Area Operations Lead - Highways
Company
Location
Telford, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/24/2025
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Description
About The Role
Are you ready to take the next step in your highways career?
Balfour Beatty is looking for a dynamic and driven Area Operations Lead to manage the delivery of reactive and revenue-based highways works for our long-standing partnership with Telford and Wrekin Council. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a £12 million portfolio and shape the future of local infrastructure.
This isn’t just another operations role — it’s a career-defining opportunity. You’ll be at the forefront of delivering essential highways services, leading a skilled team, and working closely with both the client and supply chain to drive innovation, efficiency, and quality.
Whether you're an experienced highways professional looking to step into a senior leadership role, or a current manager ready to expand your portfolio and influence, this role offers the platform to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact.
What you'll be doing
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?
Benefits
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:
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]
Are you ready to take the next step in your highways career?
Balfour Beatty is looking for a dynamic and driven Area Operations Lead to manage the delivery of reactive and revenue-based highways works for our long-standing partnership with Telford and Wrekin Council. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a £12 million portfolio and shape the future of local infrastructure.
This isn’t just another operations role — it’s a career-defining opportunity. You’ll be at the forefront of delivering essential highways services, leading a skilled team, and working closely with both the client and supply chain to drive innovation, efficiency, and quality.
Whether you're an experienced highways professional looking to step into a senior leadership role, or a current manager ready to expand your portfolio and influence, this role offers the platform to grow, lead, and make a lasting impact.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of reactive and revenue highways works
- Manage a £12m annual budget and ensure efficient resource planning
- Build strong relationships with the client and key stakeholders
- Drive performance, safety, and quality across all operations
- Support out-of-hours and winter maintenance activities
- Mentor and develop your team, fostering a culture of accountability and pride
- Proven experience in highways or civil engineering operations
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- A passion for delivering high-quality, customer-focused services
- Commercial awareness and budget management experience
- A collaborative mindset and commitment to continuous improvement
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?
Benefits
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…
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]
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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