Major HS2 recruitment drive offers wide range of opportunities
"The broad scope of jobs on offer reflects the diversity that a career in construction can bring."
HS2’s construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), is launching a major recruitment drive to bolster its workforce ready to deliver its huge programme of construction works in 2022 and beyond.
Around 1.700 staff are already working at construction sites and in satellite offices across Warwickshire, Solihull and Birmingham and the company is now looking to welcome more recruits.
BBV expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the region over the coming years. It is leading the construction of the 90km section of Britain’s new railway from Warwickshire into Birmingham city centre and on to Staffordshire. It expects to create around 7,000 jobs in total and is committed to ensuring that local people benefit.
BBV’s expanding workforce is reflective of the scale of works ahead. 2022 is shaping up to be a significant year in HS2’s construction programme, with tunnel boring machine ‘Dorothy’ set to become the first TBM on the HS2 route to breakthrough. Following her milestone achievement, which is expected in the spring, Dorothy will return to Long Itchington in Warwickshire to bore her second tunnel.
Work is also gathering pace at HS2’s two new station sites - Interchange in Solihull and Curzon Street in Birmingham - where preparatory works are underway to construct the series of viaducts that will bring HS2 trains into the city’s flagship terminus station.
The broad scope of jobs on offer reflects the diversity that a career in construction can bring. There are currently job vacancies for those seeking a site-based role including materials technicians, signallers, general operatives, traffic marshalls and engineering assistants. Office-based roles include opportunities in BBV’s procurement, transport planning, skills and education and finance teams.
HS2 and its construction partners are working closely with Warwickshire County Council and their Warwickshire Skills Hub team to support people who are out of work, or looking for a career change, into employment on the project. For more information about opportunities to work on HS2 in Warwickshire please visit hs2.org.uk/jobs-and-skills