Assistant Pre-Construction Manager - Central Belt

Balfour Beatty; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company is seeking an Assistant Pre-Construction Manager to support major projects in Power Transmission & Distribution. The role emphasizes collaboration and coordination to ensure timely project transitions from feasibility to construction. Candidates should have a strong technical background in civil or electrical engineering and excellent stakeholder management skills. Hybrid working arrangements are available, accommodating flexibility for both full-time and part-time applications.

Qualifications

• Highly organised with strong skills in stakeholder coordination.
• Experience in motivating teams to improve performance in pre-construction.
• Technical expertise in civil and/or electrical engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support the Pre-Construction Manager on allocated projects.
• Coordinate project deliverables from feasibility to construction readiness.
• Engage with teams to enhance delivery and share knowledge.

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Team motivation

Collaboration

Technical background in civil/electrical engineering

Job description

About the role

As an Assistant Pre-Construction Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the growth of Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) by contributing to major infrastructure projects during the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and pre-construction phases.

You'll help bridge the gap between business development and project delivery, ensuring a smooth transition into construction. Your focus will be on the successful execution of ECI and Stage One contracts for our key client, Scottish Power Transmission, managing projects from feasibility through to mobilisation and construction readiness.

• Location: Flexible - with project sites located across Glasgow, Fife, and South Edinburgh.
• Working Model: Hybrid - combining home, office, and site-based work depending on project needs.
• Flexibility: We welcome both full-time and part-time applications. We understand that the best people aren't always available full-time and are happy to explore flexible working arrangements.

What you\'ll be doing

• Act as a key support to the Pre-Construction Manager, serving as a primary contact for allocated projects and working closely with operational leads.
• Coordinate project deliverables from early feasibility through to final approval for construction mobilisation.
• Contribute to strategic planning that enables smooth progression from ECI to pre-construction and successful site award.
• Collaborate with the proposals team to ensure high-quality, timely bid submissions.
• Help define and communicate clear objectives across the pre-construction and ECI teams.
• Support compliance with CDM 2015 Principal Designer duties in partnership with Design Leads.
• Champion health and safety through early-stage design planning and proactive risk reduction.
• Apply Balfour Beatty standards and promote best practice across all assigned projects.
• Engage with teams across Power T&D, UKCS, and the wider Balfour Beatty Group to enhance delivery and share knowledge.
• Prepare and present progress reports, ensuring key updates are communicated effectively to stakeholders.
• Assist in resource planning to ensure projects are fully prepared for on-site delivery.
• Encourage innovation across pre-construction, design development, and planning activities.
• Support the adoption of BIM Level 2, 3D design tools, and CGI modelling where appropriate.
• Coordinate client deliverables and support regulatory submissions.
• Apply lessons learned across multiple projects to drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to regional and company-wide initiatives, including MyC.

Who we\'re looking for

• A highly organised individual with strong stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to motivate teams and improve overall performance in pre-construction.
• Technical background in civil and/or electrical engineering within infrastructure.
• A collaborative mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and technically skilled environment.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balfour Beatty\'s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/