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Join our Living Places team as a Street Lighting Operativebased at our BB Northants PFI Depot, East Midlands,where you will have the opportunity to be part of a highly skilled team and the opportunity to learn from some of the best in the industry.
Here at Balfour Beatty, we take pride in the work we do and take pride in giving our employees the opportunity to make a difference in the world and create something they can be proud of.
The opportunity to create is all around you. Whatever your level, whatever your role, whatever the project, you'll be able to take initiative here and get stuck in. A major branch of our business is our Living Places and Highways team.
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
- Set up and removal of site traffic management / pedestrian Management
- Responsible for company Property, Equipment and Vehicles.
Who we're looking for
The following qualities and experience are essential:
- An uncompromising approach to safety 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
- Capable of working at height
- 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 amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.
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/
Job Reference: BBUK06814
