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About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a General Operative to join our Projects team to work across the West Midlands.

Role Purpose:

Ensure all piling operations are carried out safely, efficiently and to a good standard

As a General Operative you will:

• Always follow the Balfour Beatty 4 Golden Rules;
• Ensure the works are carried out in the most efficient and safe manner;
• Demonstrate positive attitude and behaviour towards safety;
• Report all near misses, hazards or observations via the hotline and to the site Supervisor;
• Follow company/manufacturers procedures to ensure standards are met;
• Notify the Site Supervisor of any matters that affect the progress of works (including breakdowns & damages, etc.);
• Ensure daily maintenance checks are carried out, reports are correctly completed on time and submitted to the site Supervisor;
• Operate as Primary or Secondary Signaller when appointed;
• Ensure the site is kept clean and tidy at all times;
• Be willing to listen and learn in all areas of process;
• Always asking questions to understand procedures;
• Ensure relevant task briefings have been carried out prior to tasks undertaken;
• Make sure the quality and quantity of work produced is at required levels;
• Be prepared to work overtime/flexible on breaks as and when the contract requires;
• Have willingness to help others within the team;
• Demonstrate the Balfour Beatty Behaviours (6 E’s);
• Be able to contribute good ideas for business improvement;
• Have willingness to teach others when needed.
• Be pro-active and think ahead on the project by working closely with Chargehands & Supervisors;
• Be able to deliver toolbox talks and getting involved in morning briefings;
• Good understanding and knowledge of different processes/equipment (for example: tremmies, concrete, use of Bentonite, piling platform and deterioration, use of radios, exclusion zones, manipulator and concrete lines);
• Have willingness to teach others when needed;
• Have the ability to lead by example.

Personal Qualities and Experience:

• Good communication skills (to all levels including Supervisors);
• Ability to work as part of a team;
• Proactively challenge and be challenged where appropriate;
• Ensure completion of trainee programme during time in role;
• Slinger/Signaller CPCS (Competent Operator Blue card);
• HSE CSCS card;
• Relevant manufacture/supplier training where required;
• Maintenance training;
• Piling Operative (In addition to Trainee Piling Operative);
• Knowledge of site method statements, procedures, risk assessments and site specific rules (including lift plans);
• Knowledge of piling techniques in rotary discipline;
• Site experience;
• Specific skill/qualification relevant to project role.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering offers a range of services across the construction sector, from piled foundations to ground improvement, testing and analysis. We have established our reputation through our integrated design approach to every project, from the small to the very large.

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

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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