Noise and Vibration Specialist

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 Construction Noise and
Vibration Specialist within the Construction Environmental & Sustainability
function. This role will be based on site in Coleshill. Our head office is located within an
excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via
rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham
international.

Role Description:

• Assurance of all construction noise and vibration deliverables.
• Investigations and responses in respect of noise and vibration complaints/incidents.
• Assessing compliance with Environmental Minimum Requirements, S61 consents, Undertakings
  & Assurances and relevant contract technical requirements.
• Offering and arranging noise insulation or temporary rehousing for properties which are
  eligible (and take up the offers).
• Providing evidence in relation to construction noise and vibration for verification,
  validation and technical assurance reviews.

Experienced required:

• Corporate Membership of the Institute of Acoustics.
• Organised, proactive and adaptable.
• A sound understanding of noise and vibration Environmental Impact Assessment process,
  environmental legislation, impact mitigation and dealing with statutory authorities.
• Practical experience mitigating construction noise and vibration from major infrastructure
  schemes.
• Experience of managing construction noise and vibration risks and their impacts in terms of
  time, costs and reputation.
• Understanding of the benefits of working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the
  project
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with people from a wide range of backgrounds
  and 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 requirement