Junior Surveyor

HS2 Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Assistant Surveyor and contribute to HS2, the largest construction project in Britain. Based in Birmingham, you'll assist in crucial surveying tasks, ensuring accurate measurements and effective project timelines. Exciting benefits and a diverse workplace await you!

Benefits

Car/car allowance

Flexible working available

Travel allowance for eligible candidates

Family friendly leave policies

Health risk assessments

Access to employee assistance programmes

Access to annual flu vaccinations

Qualifications

• Assist in field surveys by taking precise measurements and recording data.
• Perform calibrations on surveying equipment.
• Proactive in completing tasks efficiently and maintaining punctuality.

Responsibilities

• Assist surveyors in carrying out field surveys and recording data.
• Maintain and secure survey equipment and vehicles.
• Assist with manual tasks including installation of survey assets.

Skills

Measurement

Attention to Detail

Teamwork

Job description

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.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Assistant Surveyor within the Curzon Team.

Our prominent Birmingham city centre site, Sublot 4, cover a 4.5km stretch, bringing HS2 trains into the new Curzon Street station. The site is responsible for three sections of HS2; Curzon Street Station, the Saltley area and Washwood Heath. The work involves the construction of viaducts, underbridges, overbridges, river diversions and retaining structures.

Experience needed

• Assist surveyors in carrying out field surveys by taking precise measurements and accurately recording the collected data.
• Maintain, clean, and secure survey equipment and vehicles, ensuring all protocols are followed.
• Assist with manual tasks, including the installation of survey assets and the transportation of equipment to and from survey sites.
• Perform monthly or quarterly on-site instrument calibrations to ensure the accuracy of surveying equipment.
• Assist surveyors in drafting survey notes and detailed drawings based on the collected data
• Complete tasks efficiently and proactively while maintaining a high level of punctuality to ensure smooth workflow and project timelines.

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

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance [add/remove if required]

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. 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 then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

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.

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.