Gateman

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Gateman for our Mottram Moor Link Road and A57 Link Road highways improvement scheme.

Balfour 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.

As a Gateman, you will be tasked to manage and control access and egress into the construction site; maintaining the yard and the stores and waste area, arranging for the skips to be exchanged, checking and maintaining safety signs and ordering PPE.

• Sign in / out and record all construction site deliveries
• Distribute / advise deliveries to required supervisors
• Ensure the construction site is kept locked and secure throughout the shift
• Present a positive image of the company to all visitors and offer assistance at all times
• Marshalling traffic and vehicles
• General tidying and housekeeping and maintain signage
• May have to assist with the work on site as and when required
• Ensure all workers and visitors sign in and out of the site using M Site
• Liaise with site staff to plan ahead for the day’s delivery and despatch schedule
• Open gate and Lock up the gate at the end of the day
• Checking all deliveries comply to site rules, if not vehicles must be turned away

• A good communicator with professionals across all levels of the site
• Candidate must be alert at all times with excellent level of awareness
• Excellent attention to detail when logging the entrance/exit activities
• Flexible, especially if the project is located away from home
• Holds a current driving license and CSCS Card

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate:

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our  portal.

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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

We are 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://disabil

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