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Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a General Street Lighting Operative to join our Living Places business unit to work in Boldon

Role Purpose:

• Required to work within the Street Lighting Team on the North East PFI contracts and supporting works carrying out of reactive, emergency and operational activities;
• Utilising knowledge and experience to ensure that contracts are completed on time and to a high standard in accordance with good Health, Safety and Quality standards;
• Required to work on all aspects of street lighting installation and maintenance within the Sunderland, South Tyneside and Third Party Teams alongside existing operatives .

As a General Operative you will:

Compliance:

• Work within a culture of Zero Harm – embedding the 4 Golden Rules within all aspects of service delivery;
• Report all observations – Close Calls and Good Practices;
• Compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, specifically H & S;
• Develop and maintain good working relationships across all teams;

Technical / Operations:

• Ensure Tasks are completed on time and to and to the required standard .
• Work with with ops. to install street lighting columns ,signs and cables.
• Assist with emergency work .
• Utilise the effective use of plant, equipment or machinery;
• Be responsible for your own site safety and compliance .
• Work at height for which training will be given .
• Ability to think or themselves and also work as a team

Service Delivery:

• Carry out all reasonable work instructions;
• Work to all company and safe working procedures .
• Support the emergency service provision – in and out of hours if required .
• Contribute to the overall profitability of the services providing through effective use of resources.

Customer Service:

• Provide customer service in construction;
• Be an ambassador for Balfour Beatty at all times.

Personal Qualities and Experience:

The following qualities are essential:

• Health and Safety first;
• Adaptable to changing situations;
• Team work;
• Reliable;
• Willing to learn;
• Listen to and do what is required;
• Pride in work;
• Honest / Act with integrity;
• Customer facing;
• Positive Attitude;
• Professional Conduct;
• Good Communication skills.

The following experience is essential:

• Working outdoors .
• Manual work .

The following Qualifications are desirable :

• NRSWA;
• First Aid;
• CSCS;
• Manual Handling.
• CPC
• MEWP Trained
• HGV

Day in, day out, our teams deliver projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the street lighting infrastructure on public highways and development sites .

BBLP are part of a world wide company with a large portfolio of contracts covering all aspects of construction work .

BBLP are a safety orientated company with zero harm as our goal .

There is training for all aspects of the competencies required to complete any tasks within the role , creating a prospect of progression within the company .

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential lighting of highways .

Sunderland and South Tyneside Living Places Install and maintain street lighting for both local authorities , A19 Autolink and a section of the A1/M1 near Bramham . We also work on other third party works such as new developments and housing estates

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

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