About the role
Southampton | Balfour Beatty Living Places
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join us as a Street Works Coordinator and play a key role in keeping Southampton moving—helping to manage and coordinate works across the network safely, efficiently and collaboratively.
This is a brilliant opportunity to be at the heart of network management, working with local authorities, utilities and internal teams to keep traffic flowing and communities connected.
What you'll be doing
You’ll be responsible for coordinating all activities on the highway and ensuring everything runs smoothly, compliantly and on time.
- Managing Street Works permits, traffic management requests and licence applications
- Coordinating activity across the network to minimise disruption and maximise flow
- Monitoring works promoters and identifying / resolving any non-compliance
- Supporting major events across the city from a network management perspective
- Building strong relationships with customers, local authorities and utility providers
- Ensuring all applications meet statutory requirements and deadlines
- Maintaining accurate systems and supporting the National Street Gazetteer (NSG)
- Producing performance insights and supporting KPI delivery
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for someone proactive, organised and confident in managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience within a Network Management or Street Works environment
- Good understanding of NRSWA, Traffic Management Act and relevant legislation
- Experience with Street Works permit schemes
- Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative approach
- Ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise effectively
- Confident communicator, able to engage a range of stakeholders
- IT literate, with experience of systems such as Street Manager, Confirm, NSG or one.network
Desirable:
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: BBUK19244
