Project Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Watford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working with up to 40% remote

25 days annual leave

Pension and share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc, via Connect Plus Services (CPS), seeks a Project Manager to lead highway and technology schemes on the M25 network from feasibility to handover. You will manage multidiscipline teams, coordinate contractors and designers, and drive performance across safety, cost and schedule.

Travel to sites across the network and occasional night shifts are expected. The role offers hybrid working, exposure to high-profile infrastructure, and opportunities to influence large-scale

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary project teams on highway/construction schemes.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement across internal/external groups.
• Commercial focus with ability to manage contracts and drive project performance.
• Resilience to handle conflicting priorities and delivery pressures.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills to articulate strategies and solutions.
• Experience maintaining and developing detailed project plans with contractors/ designers.
• Mentoring/coaching to develop junior project management talent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver project objectives across Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People.
• Lead lifecycle programs from feasibility through handover, including cost profiling and risk mitigation.
• Manage NEC contracts and coordinate sub-contractors and designers.
• Ensure permits, certificates and site reporting align with project needs and client expectations.
• Travel to other offices/depots as required; night-site visits may be needed.
• Support sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity initiatives.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Risk management

Cost control

Planning & scheduling

NEC contracts

Travel willingness

Night shift availability

Team mentoring

Education

BSc/MSc in management/construction

APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ

CSCS and SMSTS or equivalent

Job description

About The Role

Project Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Location: South Mimms

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project.

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment, alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.

If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.

What you'll be doing

The Project Manager delivers project objectives with respect to the six key areas of performance: Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People.

We are looking for a dynamic and self-motivated individual with a strong project background to join this fast-paced team to deliver the more complex highways and technology schemes throughout their whole project lifecycle. Schemes range in value from £100k to £3m+ and include safety schemes, environmental improvements, technology schemes, remedial works and junction improvement schemes.

Accountabilities

• Stakeholder Management - Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, SPM, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
• Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing timely and accurate reports, and creating and maintaining specified records including change management.
• Design, agree and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.
• Lead and oversee programmes throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, construction and handover. Informing investment proposals for our clients at each stage
• Contribute to the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Commission and manage the performance of Sub Contractors and Designers as appropriate, ensuring that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for health and safety management, time and cost; and taking appropriate remedial action where necessary.
• Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.
• Work closely with the Construction/Supervisor team to ensure permits, certificates and site reporting are managed correctly and align to project needs
• Managing NEC Contracts Options as Project Manager
• Working arrangements (shift work, need for travel etc)
• Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as and when required
• Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift)

Who we're looking for

The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential

• Experience of managing project teams to successfully develop of multiple projects concurrently.
• A strong collaborator, with integrity and experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes gaining the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.
• Commercially focused, to drive project performance and ability to manage contracts to deliver outcomes
• High resilience, to deal constructively with conflicting priorities and setbacks.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies and solutions.
• Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with Sub Contractors, Designers and internal partners.
• Demonstrate experience as mentor and/or coach to develop project management talent, skills and competence in junior team members
• Commercially astute
• Good knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics
• Record of a solution-based approach to problem solving
• Ability to see the business vision and inspire this shared vision amongst the team.

Preferable Qualifications

• Member of a professional management body i.e. APM
• Formal qualification (BSc/MSc) in management/construction or experience equivalent.
• APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ
• CSCS and SMSTS or Equivalent
• Proficient on Office 365

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 national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

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

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion 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 identity 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 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. 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]