Site Supervisor

About The Role

Balfour Beatty have a fantastic opportunity for a Site supervisor to work within our Power T&D team for ensuring the operatives on the project are trained to carry out the works in a safe, competent, and timely manner using the appropriate type and quantities of Plant and Equipment.

Balfour Beatty have a fantastic opportunity for a Site supervisor to work within our Power T&D team for ensuring the operatives on the project are trained to carry out the works in a safe, competent, and timely manner using the appropriate type and quantities of Plant and Equipment.

Working in partnership with the Project Manager, Site Manager and Site Engineer(s) to ensure the project is delivered to programme, discussing and resolving any project delivery issues that may arise.

The location for this role is North East area

• Review the scope of works to be carried out with the Project and/or Site Engineers, identifying and agreeing safe systems of work to be employed.
• Liaise with the Project and/or Site Engineer to ensure a timely requisition for sufficient plant and equipment is made, giving adequate notice to Resources.
• Arrange that all operatives and subcontractors are given site inductions prior to any site activities starting and daily briefings prior to commencing any activity.
• Ensure all site personnel have the correct authorisations to operate plant or receive permits.
• Ensure all site personnel training requirements are in date.
• Ensure and monitor that all site personnel have the correct PPE and welfare facilities on site.
• Carry out MSR (Management Safety Representative) checks of working practices at site in conjunction with the Clients nominated MSR.
• Assist the Engineer in carrying out weekly inspections of all plant, lifting equipment and recording on the appropriate forms.
• Ensure that the weekly log (defect) book, for all vans, are correctly filled in, collected and returned to the Engineer. A random visual inspection of all vehicles shall be carried out on a daily basis.
• Ensure Permit to Work near Existing Services documentation is clearly and correctly carried out for all ground breaking activities related to construction works.
• The Supervisor must establish morning and evening Meeting Points for all operatives to meet and be briefed in safety matters, toolbox talks, scope of work activities, register attendance/absence and to ensure all operatives have left the site at the end of the day.
• Ensure all site materials are stored in a safe and secure manner, waste materials are removed from site promptly and good housekeeping is maintained at all times.
• Ensure the Engineer has all necessary information to arrange on site security.
• Attend regular safety forums with site operatives, encouraging new initiatives, to address issues relating to safe working practices, promoting near miss reporting and reviewing
• Communicate safety alerts and information to all persons involved in construction operations.
• Assist the Safety Department to investigate accidents, incidents and near misses.
• Ensure site records are handed over to the Engineer for final records to be produced in a timely manner.
• Complete all quality records to ensure safe completion of the work inclusive of ITPs.
• Be responsible for the operative's time sheets being filled in correctly, showing the daily progress, operatives names, rates, works numbers, hours worked, plant and vehicles (hired and BB owned) utilised and work carried out.
• Be frontline supervisor to the operatives for raised issues before escalation.

• Experience of Management and Delivery of Overhead Line, Cabling or Substation schemes up to 400kV preferable.
• Preferably SSE Authorisations
• Completion of SSSTS
• Completion of AWNES
• Completion…