About The Role
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We're Hiring: Site Supervisor - Cabling
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Location: Ipswich, Suffolk
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Team: Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D)
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Project: BTNO
Join Balfour Beatty’s leading Power T&D team as a
Site Supervisor - Cabling, helping us meet growing demands on the
BTNO project in Ipswich. We're looking for a hands-on leader who ensures operational excellence and safety in all aspects of cabling activities.
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Your Role
Responsibilities
As Site Supervisor, you will play a key role in supporting safe, efficient, and timely delivery of cabling works on site. You will be responsible for:
- Ensuring operatives are fully trained and competent to carry out tasks safely and efficiently
- Managing the use of appropriate plant, equipment, and materials
- Partnering with Site Engineers and Site Manager to deliver the project to programme
- Identifying and resolving delivery challenges to maintain momentum
- Maintaining a strong focus on health, safety, and quality standards
What you'll be doing
- Assist the Engineer in carrying out weekly inspections of all plant, lifting equipment and recording on the appropriate forms.
- Ensure Permit to Work near Existing Services documentation is clearly and correctly carried out for all ground breaking activities related to construction works.
- Ensure the Engineer has all necessary information to arrange on site security as required.
- Ensure site records are handed over to the Engineer for final records to be produced in a timely manner
- Ensure Balfour Beatty’s Code of Conduct is thoroughly understood, adhered to and promoted across the business to ensure safe, compliant and consistent working practices
- The Supervisor must establish morning and evening Meeting Points for all operatives to meet and be briefed in safety matters, toolbox talks, scope of work activities, register attendance/absence and to ensure all operatives have left the site at the end of the day.
- Any other duties deemed necessary by the Site Delivery or Engineer to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the project.
- Liaise with the Project Manager and/or Site Engineer to ensure a timely requisition for sufficient plant and equipment is made, giving adequate notice to Resources.
- Ensure all site personnel have the correct authorisations to operate plant or receive permits.
- Ensure that all externally sourced services (Trak way, footbridges etc) are in place prior to site activities starting.
- Be responsible for the operatives time sheets being filled in correctly, showing the daily progress, operatives names, rates, works numbers, hours worked, plant and vehicles (hired and BB owned) utilised and work carried out.
- Ensure operative holiday forms are correctly filled in and submitted in a timely manner to Engineers.
- Show clear and visible leadership and display the right leadership behaviours
- Develop and support the operational teams to be successful by talking positively, listening actively and encouraging constantly
- Carry out MSR (Management Safety Representative) checks of working practices at site in conjunction with the Clients nominated MSR.
- Communicate to the Engineer where problems are likely to be encountered throughout the project.
- To operate in an open and even handed manner with all personnel across the business. Treat all who we interact with, with courtesy and respect, treating everyone equally and embracing differences. Encourage everyone to achieve maximum potential.
- Behaving with integrity and demonstrating professional image at all times. To always do what is right.
- To take personal responsibility & accountability for actions, constantly striving to improve and exceed expectations ensuring safety and quality are never compromised.
- Pro-actively manage the customer relationship during tender and delivery, including change and decision making to effectively manage expectations
- To proactively contribute to teamwork and cross-functional working. To listen to each other and share knowledge enabling us to willingly combine expertise across the business and with our clients and supply chain.
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Previous experience of the construction and delivery of Overhead Line, Cabling or Substation schemes up to 400kV
- Experience in implementing safe systems of work
- Effective Communication Skills
- Excellent relationship management skills
- Ability to lead, develop and motivate a team for success
- Holds a current driving license
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Commercial awareness with knowledge of both budgetary and financial control
- Good understanding of current safety legislation
The Candidate Is Likely To Have The Following
- Holds CSCS and SSSTS or Equivalent
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?
Benefits
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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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
We are 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:
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