About The Role
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Location – Fort Augustus – Isle of Skye
By joining our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Logistics Manager you will take full responsibility for overseeing and managing project logistics while supporting Project Managers with the logistical coordination necessary to deliver sections of a larger-scale project.
You Will
- Provide leadership, control, and management of all project logistics requirements.
- Manage contractors and suppliers, ensuring their seamless integration into the project to effectively deliver and oversee all site logistics.
- Ensure that customer specifications, including safety, quality, and timelines, are met, while addressing all risks and ensuring complete fulfilment of project objectives
What you'll be doing
- Overall responsibility for the successful management of the project logistics required to support the day to day delivery of construction activities across the project including Traffic Movement and the Scheduling of Teams under your direct control
- Set in place process and procedures for the management of logistic items including; Welfare facilities, consumables, plant and equipment and the management of these process and procedures including KPI reporting
- Awareness of budget, cost control and cost recovery, ensuring that expenditure is in line with the contract budget and that resources are utilised efficiently
- Procurement of multiple packages to meet logistical requirements including negotiating deals with supply chain partners
- Planning of all logistical activities over project life cycle
- Management of the mobilisation and demobilisation of multiple welfare facilities at project construction compounds including procurement and programming of utility service connection
- Liaison with multiple site teams to understand requirements and putting solutions in place including liaison with Project Co-Ordinators managing Site Security, traffic management and emergency services
- Stakeholder engagement & management including Local Highway Authorities and Port Authorities
- Organising & Updating traffic management plans
- Ensure all team members are fully inducted and carry out role specific requirements, identifying opportunities for improvement
Who we're looking for
Essential Qualities And Experience
- Proven track record in managing logistical and operational delivery within a
construction environment.
- Experience working across a variety of project types.
- Clear ability to communicate and enforce safe systems of work and experience
in implementing system improvements effectively.
- Capable of taking ownership of tasks, clearly communicating outcomes, and
encouraging team members to do the same while ensuring tasks are carried
out efficiently and key messages are cascaded effectively.
- Ability to perform efficiently under pressure and meet deadlines, with a flexible
approach to managing a variable and demanding workload.
- Team player and effective team leader with the ability to work both
independently and competently without supervision.
- Confident decision-maker who considers available options and adapts
solutions when dealing with issues.
- Excellent problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset.
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,
- 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
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:
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