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About The Role
Job Title: Contracts Supervisor
Location: Warrington – (Site Based- UK Wide)
Company: Balvac – Specialist Structural Repair & Maintenance
About Balvac
Balvac has been trusted to deliver innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection, and maintenance solutions that extend the life of the UK’s infrastructure. Operating primarily across highway assets—and also in transport, energy, and power—we specialise in structural concrete repair, corrosion protection, bridge strengthening, bearing replacement, and concrete carriageway rehabilitation. Our integrated “4D” approach—Detect, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver—provides end-to-end services from early diagnostics through to safe delivery on site.
What you'll be doing
The Opportunity
As a Contracts Supervisor, you’ll take day-to-day responsibility for managing Balvac and subcontract resources to deliver works safely, efficiently, and in line with contract specifications.
You’ll ensure robust setting out, method statements, and risk assessments, track programme and productivity, and champion behavioural safety on site.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and supervise internal crews and subcontractors daily; coordinate site activities and resources.
- Ensure works comply with drawings, specifications, and the Project Management Plan; manage dimensional control/setting out.
- Produce/review method statements and risk assessments; uphold Zero Harm and project HS&E plans.
- Monitor programme, progress, and productivity outputs; maintain construction records, O&M manuals, and as-built drawings.
- Proactively anticipate and resolve engineering issues; support Balvac’s customer focus and innovation ethos.
Who we're looking for
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience delivering structural repair/specialist repair projects on infrastructure schemes.
- Strong team leadership and communication skills, with the ability to manage costs, safety, and productivity.
- A results-driven collaborator who values excellence, operational discipline, and adaptability.
Why Join Balvac?
- Work on complex, high-profile infrastructure projects.
- Be part of a specialist engineering team with real technical depth.
- Genuine opportunities for career development and progression.
- The backing, stability, and benefits of Balfour Beatty.
- A collaborative culture that values safety, quality, and engineering excellence.
If you’re ready to lead with impact and deliver excellence on some of the UK’s most interesting infrastructure and structural engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you.
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Professional and Personal Development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development, and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills, or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balvac, please go to www.balvac.co.uk. You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section.
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Why Work for Us
Professional and Personal Development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development, and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills, or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Jobs, please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers. You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section.
About Us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening, and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic, and innovative organization.
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Our core business is the structural repair, strengthening, protection, and refurbishment of existing civil and building structures across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power, including nuclear licensed sites, and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include:
- Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete
- Crack injection
- Leak sealing injection
- Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials
- Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection
- Post tensioning to bridges, tanks, and nuclear reactor vessels
- Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques
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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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