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 an Assistant Landscape Manager within the Sustainability Function. This role will be based on site in Birmingham. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham city center.
Role Responsibilities
* Assist the Landscape Lead in their role from design assurance through to construction stages;
* Assist in the management of the landscape construction programme, ensuring planting is ordered within the required lead in times;
* Assist in ordering seed volumes in required lead in times;
* Site supervision – at setting out stage;
* Site supervision – checking landscape works during and at completion stages;
* Assist in the landscape tendering process;
* Assist the landscape lead in their role reviewing design and inspecting on site works;
* Assist in site visits during establishment phase to ensure maintenance is implemented;
* Ordering of replacement planting as required;
* Co-ordinate with Sublot construction teams and planning managers to ensure landscape implementation;
* Assist in the management of the proposed landscape apprentice.
Experience required
* Project management experience of budgets and construction programme.
* Landscape architecture qualification – preferably Chartered member of the Landscape Institute. Minimum landscape architecture degree level.
* Site experience of landscape implementation (3-5 years); work with landscape contractors;
* Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project.
* Good interpersonal and communication skills – ability to consult with others and present.
* Determination to see tasks through to completion, with excellent planning and organisation skills.
* Experience of implementing landscape works from design through to construction and establishment on a large scale.
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
* Flexible working available for some roles
* Travel allowance for eligible candidates
* Family friendly leave policies
* 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
* 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.
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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