About the role
Location: Southampton
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Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for a Project Manager to join our Southampton team and lead the delivery of a diverse range of highways and civil engineering projects.
Working within our Capital Delivery Team, you'll manage projects from planning through to completion, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently, on programme and within budget. Project types include surfacing, drainage, structures, public realm improvements, traffic management, street lighting, ITS and general highways infrastructure.
What you'll be doing
- Managing the successful delivery of highways projects across Southampton.
- Leading project teams, subcontractors and supply chain partners.
- Building strong relationships with customers and stakeholders.
- Managing programme, cost, quality, risk and change control.
- Ensuring compliance with Balfour Beatty processes, governance and safety standards.
- Driving continuous improvement, sustainability and operational excellence.
- Providing clear project reporting and updates to senior management.
Who we're looking for
- Experience delivering highways or civil engineering projects.
- Proven project management experience within highways maintenance or infrastructure.
- Strong leadership, planning and stakeholder management skills.
- Commercial and financial awareness.
- Experience working with local authorities or public sector clients.
- Strong communication and organisational skills.
- CSCS Card and NRSWA Supervisor qualification.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- APM PMQ or equivalent project management qualification.
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, 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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20237
