Highways Safety Inspector & Soft Estates Supervisor - M25

Balfour Beatty; Sevenoaks; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty seeks a Highways Safety Inspector to oversee safety, lead teams in maintenance work on the M25 network, and ensure high standards are met in service delivery. You will promote a safety-first culture and manage operations efficiently while coordinating resources. Join a company dedicated to infrastructure development and community support, with a commitment to your professional growth.

Benefits

25 days paid annual leave

Smart working with flexibility

Family-friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience in highway maintenance operations or similar.
• Driving performance and productivity in team leadership.
• UK Driver's License is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Highways Safety Inspectors ensuring safety and efficiency.
• Supervise Soft Estates maintenance activities including vegetation clearance.
• Support the development and implementation of RAMS and procedures.

Skills

Team leadership

Strong communication skills

Customer-focused mindset

Education

CSCS qualification

SMSTS/SSSTS

Job description

About the role

As a Highways Safety Inspector (HSI) and Soft Estates Supervisor, you'll support the Highways Safety Inspector Team and the safe delivery of Soft Estates activities across then M25 network. Your leadership will ensure planned and reactive operations run smoothly, challenges are resolved, and targets are consistently met.

Leading a team of Highways Safety Inspectors and internal/external Soft Estate operational teams you'll promote a safety-first culture where everyone is committed to doing their work in the right way. You'll ensure teams are appropriately briefed, working efficiently, and have the right resources to succeed.

You'll also support the delivery of various inspection regimes, ensuring high
standards of work are maintained across all activities, and you'll contribute to
rectifying High Priority Defects and customer complaints.

Your effective leadership and focus on continuous improvement will support the long-term success of the M25 network, ensuring it remains safe, resilient and in top condition.

What you'll be doing

• Ensure sufficient resources are in place to deliver all works activities.
• Support the development and implementation of RAMS and procedures.
• Prepare and deliver daily work briefings to operatives outlining methodology, hazards, risks, and control measures.
• Deliver detailed debriefs at the end of each shift to identify issues and incorporate lessons learned into future activities.
• Supervise the Soft estates maintenance - grass cutting, heavy vegetation clearance, arboriculture works, ditch clearance, weed spraying and other associated grounds maintenance tasks.
• Supervise the Highway Safety Inspectors in carrying out daily driven inspections of the M25 DBFO network to identify defects which pose a risk to road users.
• Ensuring that the contract obligations are met and recorded accurately.
• Be responsible for all day-to-day management of the team, their roles and associated elements.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of yourself and your reports.
• People management to include annual leave, performance, conduct in line with relevant policies and absence.
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required.
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
• Participate in Winter Service rota as required.
• Drive Zero Harm objectives by raising risk awareness, mitigating hazards, and fostering a proactive safety culture across the team.
• Lead by example to ensure all activities meet safety standards and comply with systems, processes, and procedures.
• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network, reporting these accordingly
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK's Sustainability activities.

Who we're looking for

• Appropriate CSCS qualification
• SMSTS/SSSTS
• Experience in the delivery of a highway's maintenance operations or similar transferable experience.
• Team leadership and management experience driving performance and productivity.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong customer focused mindset.
• UK Driver's License.

Working Arrangements
Expected to work Mon-Fri, days
May be expected to works nights occasionally, where the relevant uplifts will apply.
Day shifts are 07:00 to 16:00, night shifts are 20:30 to 05:30 with a 45-minute break

Reasonable level of travel around M25 network. Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area. Expected to participate in out of hours call out rotas e.g. Winter Maintenance.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]