About the role
Job Title: Acoustics Engineer (Construction) - BALVAC
Location: Derby (UK Wide)
Company: Balfour Beatty - BALVAC
About the Role:
We are looking for a talented Acoustics Engineer with previous experience in Construction to join our Balvac Testing & Analysis team, supporting major construction projects across the UK.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality monitoring, analysis, and reporting of noise, vibration, and air quality data. You’ll play a key part in ensuring projects meet environmental and regulatory requirements, while providing innovative and practical solutions to our clients.
About BALVAC:
Balvac (part of Balfour Beatty) is a specialist engineering business focused on maintaining and extending the life of infrastructure across the UK. They deliver services such as structural repair, strengthening, and refurbishment of assets like bridges, highways, and buildings.
The business also provides testing and analysis services — including noise and vibration monitoring, structural health monitoring, and environmental assessments — helping clients understand the condition of assets and ensure they remain safe, compliant, and operational.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities:
As a Acoustics Engineer, you will:
- Install and maintain monitoring systems for noise, vibration, air quality, and structural health
- Carry out data analysis, including statistical interpretation of environmental monitoring data
- Prepare detailed technical and factual reports
- Diagnose and resolve on-site monitoring and equipment issues
- Maintain accurate and robust documentation of all technical information
- Support the development of monitoring solutions in line with relevant standards
- Contribute to planning and managing cost and time estimates for project activities
- Translate client needs into practical, effective solutions
- Communicate effectively with clients and internal stakeholders
- Support other departments and collaborate across teams when required
- Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality procedures
Who we're looking for
Essential:
- Qualification in acoustics or a related subject
- Full UK driving licence
- Knowledge of noise, vibration, and environmental monitoring
- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Practical problem-solving skills and ability to maintain technical equipment
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Desirable:
- IOA Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control
- Membership of the Institute of Acoustics
- Experience in construction or environmental monitoring
- Competency in noise modelling software (e.g. CadnaA)
- Understanding of air quality monitoring
- Knowledge of relevant standards such as BS 5228
- CSCS card
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
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.
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
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.
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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Job Reference: BBUK19699
