Construction Manager

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

7/31/2025

About The Role

🚧 Construction Manager / Experienced Site Manager (Cabling – Power T&D)

📍 Location: Ipswich

🏗️ Project: BTNO – Balfour Beatty Power T&D Team

📅 Start Date: ASAP

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) business is delivering critical infrastructure across the UK – and we’re growing. We’re looking for an experienced Construction Manager / Site Manager to join our Ipswich-based team, supporting the high-profile BTNO Project.

This is a key role requiring strong leadership, technical understanding, and a safety-first mindset in managing cabling installation works on a major power infrastructure project.

🔧 Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Planning, managing, and delivering site-based construction activities – safely and sustainably
• Driving works to meet programme deadlines, cost targets, and quality standards
• Leading site teams, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure excellence in delivery
• Managing stakeholder and client relationships to maintain trust and transparency
• Ensuring all personnel, systems, and resources are in place for successful execution
• Creating and nurturing a positive site culture where safety and teamwork thrive
• Continually reviewing performance and implementing improvements
• Working closely with project leadership to meet customer requirements and project constraints across time, cost, quality, risk, and scope
  
  

What you'll be doing

• Hold periodic project reviews (PRM) and update the Digital Briefcase in accordance with GBL
• Ensure the team maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholders
• Knowledge and experience of discipline
• Implement technical information and drawings into delivery
• Understand and specify plant and equipment requirements
• Numerical skills
• Complete buildability assessments from first-hand experience
• Initiates good scope/information/configuration management principles
• Ensure reports provide relevant information which enable decisions to be made which are informed, cost effective and in line with overall strategy
• Ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in legislation
• Responsible for the safety and welfare of the general public, employees and supply chain
• Carry out periodic Safety & Environmental Tours/promote observation and safety initiatives
• Monitor effectiveness of the H&S Management System and implement improvement solutions
• Delivery and upkeep of welfare requirements
• Write and review RAMS and accepting subcontractor RAMS
• Identifying, raising and reporting risks and hazards
• Ensure sufficiency and competency of workforce
• Reinforce golden rules
• Understand, control and issue safety documentation
• Completion of audits
• Drive behavioral safety and compliance
• Setting people to work
• Plan and ensure delivery to programme
• Check competencies
• Escalate and manage on site issues
• Upskilling others
• Empowerment to stop works
• Deliver a quality product
• Resolve resource issues
• Drive productivity
• Develop, implement and update resource allocations plans (OBS) and raise appropriate requests
• Produce plans for the team to achieve goals/aspirations
• Develop high performing teams, promote a pipeline of talent and assist with internal training through supporting, guiding, motivating and empowering the team. Using the resources available through training, mentoring and performance management.
• Ensure all work is undertaken with a view towards handover and certification
• Accountable for KPI’s in line with project objectives and monitor performance
• Ensure assurance activities (audits) are undertaken and take appropriate action on findings
• Lead working groups and work with OLT on focused improvement areas
• Ownership of Budget for the elements of the project they are accountable for
• Knowledge of commercial impact
• Manage commercial change
• Requestion of plant and materials
• Quantifying materials needed
• Ensure that expenditure is in line with the budget and that resources are utilised efficiently to ensure cost control
• Able to identify elements for cost recovery from others
  
  

Who we're looking for

The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential

• Able to demonstrate a track record of project delivery
• Good understandi
• Experience in implementing safe systems of work
• Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the organisation
• Effective team management skills which empower, influence & inspire others to build effective teams. Providing mentoring and support to members of the team where required
• Commercially astute
• Able to undertake work in high pressure situations
• Good knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics
• Record of a solution-based approach to problem solving
• Ability to see the business vision and inspire this shared vision amongst the team
• Communications – Verbally, Written, Presenting
• Communicate and check understanding of daily briefings
• Two way communication eg brief out weekly safety pack
• Discuss ideas and plans competently and with confidence
• Communicate new concepts and ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Effective personal and social skills
• Awareness and promotion the benefits of diversity and inclusion
• Identify and drive personal development
  
  

The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable

• Experience of working on a variety of project types
• Proficient on O365
• Holds a current driving licence
  
  

The role holder is likely to have one or more of the following:

• CSCS and SMSTS or Equivalent
  
  

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?

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…
  
  

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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]