Street Lighting Operative
CompanyBalfour Beatty plc
Location
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/3/2026
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Occupation Type
Electricians and electrical fitters
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
About The Role
Job Title: Street Lighting Operative
Location: This is a site-based role covering all of Northamptonshire County.
Company: Balfour Beatty Group
About Us
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.
Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of Living Places you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.
Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
As a Street Lighting Operative you will have the following accountabilities:
Job Title: Street Lighting Operative
Location: This is a site-based role covering all of Northamptonshire County.
Company: Balfour Beatty Group
About Us
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.
Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of Living Places you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.
Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
As a Street Lighting Operative you will have the following accountabilities:
- Installing, repairing and maintaining a wide range of street lighting and illuminated assets, including columns, lanterns, LED lantern replacements, lamps, brackets, beacons, underground SWA cables, illuminated bollards, illuminated signs, feeder pillars and subway lights
- Working predominantly in a team environment, taking responsibility for your own jobs and safety, while occasionally working alone.
- Carrying out full LED lantern replacement programmes to upgrade outdated lighting to modern, energy-efficient units
- Performing ground excavations and proper reinstatement following installation or repair work
Essential Requirements
- A full clean UK driving licence — you'll be travelling to various sites across the county.
- Proven competence in street lighting operations, with hands-on experience in fault-finding, repairs, and routine maintenance of street lighting systems.
- Comfortable using basic IT tools — we'll provide a tablet device for recording site works, job updates, and reporting.
We value candidates who already hold some or all of the following industry-recognised qualifications and certifications. Where gaps exist, full training and support will be provided to help you achieve them:
- HEA Portfolio (demonstrating competence in highway electrical works)
- First Aid certification
- Manual Handling training
- Current ECS test (Electrotechnical Certification Scheme)
- CSCS/NPORS red card (or equivalent plant/equipment operator card)
- NRSWA (New Roads and Street Works Act qualification — essential for safe signing, lighting, and guarding on highways)
- IPAF 1b (plus Harness & Fall Arrest training — for working safely at height using mobile elevating work platforms, common in column access)
- G39 (Working in the Vicinity of DNO Equipment) + 214 Safe
- Isolation procedures
- ESSW (Essential Skills for Safe Working, or equivalent health & safety qualification)
- 302.1 (12D) Traffic Management
- 204.1 Abrasive Wheels (safe use of cutting/grinding equipment)
- Electrical testing qualification or relevant experience (e.g., using testing equipment for fault diagnosis and verification).
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…
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 Associ
ation 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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com