Job Description

Foreperson - Earthworks

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

Foreperson

within the

Earthworks Team

.


This role will be based on site in Based 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.


As a Foreman you will be familiar with, and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Health & Safety and Environmental Policies Implement the relevant requirements of the SMS within their area of responsibility. Ensure that their staff receive or have access to copies of the Environmental Policy and are kept informed of environmental developments and issues Ensure that the Environmental Policy and appropriate parts of Environmental Procedures are effectively communicated to the workforce, particularly to those engaged on activities that have been identified as likely to have a significant environmental impact.

Experienced required

Trade background Structures experience within a large project Relevant CSCS Card Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management Comprehensive understanding and experience of a wide range of construction techniques and best practices.

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.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.



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Job Overview

Internal reference

S0471

Job status

Full time

Closing date

30/08/2025

Location

Birmingham

Hours per week

40