Balfour Beatty plc

Opportunities Manager - Sizewell C

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Location
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/9/2025
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About The Role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Opportunities Manager.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2 gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions. Our proposal is to build a new nuclear power station on the East Suffolk coast which will supply 6 million homes with low-carbon electricity.

This role will be hybrid with a minimum of 1-2 days at Aztec West in Bristol

What you'll be doing

You will be responsible of a package of opportunities which are critical for the delivery of the project. Such opportunities cover a large range of discipline (engineering, construction, processes, IT, contract management...) and you will be responsible for the end-to-end process.

  • You will interact with relevant internal and external stakeholders to identify and analyse the opportunities. You will be responsible of driving the decision-making process, implementing decisions to the project baseline up to closure and benefits quantification.
  • Proactively lead the opportunity management process (incl. identification, option assessment (quality/time/cost), decision making) up to implementation and closure
  • Anticipate, manage and resolve issues working closely with relevant stakeholders
  • Take cognisance of project constraints and status (e.g. design maturity, procurement and construction schedules, safety case...) throughout management of opportunities
  • Liaise with relevant SME to strengthen opportunities assessment
  • These accountabilities are not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and activities that the job holder may be required to undertake

Who we're looking for

  • Track record of delivering construction projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment whilst ensuring high levels of safety, security and environmental responsibility, ideally within the Nuclear Energy sector or similar regulated environment.
  • Demonstrate success in managing / developing: ▪ Engineering design, contract and field execution strategies for project delivery ▪ Multi-discipline EPCM projects ▪ On-site construction sequence
  • Experience of successfully engaging groups of stakeholders
  • Able to demonstrate strong management skills including project management, financial management, change management and facilitation.
  • Proficient in the use of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
  • Good presentation, influencing and facilitation skills.
  • Able to obtain a security clearance.

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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
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