Site Supervisor

Balfour Beatty plc; Telford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working up to 40% remote

25 days annual leave

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Living Places is seeking a proactive Site Supervisor to join the Telford team. You will lead on-site teams, deliver highway maintenance and improvement works, and drive safe, efficient project delivery while maintaining high-quality standards.

The role demands strong leadership, experience in highways/civil works, and the ability to coordinate resources and communicate with clients. Flexible smart-working options may apply, with a focus on delivering visible community improvements

Qualifications

• Experience in highways maintenance, civil engineering, or similar operational setting.
• Strong leadership and people-management abilities.
• Ability to organise workloads and manage multiple activities simultaneously.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of cost-efficient delivery.
• Experience with works programming and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams and subcontractors on site, promoting a Zero Harm culture.
• Manage day-to-day operations across highway maintenance schemes.
• Collaborate with client to understand and deliver programme requirements.
• Provide regular progress updates and programme reports.
• Plan and coordinate labour, plant and resources to meet workload demands.
• Support winter maintenance activities when required.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards.
• Drive performance, productivity and customer satisfaction on the contract.

Skills

Highways maintenance experience

Leadership & people management

Workload planning

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Commercial awareness

Works programming & resource planning

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for a proactive and motivated Site Supervisor to join our Telford team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering highway maintenance and improvement works while leading operational teams to ensure safe, efficient and high-quality delivery.

If you enjoy leading teams, solving problems on site, and making a visible difference to local communities, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

As a Site Supervisor, you'll oversee a range of highways maintenance activities, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading teams and subcontractors on site, promoting a strong Zero Harm culture.
• Managing day-to-day operations across highway maintenance schemes.
• Working closely with the client to understand and deliver programme requirements.
• Providing regular progress updates and programme reports.
• Planning and coordinating labour, plant and resources to meet workload demands.
• Supporting winter maintenance operations when required.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant health, safety and environmental standards.
• Driving performance, productivity and customer satisfaction across the contract.

Who we're looking for

We're keen to hear from people who have:

• Experience working within highways maintenance, civil engineering or a similar operational environment.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• The ability to organise workloads and manage multiple activities simultaneously.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of cost-effective delivery.
• Experience of works programming and resource planning.

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

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

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