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Shape your career in construction as a Section Foreman and make an impact on landmark works. When it comes to complex operational challenges on large-scale builds, we don’t shy away. We pool our wealth of experience and ambition to take pride in a job well done. Our size means there’s always something new to get stuck into, career opportunities to explore and talented teams to lead.

As a Section Foreman you will:

• Provide input into the production of Work Package Plans and Risk Assessments
• Identify potential hazards and proactively implement actions and controls
• Ensure all plant and small tools are adequately maintained before use
• Provide input into the production and delivery of Task Briefing Sheets and toolbox talks.
• Carry out Safety & Environment Tours
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation
• Be familiar with, and demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Health & Safety and
  Environmental Policies
• Identify future requirements for permit to break ground and permits to lift Engineering team
• Ensure that the workforce / Gangers have sufficient and correct information in terms of
  specification, workmanship and finish
• Ensure that all Non Conformances are reported as required
• Carry out Quality Tool Box Talks
• Complete QA using BIM field 360
• Chair daily short interval control meetings with the site supervisors
• Validate labour and plant records to the project cost control procedure

As a lead figure on some of the largest construction projects in the UK, you’ll need to:

• Stay up to date on changes in relevant legislation such as health and safety
• Bring experience of delivering engaging toolbox talks, allocating resource, monitoring key programme dates and managing the works of direct labour and subcontractors
• Understand contract documents, construction tolerances and test plans
• Think commercially and understand the terms and outputs of subcontractors
• Be willing to work some unsociable hours to keep everything moving forwards.

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 has been operating in Scotland for over a century. Today, we directly employ 2,000 colleagues across Scotland and work with a supply chain that includes a substantial proportion of local businesses. Significant projects in the company’s current portfolio include the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Biomes Initiative and the Institute for Regeneration and Repair and the Edinburgh Futures Institutes projects for the University of Edinburgh. We recently completed Glasgow Queen Street Station Redevelopment for Network Rail, the University of Strathclyde’s Learning and Teaching building, Forth Valley College’s Falkirk Campus and the A9 Dualling Luncarty to Pass of Birnam for Transport Scotland.

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/