About the role
Are you an experienced operational leader with a passion for delivering vital infrastructure projects safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards? Balfour Beatty is looking for an exceptional Agent to lead a multi-disciplinary team across key highways maintenance activities, including structural patching, hand patching, surface treatments, and road marking works.
This is your opportunity to play a pivotal role in keeping communities connected while leading high-performing teams on a major infrastructure contract.
What you'll be doing
As Agent, you'll be the driving force behind successful project delivery. Acting as the key link between planning, permitting, engineering, commercial and operational teams, you'll ensure works are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
You'll:
- Lead and inspire a team of supervisors and operational staff
- Drive a strong safety culture with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm
- Manage programmes, resources, traffic management, permits and road space requirements
- Coordinate multiple workstreams to ensure seamless delivery across the network
- Monitor productivity, quality and commercial performance against key KPIs
- Work closely with local authorities, utilities, clients and stakeholders to keep projects moving
- Support innovation, efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives
- Ensure all works are fully evidenced, compliant and successfully handed over
Who we're looking for
We're seeking a confident and proactive leader who thrives in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Significant experience managing multi-disciplinary teams on highways, civil engineering or infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of pavement construction, surfacing, maintenance and utility interfaces
- Experience managing programmes, resources and subcontractors
- Proven ability to deliver projects safely, on budget and to programme
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Strong commercial awareness and reporting capability
- SMSTS qualified
- CSCS Card holder
- Full UK Driving Licence
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, 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.
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: BBUK19995
