About the role
Job Title: Site Agent – Balvac
Location: (UK‑Wide: Leeds / Derby)
Company: Balvac
Balfour Beatty’s specialist Balvac business is expanding, and we’re looking for an experienced Site Agent to support the delivery of structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment projects across the UK. With a home base in Leeds, Derby or Birmingham, you’ll work nationwide on some of the country’s most critical infrastructure schemes.
About Balvac
Balvac is Balfour Beatty’s specialist structural repair and asset care business, recognised across the UK for delivering innovative solutions that extend the life of vital infrastructure. As a trusted expert, Balvac supports customers in sustainably managing and maintaining existing assets through structural health monitoring, diagnostic testing and tailored repair solutions.
Operating nationally across the transport, energy and power sectors, Balvac delivers services such as structural concrete repair, corrosion protection, bridge strengthening, bearing replacement, slab realignment, and structural monitoring. Using its “Detect, Diagnose, Develop, Deliver” approach, Balvac provides a complete service from condition assessment through to project delivery
What you'll be doing
About the Role
As a Balvac Site Agent, you’ll lead day‑to‑day on‑site operations, managing direct labour and subcontractors to deliver safe, high‑quality and efficient project outcomes. You’ll be responsible for ensuring compliance, driving productivity and maintaining a strong safety culture across a variety of structural repair and infrastructure projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead site teams to deliver multiple projects to programme, budget and specification
- Ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty policies, procedures and the Business Management System
- Oversee site setting‑out and dimensional control
- Develop and review risk assessments, method statements, PMPs, ITPs, Construction Phase Plans
- Produce project programmes and track progress, outputs and productivity
- Drive Zero Harm and behavioural safety initiatives
- Apply Lean construction techniques including daily visual meetings and BIM360Field
- Identify and resolve engineering and construction issues proactively
- Manage construction records, O&M documentation and as‑built information
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
- Experience delivering structural repair / specialist repair projects
- Background in infrastructure or civil engineering works
- Strong leadership, communication and team‑management skills
- Ability to manage scheme budgets and commercial elements
- Robust understanding of Health, Safety & Environmental requirements
- Organised, proactive and committed to operational excellence
Why Join Balvac?
You’ll be part of a nationally recognised specialist team supporting the long‑term resilience of UK infrastructure. Balvac offers a technically rich environment, award‑winning expertise and opportunities to develop your career on diverse and challenging projects
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.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
- 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Regional Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/Scotland - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
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/
Job Reference: BBUK13775
