Balfour Beatty plc
Foreperson
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About The Role
Job Title: Foreperson
Location: Peterhead
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Foreperson to join our construction delivery team. Reporting to site management, you will be responsible for supervising and coordinating construction activities within your assigned work area, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, on programme and to the required quality standards.
You will lead operatives, gangers and subcontractors on site while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, productivity and continuous improvement. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated construction professional to play a key role in delivering complex and high-profile infrastructure projects.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise and coordinate site operatives, gangers and subcontractors within assigned work areas.
- Ensure all activities are carried out safely and in line with Balfour Beatty's Zero Harm culture.
- Support the preparation and implementation of Work Package Plans, Risk Assessments and Task Briefings.
- Deliver regular toolbox talks and safety briefings to the workforce.
- Monitor workmanship, ensuring works are completed to specification and quality requirements.
- Promote a Right First Time culture across direct labour and subcontractors.
- Monitor progress against programme requirements and communicate targets effectively to site teams.
- Ensure labour, plant and materials are effectively utilised to maximise productivity and minimise waste.
- Complete quality assurance records using approved digital systems.
- Carry out Safety & Environment Tours and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support the development of team members through coaching and on-the-job guidance.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Proven experience in a Foreperson role within civil engineering, infrastructure or construction environments.
- Experience managing direct labour, subcontractors and site operations.
- Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental requirements within construction.
- Ability to communicate safe systems of work clearly and effectively.
- Experience planning and allocating labour, plant and material resources.
- Good understanding of construction specifications, quality requirements and inspection processes.
- Experience delivering toolbox talks and workforce briefings.
- CSCS Card.
- SSSTS or SMSTS qualification.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Strong communication, organisational and leadership skills.
- Flexible approach to working hours, including nights and weekends where required.
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Desirable
- Experience delivering major infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of earthworks, deep drainage and reinforced concrete construction.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to assess risks and identify practical solutions.
- Experience working in fast-paced project environments with challenging programme deadlines.
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.
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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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