Sub Agent

  • Birmingham
  • 8 days ago

Sub Agent – HS2 (Sublot 4, Curzon Street, Birmingham)

Location: Birmingham

Company: Balfour Beatty VINCI

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Balfour Beatty VINCI is delivering a major section of HS2 in central Birmingham. We're looking for a Sub Agent to lead and manage a section of works near Curzon Street Station. You must have heavy Civils Infrastructure experience. 

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead teams of Engineers to deliver safe and efficient construction works.
  • Manage Method Statements, Risk Assessments, and Permits to Work.
  • Support commercial recovery and ensure compliance with programme and quality standards.
  • Carry out incident investigations, audits, and handover documentation.
  • Interface with internal teams and external stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

  • Experience in construction (earthworks, drainage, roadworks, structures, or comms).
  • Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills.
  • SSSTS/SMSTS, CSCS, full driving licence.
  • Able to work independently and lead on H&S, temporary works, and quality control.

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.