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 Testing & Commissioning Engineer  within the Quality & Assurance Team. This role will be based on site in Coleshill.

This roles purpose is to ensure that all Testing and Commissioning activities are effectively executed to achieve project objectives and control T&C and project related risks. Manage the development, preparation, execution and reporting of all projects specific Commissioning management activities.

Role Responsibilities

• Implement the BBV MEP T&C Strategy and maintain the BBV Testing and Commissioning and Operation and Maintenance Plans, on a risk-based approach comprising operation and maintenance documents, as-built records, schedule of assets, manuals, and other information for the purposes of testing, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and handover of the works
• Elaborate the Commissioning Management and Operation and Maintenance Strategies
• Manage the preparation of Commission ability reviews to identify potential design issues 
• Overseeing commissioning of MEP and Structural Health Monitoring
• Coordination with subcontractors/suppliers to prepare Method Statements and testing procedures for T&C
• Schedule of all Testing & Commissioning activities (MEP and special systems)
  

Experienced required

• Relevant experience in the management of Testing and Commissioning on major projects with minimum CSA Grade 5 preferred.
• Knowledge in testing, installation, testing and commission
• Able to build and lead project team; anticipation of problems and taking timely preventive action.
• ISO 9001 Audit Experience a plus
• Trainer Experience
• Power BI and Microsoft platform experience

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

• Car/ car allowance 

• 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.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.