Site Manager - Peterborough

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Job summary

Join a leading company as a Site Manager, overseeing vital water infrastructure projects. You will lead teams, ensure compliance with industry standards, and drive operational excellence. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact in the water sector while enjoying a flexible work environment and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Smart working flexibility

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience managing subcontractors and site teams.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, quality, and environmental regulations.
• Proven track record in delivering projects on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Oversee projects from inception to completion ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Manage site teams and subcontractors to drive operational excellence.
• Deliver projects within budget and timelines while managing risks.

Skills

Commercial awareness

SHEQ knowledge

Leadership

Education

Relevant CSCS management card

SEATS or equivalent training

Job description

Job Description

About the role

Site Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Join a powerhouse collaboration driving the future of water infrastructure!

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies—Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO—delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

We’re seeking a Site Manager to lead the way.

In this role, you’ll oversee projects from inception to completion, ensuring safe, high-quality, and efficient delivery. You’ll manage supervisors, delivery teams, and subcontractors on-site, optimising resources to meet budgets and programme deadlines.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Implementing and monitoring health, safety, quality, and environmental (SHEQ) standards to ensure compliance with water industry regulations.
• Leading and managing site-based teams and subcontractors to drive operational excellence.
• Delivering projects within budget and agreed timelines while proactively managing risks and programme adjustments.
• Contributing to P6 planning during the design stage and ensuring site lookaheads maximise efficiency.
• Collaborating on the Construction Phase Plan using digital platforms to streamline operations.
• Reviewing and ensuring compliance with contract documentation.
• Providing accurate and timely weekly and monthly SHEQ reports.

Who we're looking for

What we are looking for:

• Relevant CSCS management card.
• SEATS (Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme) or an equivalent internal course.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
• In-depth knowledge of SHEQ, industry regulations, and legal requirements.
• Proven experience managing subcontractors, supervisors, and on-site teams.

This is more than just a job—it’s a career-defining opportunity to be at the forefront of industry change.

If you’re a proactive leader ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you!

Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.

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 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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that and are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone and Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Forum and the Association for Black and Minority 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 . 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 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 an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]