Temporary Works Coordinator | Design Engineering

About the role

Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major infrastructure schemes, including smart motorway upgrades, complex national projects, and regional investment programme works for National Highways.

As a Temporary Works Coordinator on the A57 Highways project, you will coordinate with all parties involved in the design and construction of temporary works, liaising with clients to assess public impact and confirm approval and certification requirements. You will maintain and review the Temporary Works Schedule with the Temporary Works Designer and Project Lead, ensuring designs are carried out to a high standard and obtained within programme deadlines.

You will review design briefs for completeness, manage design changes, and assess the competence of temporary works in consultation with the Project Lead. You will ensure all temporary works activities are effectively integrated into the wider construction programme and are compliant with relevant standards and regulations.

You are a highly skilled and experienced Temporary Works Coordinator with a degree or equivalent in civil or geotechnical engineering. You are a Chartered Engineer or working towards CEng status with either the ICE or IStruct

E. You have proven experience in the management of temporary works in civil engineering projects and expert knowledge of BS5975. Your communication and team‑working skills are excellent, and you have detailed knowledge of CDM Regulations, including Principal Contractor and Designer responsibilities. You are professional, proactive and confident in managing design and construction teams, ensuring temporary works are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standard.

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.

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…

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; we put 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.

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. We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE).

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.