About the role
Balfour Beatty – MEH Alliance | Hinkley Point C
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group, and we are proud to be part of the MEH Alliance delivering the Hinkley Point C project—one of the UK’s most significant energy infrastructure programmes.
We are now seeking a Head of Mobilisation to play a critical leadership role in delivering workforce capability at scale across this complex, high-profile project.
As Head of Mobilisation, you will lead the end-to-end mobilisation operation across the MEH Programme, ensuring the right people are available, mobilised, and deployed at the right time to support programme delivery.
This is a programme-critical leadership role, driving operational excellence across mobilisation, supply pipeline management, and workforce deployment, while working closely with strategic resourcing and programme delivery teams.
What you'll be doing
- Lead and develop a scalable mobilisation operating model to support programme growth
- Drive operational discipline, visibility, and accountability across mobilisation activities
- Oversee supply and pipeline management, ensuring efficient progression of resource demand
- Coordinate mobilisation activity across partner organisations and recruitment teams
- Manage deployment planning and workforce coordination to align with project priorities
- Monitor mobilisation performance, identifying risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities
- Lead operational governance, reporting, and performance reviews against agreed SLAs
- Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders across the MEH Alliance to ensure delivery focus
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for a confident and experienced operational leader who thrives in a fast-paced, complex environment.
You will bring:
- Proven experience in mobilisation, workforce operations, or large-scale programme delivery
- Strong leadership capability with experience managing operational teams
- Excellent stakeholder management and coordination skills
- A structured, process-driven approach with strong reporting discipline
- Confidence to challenge, escalate, and drive accountability where required
- The ability to operate effectively at pace while maintaining control and clarity
- Able to obtain a security clearance
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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
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.
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.
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Job Reference: BBUK19860
