Balfour Beatty plc
Leading Cable Hand
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About The Role
Sellafield, Cumbria | 38 Hours per Week | 4-Day Working Week | NAECI Grade 4
Are you an experienced cable professional looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have the technical expertise, leadership skills and commitment to safety required to deliver complex projects in one of the UK's most demanding environments?
Balfour Beatty is seeking a Leading Cablehand to support the delivery of major works at Sellafield. This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly skilled team, lead cable installation activities and contribute to critical infrastructure projects while developing your career within a world-class organisation.
What you'll be doing
As a Leading Cablehand, you'll play a key role in coordinating and delivering cable installation activities safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards. Working closely with Supervisors, Foremen and Project Teams, you'll ensure work is completed in line with programme requirements, technical specifications and nuclear site regulations.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Leading and coordinating cable installation teams to achieve project targets
- Supporting and mentoring less experienced cable hands
- Overseeing cable pulling, dressing, routing, containment and final fixing activities
- Monitoring productivity and ensuring effective deployment of labour and resources
- Carrying out inspections and quality checks to ensure compliance with project specifications
- Promoting and maintaining a strong safety-first culture across site activities
- Ensuring compliance with Sellafield safety rules, permits, risk assessments and method statements
- Identifying and resolving installation challenges to minimise delays and rework
- Reporting progress, risks and performance against programme milestones
- Liaising with engineers, supervisors and other trades to ensure smooth project delivery
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Who we're looking for
We're looking for individuals who are technically strong, safety focused and capable of leading teams in a highly regulated environment.
Essential Requirements
- ECS / CSCS Leading Cablehand Card
- Proven experience leading cabling teams on major industrial, nuclear or similarly regulated projects
- Strong knowledge of cable installation practices, including segregation requirements, cable fixings and winching operations
- IOSH Working Safely or equivalent
- Manual Handling, Cable Pulling and Working at Height training
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
- Ability to drive quality, productivity and safety standards across site activities
Desirable
- First Aid at Work qualification
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 Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions.
We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life.
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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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