Job Title: Ganger
Location: Scotland
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Ganger to join our Scotland team.
As a Ganger, you will provide day-to-day leadership and control of site operations teams, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards. You will play a key role in driving a positive safety culture, supporting operational excellence and ensuring teams are motivated, engaged and aligned with project objectives.
Working closely with Supervisors, Team Leads and wider project teams, you will be responsible for coordinating site activities, monitoring performance and ensuring all work is completed in accordance with health, safety, environmental and quality requirements.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate site operations teams to deliver work safely, efficiently and to programme requirements.
- Promote and demonstrate Balfour Beatty's values and behaviours at all times.
- Maintain a relentless focus on health, safety and wellbeing, supporting our Zero Harm ambition.
- Support sustainability initiatives and ensure environmental requirements are effectively communicated and understood by the workforce.
- Motivate team members, monitor performance and provide coaching and support where required.
- Ensure safe systems of work are understood and followed by all team members.
- Identify training requirements and support the ongoing development of the workforce.
- Take ownership of tasks and ensure quality expectations are consistently achieved.
- Support site audits, inspections and reviews, ensuring appropriate actions are implemented.
- Promote a culture of Right First Time and continuous improvement.
- Deliver Quality Tool Box Talks and reinforce quality standards across the team.
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project objectives.
Essential
- Experience leading teams within a construction, infrastructure or civil engineering environment.
- Ability to clearly communicate safe systems of work and ensure compliance on site.
- Strong leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Ability to work on your own initiative and take ownership of responsibilities.
- Strong understanding of current health and safety legislation and best practice.
- Current driving licence.
- SSSTS qualification.
- CSCS Gold Card or NVQ Level 3.
- Previous experience leading operational teams on infrastructure projects.
- A proactive and solution-focused approach to problem solving.
- Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ability to act as a role model and positively influence team performance.
Why work for us?
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
- 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
About Us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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 are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
