Skills Education & Employment Lead

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About the role

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick are looking for an experienced Skills, Education & Employment Lead to play a pivotal role in building a future-ready workforce across the Sizewell C MEH Alliance. This role sits at the heart of our commitment to inclusion, diversity and long-term socio-economic impact, driving initiatives that promote skills development, education partnerships and local employment opportunities.

You will lead all activity across STEM engagement, education partnerships, early careers and wider skills programmes, working collaboratively with internal teams, partner organisations and external stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes for the project and the local community.

Location: Suffolk (2-3 days per week on site)

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities

* Lead and deliver the Skills, Education and Employment strategy aligned to the MEH Alliance's objectives

* Work closely with the Social Impact team to ensure skills KPIs are tracked and reported effectively

* Identify emerging skills requirements and workforce trends across the project

* Lead Early Careers recruitment, induction and development, partnering with alliance organisations to ensure a diverse and inclusive approach

* Collaborate with enterprise partners and the supply chain to ensure Skills, Education and Employment commitments are met at all levels

* Build and maintain strong partnerships with education providers, community groups, apprenticeship providers, industry bodies and government organisations

* Design and oversee apprenticeship, graduate, intern and CPD programmes in partnership with parent companies

* Lead outreach initiatives to attract talent from diverse community groups, including prison leavers, armed forces veterans and the long-term unemployed

* Represent the Alliance at careers fairs, industry events and educational forums

* Support local employment by working with HR teams to forecast and fill key roles with local talent

Who we're looking for

You'll be a confident, collaborative professional with a strong background in skills, education and employment programmes, ideally within large or complex environments.

Essential experience and qualities:

* Proven experience in a Skills, Education and Employment role

* Strong understanding of national policy, trends and best practice within the SEE landscape

* Experience designing, delivering and evaluating learning programmes, including blended learning

* Knowledge of early careers programmes (graduates, apprentices, school leavers)

* Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working up to director level

* Understanding of the regional socio-economic environment

* Highly organised, motivated and comfortable managing multiple priorities

* Strong cultural awareness and a people-focused approach

* Able to obtain a security clearance

Desirable:

* Experience working in a complex, multi-contractor environment

* Experience on large UK infrastructure projects

* Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office

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.

Why join us?

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.

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

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.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

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