Balfour Beatty plc

Assistant Cost Supervisor - BBUK14009

Company
Location
Grays, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/24/2025
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About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for an Assistant Cost Supervisor to join our Lower Thames Crossing project.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

  • Accurate costing and control of project expenditure, reflected in the timely production of monthly project cost reports.
  • Interfaces directly with the project staff to ensure projects receive adequate support and guidance from the Site support function.
  • Process plant transactions, catalogue call offs, material receipts/GRN processing, invoice query resolution
  • Ensure that all transactions are posted in a timely manner
  • Process payroll transactions for blue collar workers
  • Assist with resolution of payroll queries
  • Calculating project accruals for the CVR
  • Ensure that site support processes are consistently and rigorously applied across all projects in line with company policies.

Who we're looking for

  • Experience of performing a site admin role producing and reporting project cost either on a large site or across multiple sites in a construction
  • Ability to work with people at various levels both internally within Balfour Beatty and externally and apply and comply with the Balfour Beatty site support procedures is essential.
  • Experience receipting, invoice processing, payroll and project costing
  • Working knowledge of Oracle (or equivalent ERP cost management module) and construction/engineering working rule agreements is desirable.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

  • An attractive / negotiated salary
  • Hybrid working available
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Pension savings schemes
  • A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
  • Refer a friend bonus scheme
  • Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

  • 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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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

We are 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]
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