Methods Engineer

Methods Engineer

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway.. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Methods Engineer within the Design team.

This role will be based on site in Water Orton, The project’s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands, this sublot includes the Delta Junction – a triangular section of the high-speed railway made up of nine precast segmental viaducts, embankments, and other bridging structures, with around 10km of track crossing a network of motorways, roads and rivers.

To deliver high quality and safe work methods within the HS2 project following the Temporary Works requirements defined by BBV and especially:

• To define the site installations provisions related to each working site.

• To define the related work sequences related to the delivery of each part of assets.

• To define the lifting plans related to any lifting operation including the design of the lifting equipment.

• To share the temporary works concept required with the Temporary Works teams.

• To participate to the elaboration of the technical parts of the Scope of Works with the construction teams, with respect to the consultation of equipment supplier or manufacturer.

• To supervise, review and validate the elaboration of drawings related to the aforementioned.

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• At least 5 years of experience as a method engineer on Civil Engineering major construction projects.

• Excellent skills in Autocad.

• Skills in designing formwork, scaffold and falseworks.

• Knowledge of lifting equipment (mobile crane, crawler crane, lifting gears, tower crane).

• Ability to develop construction sequence.

• Design of steel and concrete structure.

• Good skills in hydraulics equipment such as single and double acting jacks, hollow core jacks, hydraulic power packs.

• Coordination and communication skills in a multi-cultural environment.

• Ability to follow the rules.

• Excellent skills in composite viaducts, concrete precast

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

•Flexible working available for some roles

•Free parking

•Travel allowance for eligible candidates

•Family friendly leave policies

•Excellent pension contributions

•Healthcare

•Health risk assessments

•Access to employee assistance programmes

•Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

•9.3km of viaducts

•62 overbridges

•35 cuttings

•56 culverts

•62 embankments

•2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

•28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion: Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability