Job Description

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 General Foreperson within the Earthworks team. We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a General Foreperson within the Operational Specialists team. This role will be based on site in Warwickshire. Building a 12.5km stretch covering areas in Leamington Spa, Coventry, and Solihull. The sublot is responsible for the creation of viaducts, over bridges and, under bridges as well as a retaining structure at Stoneleigh Park Business Park. Sublot 2A is the southern most section of mainline. The sublot extends north from Southam through Warwickshire up towards Kenilworth.

Role Purpose:

To provide guidance and control of a team comprising, Section Foreperson, Junior Foreperson and Gangers. Monitoring and management of budget for MSM direct works. Contribution to change control and assistance with the production of contract mechanisms for cost recovery. Interfaces with other Foreperson, Agents and Team Leaders, together with Engineering Staff. Manages a team of Supervisory Staff. Periodic involvement in project steering groups and cross-discipline action groups.

Experience required:

Experienced GF (General Foreperson), with clear evidence of working on large Civils Infrastructure, and specifically experience in Earthworks. Able to clearly communicate the requirements of a safe system of work to ensure that these are followed accurately. Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes. Strong work ethic with flexibility to work unsociable hours/nights. Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card. Solution orientated individual, with strong work ethic and flexibility to work nights/weekends as required by the programme.

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

CON-031

Job status

Full time

Closing date

07/07/2025

Location

Coventry

Hours per week

40

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