Balfour Beatty Vinci has an exciting opportunity for an Lifting Appointed Person to join our team based in Coleshill Coventry

What you’ll be doing

As an Lifting Appointed Person you’ll be working alongside our team helping to deliver the biggest civils infrastructure project in the UK.

Some of the duties you will have include:

Responsible for supervising lifting operations and ensuring the Lift Plan is adhered to.

Taking responsibility for the supervision of the lifting operation in accordance with the approved Lift Plan, from arrival to departure of the lifting equipment and including setting up and undertaking the lifting operation

. · Reviewing the Lift Plan, ensuring it covers the lifting operation from start to finish, and remains relevant to the actual situation on site at the time of the lift.

• Briefing the lifting team on the contents of the Lift Plan and ensuring understanding is tested and recorded (in the form of Lift Plan briefings and toolbox talks.
• Ensuring the lift team have had a full project induction and have been appointed to their role

. · Monitoring the competence, alertness and engagement of the lift team assigned to the lifting operation and stopping the lift if shortcomings are noted.

• Ensuring the lifting operation is included on the Start of Shift briefing, such that interfaces and controls in relation to other site works and hazards are understood by the whole project team.
• Ensuring only lifting equipment and accessories as identified by the AP are used in the lifting operation and only in the configuration specified. Stopping the lift if not.
• Ensuring that any movement limiting device, where used to limit movement, is secured or locked and key removed.
• Ensuring that adequate pre-operational checks, intermediate inspections, maintenance and Thorough Examinations of the equipment / accessories have been carried out.
• Ensuring that sufficient breaks are taken to avoid the onset of fatigue in the lifting team

. · Providing feedback to the AP on any issues encountered during the lifting operation, any improvements that could be made to the lifting operation and any concerns with the lifting operation in general.

• Retaining sufficient records of experience (e.g. logbooks, Lift Plans, RAMS, toolbox talks etc.) such that a CV of experience can be established to assist in future appointments and competence demonstration.

The ideal candidate for the role would have the below:

• Valid and in date CPCS A61 (Blue card) or NPORS N401 Appointed Person for Lifting Operations qualification, this would be supplemented with time served experience in the role.
• A solid and robust understanding of BS7121, LOLER and PUWER.
• Be able to delegate jobs withing the lifting team, communicate the ins and outs of a lift plan to the lifting team and any other parties that maybe involved in the lifting operation i.e. site team, TW team or engineers.
• Demonstrate the ability to time manage and prioritise site operations and individual workloads.

Why join us?

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is responsible for designing and building part of the most exciting and challenging infrastructure project in Europe: HS2. We are building the West Midlands section of HS2's Phase One route, spanning approximately 90km from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

We will be employing thousands of people from the region to design and build the civil infrastructure for HS2 and we are looking for a wide range of skills to join the team and support this unique and ground breaking project.

Diversity and Inclusion: We aim to be a leader in equality, diversity and inclusion by creating a safe inclusive working environment for all - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership. We are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging all staff to engage in a diverse range of year round learning opportunities and provide personal development opportunities. Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture.

Flexible working: Flexible or agile working is encouraged at BBV and we recognise the value and diversity of candidates which this can bring to our business operations. Not every role can provide a variety of working patterns to suit people's personal needs however we are happy to discuss agile working opportunities at BBV with you.

Disability confident: We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is Disability Confident committed and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

About the company

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long established joint venture between two global leaders in the delivery of critical infrastructure. Working together for over 30 years, we have been successful in delivering a number of significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond.

In 2008, we announced our formal alliance with the aim of delivering modern and innovative solutions to the UK's infrastructure needs. Since then, our collaboration has gone from strength to strength. We've successfully bid and delivered many key projects for Crossrail and Highways England Smart Motorways Programme.