Highways Co-ordinator – M25, London

Job title:

Highways Co-ordinator – M25, London

Company

Balfour Beatty

Job description

About the roleBalfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Highways Co-ordinator as part of the Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based in South Mimms.You will assist in the safe and efficient programming of all Maintenance, Incident Support and Emergency Response activities on the M25 DBFO Network. Provide technical and administrative support to the O&M Manager in the effective management of all operations in the quadrant.What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for efficient programming of all works in quadrant – producing quadrant plan.
• Working with the O&M Manager to continually adjust and refine short-term programme to ensure all KPIs (Cat1, Cat 2 defects, and compliance with Environmental Protection Act) and planned preventative maintenance for highways and structures are met.
• Maximising utilisation of direct labour, identifying potential shortfalls and mitigation. Raising SCIs as required.
• Managing rota and liaising with Shift Managers to ensure that all shifts are adequately staffed.
• Maximising efficient use of plant and materials and identifying shortfalls. Hiring and off-hiring plant and ordering materials/maintaining stock as required minimising wastage and spending.
• Ensure all road space is booked and used efficiently through co-ordination with other internal and external works
• Assist O&M Manager with detailed resource planning, including people, plant and materials.
• Processing weekly and monthly timesheets, ensuring that Shift Managers have correctly allocated all costs.
• Process delivery notes into the financial management system.
• Liaise with other O&M Programmers and quadrant teams to improve utilisation of resources across the network and share innovative ideas to improve Service Delivery.
• Collate and maintain records relating to Severe Weather Events and update the Winter Database.
• Collate and maintain records relating to planned preventative maintenance for highways and structures.
• Manage DWB, Watchman and customer enquiries databases and ensure escalation of key issues for action.
• To provide general administrative support within a working depot environment.
• Live the Connect Plus Services Values
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of the businesses Sustainability activities

Who we’re looking forThe following qualities/experience are essential:

• CSCS card holder Site Visitor/Operative
• Previous experience in highway maintenance or regulated sectors (eg rail/utilities)
• Knowledge and experience of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality standards within a highways context
• Current UK driving license
• Previous experience of working in an operational depot environment
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office applications MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project (or similar).
• Experience of purchasing and / or storekeeping
• Experience of planning shift rotas

Why work for usCPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsR alis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over 100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.About usAt Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyoneTo help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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Location

Barnet, Greater London – London

Job date

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:48:34 GMT

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