Temporary Works Coordinator

Temporary Works Coordinator – Balfour Beatty plc

Join us as a Temporary Works Coordinator and play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe and efficient execution of temporary works across our rail infrastructure projects.

The Temporary Works Coordinator will compile and periodically update a Temporary Works Schedule with all relevant information and review it regularly with the Temporary Works Designer and Project Lead.

• Support the Project Team with technical guidance, leadership, and site safety.
• Monitor the project's performance to maximise efficiency and project delivery.
• Coordinate with all parties involved in the design and construction of temporary works to deliver safe technical solutions.
• Liaise with clients to determine if schemes may affect the public and to ascertain the approval process and certification required.
• Prepare and review the design brief for adequacy and completeness before issue to Temporary Works Design, ensuring compliance with the design brief and adequate risk description.
• Ensure that an adequate Temporary Works Design is carried out, manage design progress, and act as a key interface with the Construction Team to understand requirements and timescales.
• Ensure realistic timing for temporary works designs, checking, and construction within the construction programme.
• Discuss any changes to the design with the TWD and manage the design change process.
• Issue Temporary Works Design Check Confirmation/Approval forms (ENG‑SF‑4004).
• Ensure compliance with the risk assessment and mitigation plan, managing technical risks during pre‑construction and delivery phases.
• Support the delivery of Permanent & Temporary Works design requirements, construction activities, risk and mitigation plans, method statements, and work package plans.
• Carry out technical, quality, and compliance audit inspections of Temporary Works before loading and unloading, ensuring competent personnel perform on‑site duties and adherence to applicable standards.
• Draw up and agree with the site team a list of ‘hold points’ for certain operations that require inspection before work proceeds.
• Inspect temporary works installations to ensure they match designs and monitor any on‑site changes, submitting significant revisions for redesign by the designer.

• HNC/HND Civil Engineering (preferred but not essential).
• Charted Engineer – CEng (preferred) or IEng.
• Relevant experience in a Temporary Works Coordinator role, preferably on railway infrastructure projects, or similar type and complexity.
• Detailed knowledge of BS5975:2019 and its application on live projects.
• Collaborative and influential leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, able to listen and provide clear, concise instruction, assertive, and share information effectively.
• Self‑motivated and driven, able to multi‑task, prioritise and remain calm under pressure.
• Conscientious, systematic and thorough, with a positive attitude towards rules, process and procedures.
• Capable of making timely decisions and taking appropriate action, with willingness to face challenges, diagnose and solve problems, and take responsibility for outcomes.

• Smart working, flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full‑pay maternity/adoption leave; four weeks full‑pay paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth. From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multidisciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

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 an inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. 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 offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabil