Senior Project Manager OHL - UK Flexible - BBUK09589

Balfour Beatty plc; Derby; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc seeks a Senior Project Manager for their expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team. This role is crucial for overseeing overhead line projects, demanding strong managerial and commercial skills. Join a company committed to delivering impactful infrastructure projects and fostering a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Share plan

Pension

Recognition scheme

Employee assistance programme

Generous annual leave

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience of Management and Delivery of Overhead Line, Cabling or Substation schemes up to 400kV preferable.
• Proven track record in tendering and managing complex projects, including sub-contractors.
• Commercial awareness with knowledge of both budgetary and Financial control.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality and safety standards are met.
• Manage, mentor, and empower the project team.
• Control costs and keep projects within budget.

Skills

Project delivery experience

Strong communication skills

Commercial acumen

People management

Job description

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About The Role

Balfour Beatty has a fantastic opportunity for a

About The Role

Balfour Beatty has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Manager OHL to join their rapidly expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team working on projects across the UK. The successful individual will have experience of working on overhead line projects.

With the Power business in a key stage of growth, there is plenty of scope for development in this role and it would suit someone with ambition and drive to grow with the business.

What you'll be doing

To make a real impact as a Senior Project Manager with us, you’ll need:

• Project delivery experience to make sure we meet high quality and safety standards
• Experience in Power/ Utilities within large infrastructure projects
• Strong communication skills to manage, mentor and empower your team
• The confidence and credibility to liaise with business leaders
• Commercial acumen to control costs and keep projects in budget
• To understand standard forms of contracts and performance evaluation techniques.
  
  

Who we're looking for

You Will Have The Following

• Experience of Management and Delivery of Overhead Line, Cabling or Substation schemes up to 400kV preferable.
• Strong People Management
• Proven track record in tendering and managing complex projects, including sub-contractors
• Commercial awareness with knowledge of both budgetary and Financial control
  
  

If you’re inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Senior Project Manager. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you’ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. Apply now

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

ur 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 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/

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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