Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Craftsman
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About The Role
Job Title: Senior Craftsman
Location: Birmingham
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Craftsman to join our Construction Services UK team. Working on major infrastructure and construction projects across the UK, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality plumbing and mechanical installation activities while promoting safe working practices, quality workmanship, and operational excellence.
As a key member of the site team, you will provide technical expertise, support project delivery, and help drive a culture of Right First Time, ensuring works are completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out installation, repair, and maintenance of plumbing systems, pipework, and associated equipment.
- Support the planning and delivery of temporary plumbing works solutions.
- Work in accordance with Work Package Plans, Risk Assessments, Task Briefings, and toolbox talks.
- Identify hazards and proactively implement appropriate controls and safe systems of work.
- Promote Balfour Beatty Values and maintain a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
- Ensure all plant, equipment, and small tools are suitable, maintained, and safe for use.
- Monitor workmanship standards and promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
- Assist with quality assurance activities, including BIM Field 360 inspections.
- Support environmental and sustainability objectives across project delivery.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, safety, and project outcomes.
- Ensure non-conformances are reported and addressed in a timely manner.
- Maintain awareness of project milestones, programme requirements, and additional work opportunities.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Fully qualified Plumber, Mechanical Fitter, or equivalent trade qualification.
- Demonstrable experience delivering plumbing installations, repairs, and maintenance activities.
- Current CSCS Card and full UK driving licence.
- Strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation and safe systems of work.
- Ability to take ownership of tasks and work effectively with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach to working.
- Flexible approach to working hours, including nights and weekends where required.
- Experience of temporary plumbing installations.
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Desirable
- Experience delivering works on major construction, civil engineering, or infrastructure projects.
- Proven ability to manage works packages from installation through to handover.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a solution-focused mindset.
- Desire to further develop professionally, including progressing towards Appointed Person (AP) status.
- Experience consistently delivering high-quality workmanship and exceeding customer expectations.
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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