Assistant Site Engineer OHL

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Assistant Site Engineer (OHL) – Power T&D 🚧

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Join Balfour Beatty and be part of a team that powers communities across the UK. We are looking for an Assistant Site Engineer (Overhead Lines – OHL) to join our Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Team, supporting works at:

Crescent Industrial Estate, Station Rd, Nursling, Southampton SO16 0YD

• Attend periodic project reviews (PRM) and update the Digital Briefcase in accordance with GBL
• Maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)
• Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholders
• Initiates good scope/information/configuration management principles
• Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost effective decisions in line with overall strategy
• Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
• Awareness of discipline
• Setting out awareness
• Learning how to read technical information and drawings
• Numerical skills
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in legislation
• Partially responsible for the safety and welfare of the general public, employees and supply chain
• Support periodic Safety & Environmental Tours/promote observation and safety initiatives
• Monitor effectiveness of the H&S Management System and suggest improvement solutions
• Awareness of welfare requirements
• Read and understand RAMS
• Identifying, raising and reporting risks and hazards
• Incident response, H&S response
• Understand competencies
• Reinforce golden rules
• Help to update resource allocation plans (OBS) and raise appropriate requests
• Motivate and empower other sharing resources available through training
• Working with others
• Plan own daily tasks
• Check competencies
• Escalating issues
• Empowerment to stop works
• Help to develop, implement and periodically update resource loaded schedules
• Ensure team adopt productivity and project controls techniques
• Monitor progress and implement Short Interval Control processes/hold weekly meeting
• Ensure production of operational milestones reflect master schedule and customer expectations

• Experience in implementing safe systems of work
• Experience in managing risks and change processes
• Good understanding of the standard forms of contracts
• Proficient in commercial/project management communications
• Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the organisation
• Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business and be able to negotiate and influence
• Able to undertake work in high pressure situations with a flexible attitude
• A record of a solutions-based approach to problem solving
• Demonstrate awareness and support of the benefits of diversity and inclusion
• Communicate and check understanding of daily briefings
• Raise new concepts and ideas
• Develop social skills
• Support diversity and inclusion
• Manage own personal development

• Experience of working on a variety of project types
• Proficient on O365
• Holds a current driving license

• Holds or working towards a formal qualification (BSc/MSc) in management/construction or experience equivalent
• Holds CSCS and SSSTS or Equivalent

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.

• 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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to…