Project Manager

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

Job summary

A leading specialist contractor in the UK is looking for an experienced Project Manager to oversee challenging projects from start to finish. The role demands strong leadership skills and an ability to manage costs and quality while ensuring safety excellence. Candidates must possess a professional qualification and experience in construction project management. This position offers opportunities for career growth and a focus on sustainability in project delivery.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth

Support for professional development

Values-driven culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management within construction or civil engineering.
• Confident leader with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercially aware, with experience managing costs and margins.
• Passionate about safety, quality and continuous improvement.
• CSCS card essential.
• Experience or training in Lean Construction is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate project teams and supply chain partners.
• Own project P&L and drive commercial performance.
• Champion Zero Harm and embed a culture of safety excellence.
• Manage customer relationships and decision-making.
• Deliver sustainability objectives.
• Implement robust planning and project controls.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Cost management

Safety awareness

Education

Professional qualification (e.g. APMP)

Technical qualification

Job description

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About the role

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Derby (Site & Office based)

Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac

About the role

Are you a Project Manager who thrives on delivering technically complex projects and leading high-performing teams?

Join Balfour Beatty Balvac, the UK's leading specialist contractor for structural strengthening, repair and refurbishment-and help us deliver construction excellence nationwide.

What you'll be doing

As a Project Manager with Balvac, you'll take full ownership of projects from start to finish-balancing safety, quality, time and cost while building strong customer relationships.

• Lead and motivate project teams and supply chain partners to deliver to programme, budget and quality targets
• Own project P&L and drive commercial performance
• Champion Zero Harm, embedding a culture of safety excellence on every project
• Manage customer relationships, change control and decision-making to exceed expectations
• Deliver sustainability objectives, including waste, energy and water efficiency
• Implement robust planning, risk, change and project controls
• Apply Lean Construction principles and visual management to improve productivity and safety
• Use BIM / digital tools to optimise delivery and collaboration
• Report clearly on progress, risks and opportunities to senior stakeholders

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience in project management within construction or civil engineering
• Confident leader with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Commercially aware, with experience managing costs and margins
• Passionate about safety, quality and continuous improvement
• CSCS card essential
• Professional qualification (e.g. APMP) and technical qualification desirable
• Experience or training in Lean Construction is an advantage

Why join Balvac?

• Work on challenging, high-profile specialist projects across the UK
• Be part of Balfour Beatty, a company known for innovation, safety and career development
• Clear opportunities to grow, develop and progress your career
• A values-driven culture focused on Customer Focus, Innovation and Operational Excellence

If you're ready to lead complex projects and make a real impact in specialist civil engineering, we'd love to hear from you.

Location & working style

• Based from Warrington, with a mix of site and office working
• Projects primarily across the North West, with some wider UK travel as required

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.

For further information about Balfour Beatty please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers

You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

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/