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About The Role
Balfour Beatty's UKCS Living Places business has an exciting opportunity for a Highway Ganger to join our team in Lincolnshire.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for leading a gang in the delivery of highway maintenance and improvement works across the local road network. You will play a key role in ensuring works are carried out safely, efficiently, to a high standard of quality, and in line with programme and client requirements.
Working within a strong safety culture, you will help deliver essential infrastructure improvements that support local communities while maintaining the highest standards of workmanship and operational excellence.
What you'll be doing
- Leading a highway maintenance gang to deliver works safely, on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.
- Carrying out and overseeing a wide range of highway maintenance activities including kerb laying, footway improvements, asphalt and foam base laying, drainage works, traffic signal chamber and duct installation, vegetation clearance, excavation works and vacuum excavation activities.
- Liaising closely with Supervisors and Agents to ensure site briefings, permits and work activities are properly coordinated.
- Using site drawings, specifications and digital systems to ensure works are completed right first time.
- Monitoring materials, plant and equipment to maximise productivity and efficiency.
- Promoting a strong safety culture by reporting observations, close calls and good practices.
- Supporting emergency response activities, winter maintenance services and out-of-hours operations when required.
- Building positive working relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders while delivering excellent customer service.
- Contributing to the effective management of resources to support successful project delivery.
Who we're looking for
We are looking for a motivated, safety-focused individual with experience in highway maintenance, groundworks or construction. You will enjoy leading teams, take pride in the quality of your work and be committed to delivering excellent results for our clients and communities.
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Essential Requirements
- Full UK driving licence.
- Strong commitment to health and safety.
- High standards of workmanship and attention to detail.
- Honest, reliable and able to act with integrity.
- Flexible approach to working hours, including overtime and shift patterns when required.
Desirable Qualifications & Experience
- Highway maintenance, groundworks or construction experience.
- NRSWA accreditation.
- CSCS Highway Maintenance card.
- EUSR excavation qualifications.
- Confined Space training.
- Class 1 or Class 2 LGV licence.
- Driver CPC.
- Vacuum excavation experience.
- Telehandler training.
- Winter service qualifications.
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.
Why join us?
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…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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