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 the 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 Construction Manager within the Design and Engineering team, based in Coleshill. The sublot is situated between Birmingham and Coventry covering a 6km stretch, running north from the River Blythe to Coleshill, crossing three major highways - the A45, M42, and M6. The assets in this sublot will take 45-50 million hours to construct. Initial work includes the construction of a service road and improvements to the A45. This section will extend to the M42 twin boxes including the construction of three earthworks assets – two embankments and one cutting.
This role will manage a team to coordinate the safe delivery of all operational activities on major projects ensuring Health, Safety, Quality, Environmental, programme and budget requirements are met. Interfacing with the workforce and line managing our General Foremen positions, this role must ensure all operatives are fully inducted/briefed on the Company’s Management systems and are fully competent to deliver in a safe manner.
Experience required:
* Successful experience at General Foreman level or equivalent.
* Understanding of Engineering principles.
* Comprehensive understanding and experience of a wide range of construction techniques and best practices.
* Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management.
* Basic Computer competence (E-mail, MS Word, Excel & intranet).
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 a 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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