Streetworks Permitting Officer
| Posting date: | 20 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN |
| Company: | Balfour Beatty Plc |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBUK13872-523216 |
Summary
About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Living places team as a Streetworks Permitting Officer in Horncastle , 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
• Schedule and manage day to day permit applications on confirm system.
• Managing requests for early starts / extensions/ data variation’s required for permits.
• Liaise with Supervisors Agents for updates and ensure recording timely starts, stops on permits to avoid any FPN’s.
• Review Causeway (One Network) to ensure Network Availability when planning works to avoid any conflicts, or potential collaboration with Balfour Beatty schemes / Utilities.
• Review Jobs on confirm to ensure accurate information on works description & location so reflects correctly on permits. Along with checking any plans uploaded to confirm to ensure extent of works are covered under the current location provided.
Who we're looking for
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload with demonstrating good time management and comply to deadlines with attention to detail.
• Good communication skills, verbal and written with ability to deal with difficult situations.
• Ability to understand needs and provide solutions to problems.
• Ability to work on their own initiative and be able to schedule workload to meet priorities.
• Understanding of the Business Management Systems and processes.
• Demonstrable experience of reviewing and implementing safe systems of work.
PERSONAL QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCE
• Team player who knows how to build and sustain relationships.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Adaptable to changing situations.
• Demonstrable computing skills.
The following qualities/experience are desirable:
• Experience in the use of Confirm including Workzone.
• Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract.
• Experience in a construction environment.
• Understanding of NRSWA compliance procedures.
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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