Leading Cable Hand - Nights

Leading Cable Hand - Nights

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Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Leading Cable Hand for Hinkley Point C and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you. To lead and coordinate cable installation activities on the site, ensuring all works are carried out safely, to specification, and in compliance with site standards and nuclear regulations.

Supervise a small team, allocate tasks, maintain progress, and ensure that quality and safety standards are consistently achieved.

• Ensure that packages are delivered to programme, budget, safety and quality expectations/standards.
• Ensure packages comply with good design practice and relevant technical group standards.
• Ensure that the package is executed with minimum rework.
• Plan, lead, and direct multiple cable teams to achieve installation targets.
• Allocate tasks, monitor productivity, and ensure correct resource deployment.
• Support training and mentoring of less experienced cable hands.
• Ensure all aspects of LV, MV, and HV cable installation, containment, routing, and final fixing are to specifications.
• Act as the point of contact between Supervisors / Cable Chargehand and the workforce.
• Conduct inspections and quality checks to verify installation meets acceptance criteria.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance where required to resolve issues.
• Ensure compliance with Sellafield nuclear safety rules, permits to work, method statements, and risk assessments.
• Oversee the installation, pulling, dressing and final fixing of cables.
• Stop work and escalates immediately if unsafe practices or conditions are identified.
• Liaise with engineers, supervisors, cable charge hand and other trades to coordinate activities.
• Assist with material requisitioning, logistics, and ensuring the correct equipment and materials are available as required.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and contribute toward observation and other KPIs.
• Health, Safety, Environment & Quality (HSEQ).
• Lead by example in maintaining a strong safety‑first culture.
• Ensure that the project team are notified of all potential opportunities and risks.
• Proactively identify and resolve installation issues promptly to minimise delays.
• Support in scheduling obligations our required work durations & sequences.
• Record and report progress (Daily / Weekly).
• Track progress against installation schedules and report on performance, risks, and delays.

• ECS / CSCS Card – Leading Cable Hand
• IOSH Working Safely or equivalent (minimum requirement)
• SSSTS or equivalent supervisory safety training (preferred).
• Manual Handling, Cable Pulling, and Working at Height competency training.
• First Aid at Work (desirable).
• Proven experience of leading cabling teams and overseeing cable installation in the nuclear sector.
• Strong technical knowledge in all aspects of cabling including, segregation requirements, cable fixing specifications and winching operations.
• Ambitious and keen to progress through ECS / JIB Cable grading system.
• Can obtain the required security clearances.
• High levels of integrity.

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.

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise. We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

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