Job Description

Job No. BBUK12818


Contracts Supervisor - Leeds
Living Places
Project Management
Leeds


Permanent


About the role


Balfour Beatty have an amazing opportunity for a Contract Supervisor to join our - Balvac team, working on Balvac projects throughout the UK.

Our Balvac business delivers innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection and maintenance solutions enabling our customers assets to return to full capacity and thus extend their respective working life.

Our clients include National Highways and some major local authorities across the UK in the highway infrastructure sector. We have also successfully transferred our services into various other key sectors including the wider transport sector, energy & power, industrial and commercial.

With an ever-increasing portfolio and a major expansion planned, we are looking to identify several talented individuals (Contracts Engineers, Site Agents, Project Managers & Specialist Services Engineers) based across the country to join this high-octane energy driven team.

As a Contract Supervisor you will be working for Site Agents, Project Managers and Contracts Managers, ensuring the Day to day management and supervision of Balvac and subcontract resources.
What you'll be doing


Some other key areas will include:Ensure that the works are constructed in accordance with the contract drawings,
specification and Project Management Plan

Manage site dimensional control ensuring that contractors have the facilities for
setting out of the works

Produce and review construction methods statements ensuring that the works
are constructed efficiently and safely

Work to programmes, measuring progress and productivity outputs To be familiar with and apply the procedures and processes detailed in the project
Health, Safety and Environmental plans, and to promote a safe working culture

Ensuring the works are undertaken safely and in accordance with Health, Safety & Environmental legislation and the site HS&E plans. Prepare and review risk
assessments

Support and drive behavioural safety on site To be responsible for the monitoring, progress reporting and achieving of goals
for the work under his/her responsibility
Who we're looking for


You will have the following:

A reasonable level of experience in structural repair/specialist repair projects delivery
This could be in ANY of the above areas/sectors described
Able to understand technical proposals and contracts covering these types of projects


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


Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.

Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.

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 the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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/