Lead UK Transmission Steelwork Projects

Balfour Beatty plc; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working up to 40% remote

25 days annual leave

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc in the UK seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, customer-facing steelwork and transmission projects across multiple sites.

You will own portfolio delivery, manage safety, quality, cost and timelines, line-manage PMs, and drive improvements across the delivery chain from fabrication to site handover.

Join a team focused on safe, efficient delivery with strong client relationships and continuous improvement, in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• A substantial track record of leading complex, customer-facing projects, programmes or portfolios in steel fabrication, power transmission, construction, infrastructure, manufacturing or a comparable engineered environment.
• Experience line-managing and developing project management teams, including remote and hybrid teams, and balancing resources across competing priorities.
• Strong client and stakeholder management skills, including leading governance reviews, negotiating outcomes and handling senior-level escalations.
• A practical understanding of contracts, change control, commercial risk, cost control and forecasting, backed by strong programme, project-control and reporting disciplines.
• The ability to coordinate multidisciplinary delivery, with a sound understanding of safety, environmental, quality and compliance responsibilities in an operational manufacturing or comparable environment.
• Experience implementing business systems or operational process change, from defining requirements and testing through to training, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Strong knowledge of materials management, particularly goods-in and goods-out, identification and traceability, inspection status, stock accuracy, certification and despatch.
• Confidence using Microsoft 365 and relevant planning, ERP/MRP, document-control, materials, quality and reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio delivery: take senior accountability for safety, quality, programme, cost and customer outcomes across multiple projects and work packages, from mobilisation through to handover and commercial close-out.
• Lead customer relationships: act as the senior point of contact for internal and external clients, building clear communication, managing expectations and resolving escalated issues.
• Develop your team: line-manage, coach and support Assistant Project Managers, Package Managers and Project Coordinators, setting clear priorities and aligning resources with delivery needs.
• Connect the full delivery chain: coordinate engineering, procurement, materials management, fabrication, galvanising, quality, logistics and site teams to meet customer milestones.
• Keep delivery commercially sound: oversee project controls, forecasting, contractual obligations, notices and change control, managing risks and opportunities while protecting cash, margin and contractual entitlement.
• Drive better ways of working: sponsor systems and process improvements, particularly goods-in and goods-out controls, material traceability, stock accuracy, certification and despatch, with effective links to planning and ERP/MRP systems.
• Champion safe, responsible delivery: maintain a focus on Zero Harm, environmental performance, compliance and continuous improvement, supporting Balfour Beatty’s values and sustainability objectives.
• Inform decisions and future opportunities: provide clear, reliable portfolio reporting, capture lessons learned and contribute delivery expertise to bids and pre-contract planning.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Contract management

ERP/MRP systems

Materials management

Line management

Planning software

Microsoft 365

Education

Engineering background

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Planning software

Microsoft 365

Job description

Balfour Beatty plc in the UK seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, customer-facing steelwork and transmission projects across multiple sites.

You will own portfolio delivery, manage safety, quality, cost and timelines, line-manage PMs, and drive improvements across the delivery chain from fabrication to site handover.

Join a team focused on safe, efficient delivery with strong client relationships and continuous improvement, in a hybrid work environment.