Job Description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has a number of upcoming opportunities for Tunnelling Experts with good working knowledge of SCL/Secondary Lining to join our amazing Major Projects and Rail Teams across the West Midlands, London and SW of England.

Balfour Beatty are delivering some of the most complex marine, rail and infrastructure engineering projects that have been undertaken over the past ten years and a current projects portfolio to support us further for the next ten years!

What you\'ll be doing

We will be seeking to identify a number of key individuals generally with the following disciplines: -

Sub Agents

Project Managers

Shift Managers

All the above would of course have a reasonable level of expertise within the tunnelling projects sector.

Who we\'re looking for

You will have the following:

• Civil Engineering academia, HNC and above
• Holding a valid CSCS card, SMSTS / IOSH
• Good exposure relevant tunnelling experience
• UK Driving License

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• Company Car or Car Allowance (job grade dependant)
• 42 base hours per week
• Shift working uplift allowance (where applicable)
• 25 days annual leave
• Annual company bonus scheme (job grade dependant)
• Pension savings schemes
• Subsistence and travel (where applicable) paid
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, special offers etc)

About us

Balfour Beatty Major Projects have delivered some of the UKs most complex and iconic infrastructure projects, including Blackfriars Station, the Olympic Aquatics Centre and the Olympic Stadium transformation. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully, from consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Through our expert capability, we work closely with clients to use the latest technology, machinery and innovative solutions to meet their engineering and construction needs.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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 are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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