Project Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Peterhead; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car

Generous bonus

Subsistence Allowances

Site Allowances

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc in the United Kingdom seek a Project Manager to lead the Longside 400kV and 132kV substations project, overseeing design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. You will manage a large engineering team and ensure governance, risk and performance are tightly controlled.

Expect responsibility for alignment with programme, interfaces, and contract requirements, while maintaining a strong focus on safety and delivery standards across the hub.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record delivering complex infrastructure projects in power or HV protec­tion.
• Experience guiding design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Proven ability to lead large multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the project-management framework for Longside 400kV and 132kV substations and ensure governance alignment.
• Lead periodic project reviews and provide evidence-based reporting to leadership.
• Maintain auditable records across all work packages and decisions.
• Coordinate internal and external reporting to surface issues and actions.
• Define scope, information and interface-management for substations and interfaces.
• Use project data to drive timely, safe, cost-effective decisions.
• Demonstrate zero-harm leadership and compliance with requirements.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Major infrastructure experience

Substation projects

Line-management

Governance & controls

Contractual & commercial awareness

Job description

About The Role

Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Project Manager and be a key part of delivering complex, meaningful, and impactful projects.

As a Project Manager, You Will Be Responsible For

Overall accountability for the safe, successful and integrated project management of the Longside 400kV and 132kV Substations within the Netherton Hub, from design development and procurement through construction, commissioning, handover and close out.

Provide visible leadership to a large, multi-disciplinary Project Engineering group, with direct line‑management responsibility and clear accountability for performance, development, workload, interfaces and delivery standards.

Lead the coordinated management of more than 100 work packages, ensuring scope, design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning interfaces are clearly defined, controlled and aligned to the accepted programme.

Determine and implement the most appropriate means of satisfying Balfour Beatty, customer and project requirements while balancing safety, time, cost, quality, scope, risk, opportunity, resources and whole-project benefits.

Hours of work per week - 45

Location - Peterhead, Aberdeenshire

In return we offer you.

• ompetitive - DOA
• excellent benefits including Site Allowances, Company Car, generous bonus and Subsistence Allowances (Subject to T&C’s of role)

Opportunity to shape what’s next in a pivotal project management role with an industry leader. What you do here as a Project Manager will matter. Not just to the infrastructure and engineering experts it will also matter to your supportive colleagues who’ll value your perspective. Your work will matter to society, as you help us to shape large-scale power engineering projects.

What you'll be doing

• Own the project-management framework for the Longside 400kV and 132kV Substations and ensure delivery remains aligned with project governance, delegated authorities, contract requirements and the Netherton Hub delivery strategy.
• Lead periodic project reviews (PRM), maintain the Digital Briefcase in accordance with GBL and provide clear, evidence-based reporting to the project leadership team.
• Ensure accurate and auditable project records are maintained across all work packages, including decisions, progress, daily records, actions, approvals, changes, assumptions and interface commitments.
• Coordinate internal and external reporting so that emerging issues, decisions and escalations are visible, owned and closed within agreed timescales.
• Establish clear scope, information, configuration and interface-management arrangements for both substations and the associated Netherton Hub interfaces.
• Use reliable project data to make timely decisions that are safe, contractually informed, cost effective and aligned with the overall Longside delivery strategy.
• Demonstrate visible leadership and a relentless focus on Zero Harm across the 400kV and 132kV works, ensuring legal, client and Balfour Beatty requirements are understood and implemented.

Who we're looking for

The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential

• Demonstrable track record of leading delivery on major, complex infrastructure, power transmission or substation projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Experience managing concurrent delivery across multiple high‑voltage systems, work fronts and interfaces, preferably including 400kV and/or 132kV substations.
• Proven line‑management experience with large multi-disciplinary engineering or project teams, including objective setting, workload management, coaching, development and performance management.
• Experience establishing governance and control across a large portfolio of work packages, with clear accountability for scope, interfaces, programme, cost, risk, quality and completion.
• Good working knowledge of standard forms of contract and the ability to apply contractual and commercial awareness to project decisions, change and recovery actions.
• Strong project‑management communication skills, including concise reporting, chairing reviews, influencing senior stakeholders and converting complex issues into clear decisions and actions.
• Experience implementing safe systems of work and providing visible leadership in a live construction and high‑hazard environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with the customer, leadership team, workforce, engineering disciplines, supply chain and other Netherton Hub stakeholders.
• Holds a current UK driving licence

Why work for us

Alongside The Amazing Opportunity, Support And Pride That You Will Gain From Developing Your Career With One Of The World’s Foremost Infrastructure Giants, You Will Also Enjoy

Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs

Wellbeing sessions - non-work-related activities go for a walk, do some house duties etc.

Opportunity to join into the company SIP scheme.

Flexible benefits window Options to purchase additional holidays, bikes, tech vouchers, dental cover, PMI etc.

Reward platform where you can get discounts off shopping, insurance, cars etc.

Hybrid working (where applicable)

Enhanced company sickness scheme

Enhanced company Maternity/Paternity/Shared parental/Adoption schemes

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Broad Range Of Learning Opportunities, Such As Professional Qualifications

Employee assistance programme

Up to 2 days volunteering per year

Company funded social events.

In joining the Power T&D team, you are joining a strong function, where you can join us as the first step on a lengthy career, or simply join us be the best you can be in your role we will support you either way.

We have a BB Academy, which is a great resource to support you with your learning and development.

About Us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beattys 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/