Balfour Beatty plc
Equipment Technician
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About The Role
Job Title: Equipment Technician
Location: Derby
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking an Equipment Technician to join our Asset & Technology Solutions team in Derby. This is a hands-on role supporting the efficient processing, maintenance, storage, and distribution of specialist plant and equipment used across our projects.
Working as part of a flexible team, you will help ensure equipment is inspected, tested, maintained, and dispatched to the highest standards, while providing excellent customer service and maintaining accurate stock and administration records.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day operation of the department and work closely with Team Leaders.
- Process equipment bookings, stock movements, and requisitions accurately and efficiently.
- Inspect, test, calibrate, and maintain equipment to required standards.
- Pick, pack, load, and unload equipment for transportation to and from sites.
- Ensure equipment is stored, identified, and tracked correctly.
- Complete all paperwork and system updates accurately and within required timescales.
- Support annual stock takes and inventory control activities.
- Maintain high standards of housekeeping across stores and work areas.
- Comply with all health, safety, and environmental requirements, including relevant equipment regulations.
- Provide support across Goods In, Goods Out, Maintenance, and Administration functions as required.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Experience working within a stores, warehouse, or equipment environment.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
- Good awareness of workplace health and safety requirements.
- Flexible approach to working hours and activities.
- Excellent attention to detail and time management skills.
Desirable
- Experience inspecting, servicing, or maintaining specialist equipment.
- Knowledge of lifting equipment and associated regulations.
- Good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Office applications.
- Valid forklift and/or telehandler certification.
- Full UK driving license.
- LEEA qualifications or equivalent industry knowledge.
- Experience working with customers and equipment maintenance records.
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more…
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.
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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
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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