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Overview

Install, maintain & repair overhead power lines up to 400kV for Balfour Beatty.

Key Responsibilities

• earthing
• power lines
• site safety
• accident reporting
• compliance
• piloting

Tasks

-Work as part of a team to ensure the safe, effective and efficient implementation of Balfour Beatty operations -Apply appropriate earthing schemes to dissipate induced voltages -Maintain site safety at all times and complete daily risk assessments where required -Ensure that accidents and near misses are suitably reported -Ensure that accidents and incidents are promptly reported to the Foreman -Carry out all work in accordance with the standards, policies and procedures of Balfour Beatty and its clients -Maintain and develop new skills and competencies in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards and legislative changes -Complete all work to Balfour Beatty high quality standards -Understand and use the safe systems of work to be employed at the work site. -Piloting work -Wear the correct PPE at all times and use any specific PPE as required or instructed. -To install, build and refurbish overhead power lines up to 400kV

Requirements

• competent card
• driving licence
• power knowledge
• heights
• teamwork
• communication

What You Bring

-To hold a National Grid competent persons card – permit to work -Experience of working on a variety of construction project types. -Knowledge of the Power industry -Full clean driving licence -Lifting and lowering -Hand tools -Conform to all instructions stated in method statements and risk assessments -Flexibility – Willing to travel and work across the UK -Aptitude for working at heights -Ability to work in a team -Good verbal and written communication skills -Only operate plant with the correct authorisation and training. -Understand the site specific risk assessments to ensure all known risks are controlled. -Able to undertake work in high pressure situations -Stockings and J Stops

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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) -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more… -Permanent attachment -Emergency First Aid at Work -Protection systems – fall arrest -Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave -Valid Plant Tickets (will be an advantage) -Spacer trolley

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

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