Street Works Officer
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | East Sussex, BN8 5NP |
| Company: | Balfour Beatty Plc |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBUK12522-522583 |
Summary
About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Living Places team as a Street Works Officer, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
- Provide a high-quality service to assist in the achievement of departmental. service and personal performance targets.
- Assist with planning, delivery and monitoring of the core objectives of the team and support other team members when required.
- Assist in reviewing, testing and developing programme and process' to ensure the core objectives of the team are delivered in an efficient and effective manner and meet corporate and locally set quality standards.
- Research customer enquiries and provide accurate and timely information, advice, and guidance to internal and external customers.
- Review permit applications to work on the highway, Grant or refuse Permits and issue appropriate conditions.
- Undertake Network Compliance duties to review and produce permit fee invoices.
- Liaise proactively with customers, utilities and colleagues and participate in the development of effective working relationships.
- Attend and organise meetings to contribute appropriately and assist with research, analysis and reporting information.
Who we're looking for
- Excellent IT and report writing skills, with the ability to communicate at highest levels.
- Good knowledge and experience of legislation and codes of practice as they relate to role.
- Experience of working in a Network Management environment.
- Working knowledge of Permit Schemes for roads & street works.
Why work for us
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.
Why join us?
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…
About us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
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
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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. 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
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