About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty.
By joining our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Site Supervisor in our Operations Team, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.
Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
Based across the UK on our projects you will work on our Large Infrastructure within our Power Transmission and Distribution Projects.
The location of this role is Rochester
Roles include a generous subsistence package (subject to T&C's), Allowances, Pension, and career progression within the industry.
When it comes to developing our people, our Operational Site Management teams are award winning. Joining the team as a Civils Site Supervisor, you’ll get to:
- Secure a future in an industry that’s enjoying significant investment
- Take pride in adding your talents to our focus on building sustainably Power for the future.
- Benefit from our sheer scale and diversity by progressing quickly and exploring professional passions and established career paths
What you'll be doing
- Supervise site operatives and subcontractors to ensure safe, efficient delivery
- Deliver clear daily briefings, toolbox talks, and task instructions
- Ensure works meet programme, quality, and compliance requirements
- Coordinate labour, plant, and materials to keep works progressing
- Maintain accurate site records, timesheets, and progress updates
- Monitor site activity and escalate issues where required
- Drive Zero Harm, ensuring safe systems of work are implemented and followed
- Review and implement RAMS, permits, and work packs
- Ensure all operatives are competent, inducted, and correctly equipped
- Lead on health, safety, and behavioural standards
- Report and support investigation of incidents and near misses
- Work collaboratively with Engineers, Project Teams, and supply chain
- Identify and resolve site delivery issues in real time
- Monitor progress against programme and support performance on site
- Promote a culture of teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement
Who we're looking for
- Proven experience supervising substation, cabling, or OHL works (ideally up to 400kV)
- Strong track record of maintaining safe systems of work on site
- Experience leading operatives and coordinating day-to-day activities
- Confident delivering briefings and site instructions
- Good understanding of construction sequencing and programme delivery
- Clear communicator with strong relationship-building skills
- Proactive and organised, able to keep works moving under pressure
- CSCS, SSSTS (or equivalent) and Full UK Driving Licence
- Desirable: Commercial awareness and understanding of safety legislation
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?
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
- 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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20155
