Temporary Works Co-ordinator
| Posting date: | 21 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Avonmouth, BS |
| Company: | Balfour Beatty Plc |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBUK12575-523281 |
Summary
About the role
At Balfour Beatty, we shape the future of critical infrastructure. Our Power T&D business delivers essential energy projects across the UK – and right now, we're recruiting a Temporary Works Coordinator to support high-profile works in South West, including:
- Major infrastructure activities at Bramford Substation (4YB) and Twinstead Tee (4YH) – key locations in the National Grid transmission network
- The Apollo project – a significant substation and network upgrade supporting the UK’s transition to a low-carbon future
Your Role:
You’ll lead and coordinate temporary works across these critical project sites, ensuring they are designed, installed, maintained, and dismantled in line with BS5975, CDM regulations, and Balfour Beatty’s safety-first standards.
What you'll be doing
As Temporary Works Coordinator, you will oversee and manage all aspects of temporary works needed to enable safe and efficient construction. Working on the BTNO project – a nationally significant project designed to improve energy resilience and support the UK’s net zero ambitions – you will ensure all temporary works are:
- Properly planned, designed, and implemented
- Inspected and maintained throughout their use
- Dismantled or removed in a safe and controlled manner
You’ll play a key role in ensuring compliance with legal, industry, and company standards across a high-profile programme of works in and around Ipswich and the East Anglian region.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Act as the temporary works lead on the BTNO project and other supporting sites
- Liaise with Temporary Works Designers, Principal Designers, and site teams
- Maintain the Temporary Works Register and ensure all required checks are completed
- Review and approve temporary works designs in line with BS5975
- Drive a safety-first culture, ensuring all temporary works are safe, compliant, and fit for purpose
- Provide practical support and engineering input across multiple sites when required
- Ensure compliance with CDM regulations and Balfour Beatty procedures
Who we're looking for
- HNC/HND/Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction, or similar
- Recognised Temporary Works Coordinator training and certification
- Experience managing temporary works on major infrastructure or power projects
- In-depth knowledge of BS5975 and temporary works best practices
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Willingness to travel across the UK as part of a flexible, dynamic project delivery team
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.
Competitive salary
37.5-hour workweek (Monday to Friday)
Pension scheme: Up to 5% employee & 7% employer contributions
Family-friendly policies, including:
28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave
4 weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave
25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
Professional development: Access to a wide range of learning opportunities and qualifications
Employee Assistance Programme: Supporting your wellbeing
Volunteering opportunities: 2 paid days per year to give back
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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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