Construction Operative - Warwick - Balfour Beatty Living Places

Working for local authorities, Balfour Beatty Living Places provide highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services.

We improve every day through engaging with our customers, investing in our people and using the latest technology to create positive, more efficient long-term outcomes – ultimately creating communities where people want to live work and play.

Our solutions include consultancy, finance, design and maintenance of the entire streetscape. We’re shaping places, creating economic growth and meeting the needs of an ever-changing society.

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Construction Operative to join our Living Places business unit to work in Warwickshire.

Role Purpose
Required to work across all areas of the HMC16 contract completing specialist operational activities, utilising comprehensive knowledge and experience to ensure that all works are completed to the required Health, Safety and Quality standards.

Responsible for carrying out a broad range of Highway Construction tasks, ranging from pothole and patch repair, footway reconstruction, bollard repair and installation, fencing, strimming, laying drainage and pavements, placing street iron works and excavating holes and trenches - All to a high standard, safely and at a commercial pace.

The following experience is essential:

• Footway Construction
• Carriageway pot hole / patch repairs
• Highway Civils
• Linear Drainage
• Iron works
• Concreting
• Driving
• Gritting roads
• Traffic Management
• Kerbing
• Block Laying
• Slabbing
• Plant awareness
• Manual Handling

The following Qualifications are desirable:

• Class 1 Licence
• Class 2 Licence
• NRSWA
• 12D Traffic Management T1/T2
• First Aid
• Abrasive Wheels
• CSCS Highway Maintenance
• CPCS / NPORS Plant certification, Ride on Roller, Dumper, Telescopic Handler,
• 360 Excavators etc.
• Driver CPC
• Abrasive Wheel
• L2 Winter Maintenance
• L3 Brick Laying
• L2 Construction

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.

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.

Wherever investment in these environments is needed, Living Places 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.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the ‘road’ to deliver the potential of the ‘street’: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering). Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums.co.uk Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life.

Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.