Trainee Materials Technician

Balfour Beatty's Highways; Oakley; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is offering an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Materials Technician. This role involves working with cutting-edge technology to test construction materials, ensuring quality and safety on major projects. Successful candidates will have a proactive attitude and a willingness to learn, contributing to a team focused on delivering innovative infrastructure solutions. The position offers an attractive salary and various employee benefits, promoting a safe and inclusive workplace environment.

Benefits

Negotiated salary

25 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

Qualifications

• Open to all candidates with the right attitude and aptitude.
• Enthusiasm and drive to learn about the sector.
• Creative, committed, and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe laboratory and construction site operations.
• Test properties of construction materials.
• Support quality through established testing methods.

Skills

Flexible ability to work across various locations

Proactive in identifying problems

Ability to meet safety standards

Job description

Do you want the chance to say you were a part of history? If so, we're offering you the opportunity to work using cutting edge technology to test construction materials. Balfour Beatty is the UK's largest construction company with involvements in a wide range of projects across the UK including Nuclear, High‑Speed Rail, Highways and Net‑Zero/Carbon reduction projects. As a Trainee Materials Technician, you'll be working as part of a small team to ensure the effective delivery of major construction projects within the United Kingdom, creating better connections for the local community.

Responsibilities

• Working safely within the laboratory and on construction sites.
• Working alongside other team members to test the properties of construction materials including concrete, grout and aggregates.
• Improving the performance of existing products that are already in place.
• Developing an understanding, knowledge and practical methods used to examine materials, including non‑destructive testing (NDT).
• Working to established test methods to ensure quality and to support the lab in maintaining its accreditation.
• Travelling to and from sites, collecting materials for testing.

Qualifications

• Open to wildcards – we accept candidates with the right attitude and aptitude to fit in at Balfour Beatty.
• Enthusiasm over school results; drive to learn more about the sector and to be candid about what you know and don’t know.
• Creative and committed; proactive in identifying problems and defects.
• Flexible ability to work across various locations and comfortable working on your feet.
• Capable of meeting targets while upholding safety standards.

About Balfour Beatty’s Highways Business

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 order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 a diverse workforce and developing an inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of identity or background. We are 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 also offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Benefits

• An attractive / negotiated salary.
• 42 core base hours per week.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Pension savings schemes.
• A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc).
• Refer a friend bonus scheme.
• 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.