About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Route Engineer to join our Regional Civil Engineering business unit to work on the Carlisle Northern Development Route highway maintenance contract, based in Dalston, Cumbria.
What you'll be doing
As a Route Engineer, your main responsibilities are as follows:
* Effectively control, update and report on workload progress, giving estimates to complete and highlight potential delivery problems and solutions.
* Take ownership of Development Control applications, inspections, and approvals.
* Take ownership of monitoring permits and procedures.
* Attend Programme and Liaison meetings.
* Take ownership of programming works.
* Liaise with sub-contracts to programme and deliver work activities.
* Assist with Scheme delivery and supervision.
* Consult with regulating bodies.
* Assist with inspections and surveys.
* Assist the Operations team in reviewing, repairing, and monitoring defects.
* Monitoring project performance to ensure timely delivery.
* Compiling and submitting project status reports to clients, management, and other stakeholders.
* To specify and quantify equipment/material to achieve the greatest benefit to the company.
* Working effectively with relevant stakeholders for efficient project implementation.
* Contribute to Tool box talks and Zero Harm events.
* Assist in the implementation of "My Contribution" ideas and Zero Harm interventions.
Who we're looking for
The following qualities and experience are essential:
* Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes.
* Strong work ethic and ability to prioritise tasks.
* Able to work on own initiative.
* Must be a good team player, with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
* Understands the basic Company Protocols.
* Uncompromising approach to the implementation of H&S.
* Understands the relevant Business Management System and implements systems and processes.
* Fosters a culture of Right First Time.
* Understanding of quality and auditing processes.
* Good working knowledge of MS Office programmes.
The following qualities and experience are desirable:
* Experienced in Contract management.
* Experience of asset management.
* Highway Maintenance experience.
* Traffic Management experience.
* New Roads & Streetworks Act experience.
* Proven experience of working to tight deadlines with an ability to prioritise and multi-task.
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.
Balfour Beatty 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.
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.
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Job Reference: BBUK10563
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