Project Manager(Project Solutions Manager)

Balfour Beatty plc; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company based in Peterborough is seeking a Project Solutions Manager. You will oversee the initial stages of water and wastewater projects, emphasizing sustainability and innovation. Ideal candidates will have an engineering degree and experience leading multi-disciplinary teams. This role offers flexibility, competitive benefits, and significant impact on water infrastructure.

Benefits

Smart working with up to 40% remote work

25 days paid annual leave

Family-friendly policies including paid parental leave

Pension and recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• A collaborative, can-do attitude with inspirational leadership capabilities.
• Understanding of CDM regulations and health & safety integration into design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the initial stages of water and wastewater treatment projects.
• Drive sustainability and innovation throughout the design lifecycle.
• Foster collaboration with various project teams.

Skills

Strong knowledge of water sector infrastructure

Excellent communication skills

Leadership and mentoring abilities

Education

Degree in engineering or equivalent experience

Job description

About The Role

Project Solutions Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

@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 Project Solutions Manager to lead talented, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions that reduce carbon, increase resilience, and protect the environment.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the initial optioneering stages of water and wastewater treatment projects.
• Develop project engineering plans covering scope, cost, schedule, risk and resources.
• Collaborate with technical experts and suppliers to develop fully integrated, buildable solutions.
• Drive sustainability and innovation across the design lifecycle.
• Ensure designs meet CDM, safety, and operational requirements.
• Foster strong collaboration with project managers, planners, procurement, and construction teams.
• Lead project reviews, manage quality processes, and support continuous improvement.
• Mentor and support your team’s professional development and well-being.

Who we're looking for

What We’re Looking For

• A degree in engineering or equivalent experience (chartered or working toward it preferred).
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and supplier input.
• Strong knowledge of water sector infrastructure and a passion for sustainable design.
• A collaborative, can-do attitude and ability to inspire and lead teams.
• Understanding of CDM regulations and experience embedding H&S into design.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of industry transformation while working with some of the most respected organizations in the sector.

Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape the future of water infrastructure.

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.

Benefits

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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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]