Contracts Manager

Balfour Beatty; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager to oversee complex, high-value projects across the UK. The role demands a strong background in contracts or project management, emphasizing safety and client relationships. Responsibilities include managing project delivery with full P&L responsibility, ensuring compliance with policies, and driving operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership, communication, and commercial skills, with opportunities for career development within a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Strong career development opportunities

Flexible office base

Inclusive working culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Contracts or Project Management within the construction sector.
• Strong leadership capability with the confidence to influence, motivate and lead teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing the delivery and performance of multiple projects, including full P&L responsibility.
• Leading safety with passion and credibility, driving our Zero Harm culture.
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships, managing change and expectations throughout delivery.

Skills

Contracts or Project Management experience

Leadership capability

Communication skills

Education

Relevant professional or technical qualifications

Job description

About the role

Job Title: Contracts Manager

Location: Flexible base: Leeds / Warrington / Derby (with regular site presence across the UK)

Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac

Are you an experienced Contracts Manager looking to take ownership of complex, high-value projects and make a real impact on safety, sustainability and delivery excellence? Join Balfour Beatty - Balvac, our specialist strengthening, repair and refurbishment business, where you'll play a pivotal role in delivering multiple projects across the UK while building long‑term client relationships.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for the end‑to‑end delivery of multiple projects, from work‑winning through to completion. You'll balance commercial responsibility, operational leadership and customer focus, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards.

This role is office‑based from Leeds, Warrington or Derby, with regular time spent on site depending on project needs.

What you'll be doing

• Managing the delivery and performance of multiple projects, including full P&L responsibility
• Leading safety with passion and credibility, driving our Zero Harm culture
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships, managing change and expectations throughout delivery
• Ensuring compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, policies and governance
• Managing external consultants, subcontractors and supply chain partners
• Driving operational excellence through planning, risk management, project controls and Lean principles
• Championing sustainability, including waste, energy and water efficiency
• Using BIM, Lean Visual Management and digital tools to optimise delivery and safety
• Providing clear, robust reporting on progress, risk and performance to senior stakeholders
• Supporting repeat business and long‑term client partnerships through excellent delivery

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience in Contracts or Project Management within the construction sector
• Strong leadership capability with the confidence to influence, motivate and lead teams
• Excellent communication and relationship‑management skills
• Sound commercial and financial awareness
• Experience (or strong understanding) of Lean construction principles
• Knowledge of contract conditions and change control processes
• A valid CSCS card
• Relevant professional or technical qualifications (desirable)

Why Join Balvac?

• Work on technically challenging and varied projects across the UK
• Flexible office base with a mix of office, site and stakeholder engagement
• Be part of a business that genuinely values innovation, customer focus and collaboration
• Strong career development opportunities within Balfour Beatty
• A culture built around safety, sustainability and continuous improvement

If you're ready to lead with impact and deliver excellence on some of the UK's most interesting infrastructure and structural engineering projects, we'd love to hear from you.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it's sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

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

Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.

Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.

Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.

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 the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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/