Senior Temporary Works Co-ordinator

Balfour Beatty plc; Grays; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Pension

Annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Volunteer leave

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Temporary Works Coordinator to lead on major infrastructure projects. You will bridge a gap between Temporary Works Management and field teams, ensuring safe, buildable, and compliant temporary works on site.

The role requires deep technical capability in temporary works, strong leadership, and the ability to drive standards across teams. A hands‑on approach with design review, problem solving, and timely decision‑making is essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering as required.
• 5–10 years’ experience in temporary works (design, coordination, or supervision).
• At least 3 years in a senior or lead TWC role.
• SMSTS and CSCS card held.
• Experience on complex infrastructure or multi‑disciplinary projects.

Responsibilities

• Support the Temporary Works Manager in implementing and maintaining project‑wide temporary works procedures.
• Lead and coordinate a team of Temporary Works Coordinators, ensuring consistent standards and performance.
• Act as the technical authority for temporary works within your area.
• Collaborate with permanent works designers, temporary works designers, and site teams to ensure practical and buildable solutions.
• Plan and manage delivery of TW Design Briefs (TWDBs), ensuring submissions and approvals align with the programme.
• Review and approve Category 3 TW Design Briefs for site suitability.
• Lead constructability reviews and contribute to construction methodologies and sequencing.
• Oversee inspection, maintenance and safe dismantling of temporary works.
• Monitor performance, identify risks, and implement improvements.
• Carry out audits of subcontractors and internal teams for compliance.
• Support competency assessments and training plans for TWCs and TWSs.

Skills

Temporary Works

Senior leadership

Audits & assurance

TWC coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil or Structural Engineering

Job description

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Temporary Works Coordinator (STWC) to take a lead role on the Lower Thames Crossing — a major infrastructure project that includes new roads, complex structures, and the UK’s longest road tunnel under the Thames. On Roads North, the work is varied and technically challenging. You’ll be dealing with everything from deep excavations and ground support to bridge construction, heavy structures, temporary access and lifting, and tricky interfaces with existing infrastructure and utilities. A lot of it involves complex sequencing, so understanding how things fit together in practice is key. You’ll sit between the Temporary Works Manager and the Temporary Works Coordinators, helping to keep things consistent and under control across your area. It’s a hands‑on role — you’ll be in the detail when needed, reviewing designs, working through issues with teams, and making sure things are workable on site — but also setting expectations and keeping standards where they need to be.

What you'll be doing

• Support the Temporary Works Manager in implementing and maintaining the project‑wide temporary works procedure
• Lead and coordinate a team of Temporary Works Coordinators, ensuring consistent standards and performance
• Act as the technical authority for temporary works within your area
• Work closely with permanent works designers, temporary works designers, and site teams to ensure solutions are practical, safe, and buildable
• Plan and manage the delivery of Temporary Works Design Briefs (TWDBs), ensuring AIPs, Form As, and GDRs are submitted and approved in line with programme
• Review and approve Category 3 Temporary Works Design Briefs, ensuring they are suitable for site conditions and constraints
• Lead constructability reviews and contribute to construction methodologies and sequencing
• Oversee the inspection, maintenance, and safe dismantling of temporary works
• Monitor temporary works performance, identify trends or risks, and implement improvements
• Carry out audits of subcontractors and internal teams to ensure compliance
• Support competency assessments, designer reviews, and training plans for TWCs and TWSs
• Ensure clear allocation and acceptance of temporary works responsibilities across all parties

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who can operate confidently at senior level — technically strong, but also able to lead, influence, and make decisions.

Essential

• Degree qualified in Civil or Structural Engineering
• 5–10 years’ experience in temporary works (design, coordination, or supervision)
• At least 3 years in a senior or lead TWC role
• Strong knowledge of BS5975:2019, PAS8811:2017, and CDM Regulations 2015
• Experience working on complex infrastructure or multi‑disciplinary projects
• SMSTS and CSCS card

Desirable

• CITB Temporary Works Coordinator qualification
• Experience on highways, structures, or tunnelling projects
• Experience with audits, assurance, and continuous improvement
• Commercial awareness (scope definition, procurement support, etc.)

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.

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

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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. 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 also encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.