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Balfour Beatty to add 2,000 UK jobs on power transmission growth
Balfour Beatty will grow its UK workforce from around 14,000 to 16,000 over two years, citing a £2.1 billion UK power transmission order book and a further £6-8 billion identified pipeline. Half the new roles will come through apprenticeships and graduate schemes. Group chief executive Philip Hoare called the expansion "a clear vote of confidence in the market".
Our readThe scale of the transmission order book, not the headcount figure, is the real signal: Balfour Beatty is betting its growth on the grid build-out rather than roads or rail.
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