About the role
Job Title: Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent)
Location: Leeds – (Site Based- UK Wide)
Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac
Shape the solutions that fix, strengthen and protect the UK’s infrastructure
Balvac, part of the Balfour Beatty Group, is a leading specialist in structural repair, strengthening, refurbishment and asset life‑extension. We operate across highways, bridges, marine and other critical infrastructure, combining specialist expertise with the scale and stability of a major infrastructure organisation.
As part of the Balfour Beatty Group, Balvac combines specialist expertise with the strength, scale, and stability of a major infrastructure organisation.
What you'll be doing
The opportunity
As a Contracts Engineer (Sub Agent), you’ll manage the safe and efficient delivery of multiple Balvac schemes, coordinating internal teams and specialist subcontractors to achieve programme, quality and cost outcomes. You’ll report to Balvac Contracts/Project Managers and the Operations Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage day‑to‑day delivery across assigned schemes, leading Balvac resources and subcontractors.
- Ensure all works meet contract drawings, specifications and the Project Management Plan (PMP).
- Oversee site dimensional control and provide facilities for accurate setting out.
- Produce/review method statements; drive safe, efficient construction.
- Compile and control project documentation (e.g. PMP, PVPMP, ITP, Construction Phase Plan).
- Build and manage programmes, tracking progress and productivity.
- Champion Zero Harm, applying HS&E plans and preparing/reviewing risk assessments; lead behavioural safety on site.
- Monitor performance, report progress, and proactively resolve engineering issues.
- Maintain robust construction records, including O&M manuals and as‑built drawings.
Who we're looking for
What you’ll bring
- Degree (or equivalent) in Civil Engineering (preferred).
- Practical experience delivering structural/specialist repair projects on concrete infrastructure.
- Strong technical understanding of structural repairs.
- Proven ability to lead multiple teams and manage multi‑scheme costs.
- Confident communicator who can influence stakeholders to hit targets.
How you work
- Results Driven: energetic, decisive, and solutions‑focused.
- Focus on Excellence: pride in quality and continuous improvement.
- Teamwork & Collaboration: shares knowledge and builds great working relationships.
- Customer Focus: manages stakeholder experience to sustain positive outcomes.
- Operational Excellence: plans and organises to deliver safely and consistently.
- Adaptability: learns quickly and responds to changing site demands.
- Zero Harm: uncompromising safety leadership
Why work for us
Why Join Balvac?
- Work on complex, high-profile infrastructure projects
- Be part of a specialist engineering team with real technical depth
- Genuine opportunities for career development and progression
- The backing, stability and benefits of Balfour Beatty
- A collaborative culture that values safety, quality and engineering excellence
If you’re ready to lead with impact and deliver excellence on some of the UK’s most interesting infrastructure and structural engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you.
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 Balvac please go to www.balvac.co.uk You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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: BBUK19237
