinations
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: Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
