Senior Project Manager - Structures

Balfour Beatty plc; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Balfour Beatty as a Senior Project Manager - Structures and lead major infrastructure projects within a supportive and expert team. You'll be responsible for the end-to-end management of projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and health and safety standards while fostering relationships with stakeholders. Enjoy a range of benefits and the opportunity to make a significant impact on communities through your work.

Benefits

25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Pension and share incentive plan

Family friendly policies

Smart working with flexibility

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing major highways structures projects.
• Full UK Driving Licence is required.
• Knowledge of health and safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage the planning and delivery of specific project activities.
• Ensure delivery to programme and budget.
• Develop strategic links with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree in Project Management or related field

Job description

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About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Living Places team as a Senior Project Manager - Structures, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

The successful Senior Project Manager will be responsible for the delivery of major Structures schemes within the structures maintenance portfolio.

What you'll be doing

• End to end management of the planning and delivery of specific project activities.
• Responsible for ensuring delivery to programme (SPI 8) and budget.
• Develop business plans and strategies in order to meet customer needs and aspirations and effectively deliver.
• Ensure that the processes and plans are followed to ensure that all service agreements with the client and key performance indicators are fully achieved.
• Working closely with internal teams and stakeholders to manage programme milestones and ensure timescales are achieved.
• Monitor, plan and control financial expenditure such that financial targets for profit and margin are fully met.
• Develop and manage strategic links and relationships with customers and other key stakeholders involved in the projects, in order to fully understand their requirements and resolve issues and problems in a timely manner.
• Ensure that procedures are followed to monitor and ensure full adherence to relevant Health and Safety environment legislation, convention and business standards and achieve best practice within industry.

Who we're looking for

• A person whose attitudes, conduct and demeanour reflects the BB values.
• A strong people manager, who is focused and has experience in getting the best out of people.
• A person who can work on own initiative and schedule workload to meet priorities.
• A person who is accustomed to working with Senior Management.
• Experienced professional with extensive knowledge of Highways management and operations.
• Experienced in managing major highways structures projects.
• Display knowledge of managing tender processes and possess the skills.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

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?

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 Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

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, visitwww.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]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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