Senior Consents Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working available

Travel allowance

Family friendly leave policies

Health risk assessments

Access to employee assistance programmes

Access to annual flu vaccinations

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm is seeking a Senior Consents Engineer based in Coleshill. This role involves identifying consentable areas, guiding the consent process, and liaising with various project teams to track ongoing consents. Candidates must possess strong communication skills and a proactive attitude, along with a current driving licence and CSCS Card. The firm offers flexible working, a travel allowance, and family-friendly policies.

Qualifications

• Current valid right to work in the UK.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Experience in liaising with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Guide consent processes for the wider sublot delivery team.
• Review works with the Core Consents Team to ensure timelines.
• Liaise with various teams to track and manage consent responsibilities.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Ownership of tasks

Time management

Ability to work on own initiative

Collaborative meeting facilitation

Education

CSCS Card

Job description

Position

Senior Consents Engineer – based in Coleshill.

Responsibilities

• Identify consentable areas within a scope of works and provide support and guidance on the consent needs to the wider sublot delivery team.
• Utilise information, technical reports, designs, BIM and GIS data to programme consents and ensure approval of works prior to commencement of activities.
• Review upcoming works with Core Consents Team and programmers to ensure commencement dates are achievable.
• Develop a working understanding of the contract and technical requirements of various consents including but not limited to Highways, Noise, Water and Ecology.
• Liaise with Core Consent Team to track the progress of upcoming, ongoing and completed consents in line with the project programme and provide reports on risks where appropriate.
• Provide feedback to the sublot planning manager on future consent requirements so these can be incorporated into the programme.
• Liaise with the Core Consents Team, Temporary Works, Utilities, Drainage, Logistics and Traffic Management Teams to ensure they are aware of their associated consent responsibilities for each element of the project.

Qualifications

• A strong communicator that can use a variety of methods when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to chair meetings, creating a collaborative platform for attendees to contribute to.
• Takes ownership of tasks and communicates outcomes.
• Manages the production of tasks, delegating and monitoring their progress.
• Able to work on own initiative and seek out opportunities in line with level of responsibility.
• A willingness to learn and actively seek out information on their own accord.
• Good time management and organised.
• Holds a current driving licence and CSCS Card.

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

Benefits

• 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 has 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 a 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.