Senior Pre Construction Manager - Derby

Balfour Beatty; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm in the UK is seeking a Pre-Construction Manager to lead projects through the Early Contractor Involvement and pre-construction stages. The role involves managing customer engagement and coordinating team deliverables. Candidates should have an infrastructure background with strong organizational and stakeholder management skills. The position offers competitive salary, hybrid working, and numerous professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Hybrid working

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company car

Broad range of learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to manage a broad range of stakeholders.
• Experience in technical civil or electrical engineering.
• Capability to implement strategies to overcome technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day customer engagement on assigned projects.
• Guide and motivate the pre-construction/ECI team.
• Support workload planning for feasibility and pre-construction.

Skills

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Technical civil engineering

Collaboration

Education

Infrastructure background

Job description

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About the role

Power T&D is entering a period of major growth, with several significant projects moving through Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and pre-construction stages. These stages are critical, linking business development to delivery and shaping every aspect of the construction phase.

The Pre-Construction Manager will lead projects from ECI through detailed design to site start, ensuring smooth progression through the Gated Lifecycle governance process. This includes managing knowledge transfer, risks, and the development of robust proposals.

The role newly established focuses on delivering successful ECI and Stage One contracts for key clients such as SSEN Transmission and National Grid Electricity Transmission. It also requires strong collaboration across the wider Power T&D business to share expertise, enhance learning, and help set market-leading standards.

What you'll be doing

• Lead day-to-day customer engagement on assigned projects, working alongside the operational lead.
• Guide and motivate the pre-construction/ECI team, coordinating all deliverables from feasibility through to final submission.
• Help shape win strategies to progress projects successfully from feasibility/ECI to pre-construction and main works award.
• Collaborate closely with the proposals team to ensure high-quality feasibility and delivery agreement submissions.
• Clearly communicate strategy and objectives to the wider pre-construction/ECI team.
• Work with Design Leads to ensure CDM 2015 Principal Designer duties are met by either the customer or Balfour Beatty.
• Manage design meetings and consultant outputs effectively.
• Champion health and safety by design and promote early risk reduction.
• Ensure Balfour Beatty standards are consistently applied and support best-practice sharing.
• Strengthen collaboration across Power T&D, UKCS and the wider BB Group to enhance processes and knowledge.
• Produce monthly reports and communicate key messages to stakeholders.
• Support workload planning to ensure resource needs for feasibility and pre-construction are understood.
• Promote innovation across feasibility and pre-construction activities.
• Support adoption of BIM Level 2, 3D design and CGI modelling.
• Encourage design-out-defects approaches and embed lessons-learned processes.
• Develop a robust "fit-to-start" process for projects entering construction.
• Assist handover and mobilisation into the construction phase.
• Support delivery of company/regional initiatives such as 25 by 2025 and MyC .
• Mentor and develop team members, particularly in pre-construction skills.
• Ensure clients are supported with estimating, planning and regulatory submissions, carrying lessons learned into future projects.

Who we're looking for

• The role requires an individual who is organised, able to manage a broad range of stakeholders and implement strategies to overcome technical challenges;
• They will have the ability to bring the best out of the pre-construction team while drawing on the capability of other colleagues in the region and the wider business;
• The individual will be from an infrastructure background; with key attributes of technical civil engineering and/or electrical engineering capability combined with a collaborative mindset;
• The individual will be motivated by working in an environment with highly skilled colleagues where continuous improvement and teamwork are part of business as usual

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.

As a business Balfour Beatty are committed to supporting our staff in attaining and maintaining their chosen professional accreditation., along with reimbursing annual Professional membership fees.

• Competitive Salary
• 37.5 hours Monday to Friday
• Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
• Company car
• Hybrid working
• 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

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 Beatty's 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 world's 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 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 on our website.