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Join Our Team as a Foreman – Balvac.

Location: Various UK Sites.

Full-time | Permanent.

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Foreman to join our Balvac team.

For over 90 years, Balvac has delivered innovative structural repair, strengthening, protection, and maintenance solutions to sustainably extend the life of the UK’s infrastructure. Our clients include National Highways and major local authorities across the UK. While our core focus is Transport Infrastructure, we also support the power, energy, industrial, defence, and coastal & marine sectors.

With a growing portfolio and major expansion underway, we’re looking for talented individuals to join our high‑energy, forward‑thinking team.

• Day‑to‑day control, planning, organisation, and supervision of internal resources and subcontractors.
• Ensuring works are constructed in line with contract drawings, specifications, and the Project Management Plan.
• Briefing construction method statements to ensure efficient and safe delivery.
• Promoting and applying Health, Safety & Environmental procedures and fostering a strong safety culture.
• Supporting and driving behavioural safety on site.
• Monitoring progress, reporting updates, and driving achievement of project goals.
• Proactively identifying and resolving issues on site.
• Maintaining site housekeeping and managing waste segregation.

• Experience in delivering structural repair/specialist repair projects.
• Experience working on infrastructure schemes.
• Ability to manage individuals and teams efficiently.
• Ability to manage individual scheme costs.
• Strong understanding and management of Health and Safety, including Behavioural Safety.
• Ability to lead, communicate and influence others to deliver targets.

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…

Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.

Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, crack injection, leak sealing injection, structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, corrosion protection and cathodic protection, post‑tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.

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. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

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 are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com