Balfour Beatty Vinci has an exciting opportunity for a SCL Section Engineer to join our our Cross passages team on the Long Itchington Wood tunnelling team. Role Purpose: To provide management and control of a section of works and team comprising Site Engineers management of sub contractors focusing on SCL and Concrete activities for the construction of Tunnels cross passages.

What you'll be doing:

• Liaise with designer to resolve technical issues
• Understands cost and value
• Drafts correspondence to sub-contractors, suppliers and Client
• Capable of taking ownership of tasks and communicating outcomes with clarity, including managing others in this regard
• Able to work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility
• Excellent team player, able to work competently and independently without continuous supervision

Who we're looking for:

• Civil Engineering experience in SCL and Tunnels
• Holds a valid CSCS
• Has a UK driving licence
• Degree in Civil Engineering or similar

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

Section Engineer (Earthworks)

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway.. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

This role will be based on-site in in Water Orton/Coleshill. Delta Junction will cover a 14 KM stretch within the Water Orton/Coleshill area. The sublot will be responsible for major structures including bridges, viaducts & embankments.

This is a great environment to grow due to the complexity of the work involved.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

What you'll be doing

• Preparing and raising Temporary Works Briefs, following up to ensure timely implementation

• Completing Accident Book and associated reports as required, undertaking incident investigations to required standard when needed

• Undertaking and mentoring junior staff in safety audits

• Carrying out complex setting out and mentoring and coaching junior engineers in the use of setting out techniques

• Producing Activity Control Plans / Inspection and Test Plans and obtaining approval

• Identifying, raising and actioning Non-Conformance Reports and Technical Queries with possible solutions.

• Communicating weekly programme targets to the workforce and liaising with subcontractors to ensure works undertaken in line with the weekly programme

• Collating Weekly Measure information and monitoring wastage against budget allowances / KPI™s

• Identifying items of additional work and raising the necessary notifications

• Programming is beyond the week's work and up to 5 ahead.

Experienced required

• Degree level qualification in a Civil Engineering allied subject or HND in Civil Engineering is desirable

• Previous experience working as a Section Engineer on a large-scale civils/infrastructure project, for a main contractor or subcontractor

• Good knowledge and experience on Major Projects

Benefits of working with us

•Car/ car allowance 

 •Free parking

•Travel allowance for eligible candidates

•Family friendly leave policies

•Excellent pension contributions

•Healthcare

•Health risk assessments

•Access to employee assistance programmes

•Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Working together for over 30 years, Balfour Beatty VINCI have been successful in delivering several significant infrastructures; creating unrivalled expertise and capability across rail, highways and aviation sectors in the UK and beyond.

Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

•42 viaducts totalling over 11km

•66 overbridges

•More than 35 cuttings reaching over 30km

•56 culverts

•66 embankments reaching over 33km

•Building four motorway crossings requiring box structures

•Six interfaces with the existing rail requiring both dive-under and overbridge structures

Diversity and Inclusion: Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.