Balfour Beatty plc
General Foreman
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About The Role
Job Title: General Foreperson
Location: Peterhead
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Senior General Foreman to lead construction delivery activities across a defined section of works. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently and in line with programme, quality and commercial requirements.
As a senior member of the site management team, you will lead Foremen, Supervisors, Gangers and delivery teams, coordinating resources, managing subcontractors and driving productivity across multiple work fronts. This is an excellent opportunity for a proven construction leader to play a key role in delivering major infrastructure and construction projects.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead construction delivery activities to achieve programme, productivity and quality targets.
- Coordinate multiple work fronts, subcontractors and site resources to ensure efficient delivery.
- Lead and promote a strong health, safety and environmental culture, maintaining a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
- Carry out Safety & Environment Tours and contribute to accident and incident investigations.
- Ensure safe systems of work are implemented, understood and consistently followed.
- Monitor project progress and implement recovery actions where required.
- Lead short interval planning processes and performance reviews.
- Drive achievement of project KPIs and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Implement quality management systems and ensure compliance with Inspection and Test Plans.
- Promote a Right First Time culture across all site activities.
- Support commercial performance through accurate reporting, resource management and productivity monitoring.
- Manage labour, plant and material resources to maximise efficiency and minimise waste.
- Lead, motivate and develop Foremen, Supervisors and site delivery teams.
- Coach and mentor emerging construction leaders and support workforce development.
Act as the senior operational lead for assigned works and deputise for the Works Manager where
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Proven experience leading site delivery teams on major infrastructure or construction projects.
- Previous experience in a Senior General Foreman, General Foreman or similar leadership role.
- Strong knowledge of construction delivery, resource planning and site operations.
- Excellent understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and safe systems of work.
- Experience carrying out Safety & Environment Tours and leading workforce briefings.
- Experience managing subcontractors and coordinating multiple work fronts.
- Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to motivate teams and drive high performance.
- Experience implementing quality processes, Inspection and Test Plans and Right First Time principles.
- Strong commercial awareness, including labour, plant and productivity management.
- Proficient IT skills.
- CSCS Card.
- SSSTS or SMSTS qualification.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Flexible approach to working hours, including nights and weekends where required.
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Desirable
- Experience delivering high-profile road, highways or major infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of NEC contracts and other standard forms of contract.
- Experience leading large multidisciplinary delivery teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and implement practical solutions.
- Experience taking ownership of works from initial delivery through to successful handover.
- Experience mentoring and developing future construction leaders.
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.
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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
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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