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 Continuous Improvement Apprentice (Level 4). This role will be based on site in Birmingham. 

As a Continuous Improvement Apprentice (Level 4) you will be part of the Innovation and Transformation Team who are responsible for identifying, leading, and supporting process improvement initiatives across the project. A focus will be on driving operational efficiency, through implementing greater use of digital technologies across the project, and the deployment of Lean tools to drive performance improvements. The apprentice will have the opportunity to work with both our lean and digital transformation teams.

As an Apprentice in our Innovation and Transformation Team, you will gain hands-on experience and training in both Lean and digital transformation. You will work closely with experienced change practitioners, participating in various improvement projects.

Accountabilities

• Identify opportunities for improvement though process analysis, data evaluation, and stakeholder collaboration.
• Undertake requirements gathering to support the development of digital systems to support our construction activities.
• To work closely with the sublot teams to gather detailed information on the project experiences, processes, and outcomes.
• Lead and support on both Continuous Improvement and Digital Transformation projects.
• Collaborate with project managers, site engineers and other stakeholders to gain insights into the factors influencing project performance.
• Prepare comprehensive reports ensuring clarity, accuracy, and relevance.
• Implement standard work procedures to ensure consistency in best practices across the project.
• Identifying, creating, and publishing case studies and comms to capture the benefits of the Innovation and Transformation team’s successes and projects.
• Supporting the on-going management of My Contribution, which is the BBV suggestion scheme, and strive to deliver a strategy, engage staff, and implement projects.
  

Experience required

• Proactive and a self-starter.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, carefully managing responsibilities and interdependencies.
• Good facilitation skills and able to present to groups confidently.
• Able to confidently drive change, engage, influence, and motivate people to support the lessons learned initiative.
• Excellent communications skills, comfortable both in the office and onsite.
  

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

Apprenticeship Overview

• Standard: SImprovement practitioner
• Apprenticeship Length: 14 months (this does not include EPA period)

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.

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.