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Balfour Beatty plc

Preconstruction Manager

CompanyBalfour Beatty plc
LocationWarrington, England, United Kingdom
Posted At3/16/2026

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Occupation Type
Production managers and directors in construction
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£53,400 (£27.38 per hour)
Occupation rate applies

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Description
About The Role

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group, delivering complex and innovative projects that shape communities and improve lives. We are currently seeking an experienced Pre-Construction Manager to join our Regional Build team in Warrington, playing a key role in securing and shaping future work across the North West.

As Pre-Construction Manager, you will lead the pre-construction phase of bids and negotiated opportunities, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant, competitive, and aligned with client objectives. Working collaboratively with estimating, design, planning, commercial, and delivery teams, you will help transform early-stage opportunities into successful, well-planned projects.

What you'll be doing

As a Pre-Construction Manager You Will

  • Lead and manage the full pre-construction process from opportunity identification through to contract award
  • Develop and manage bid programmes, ensuring timely and high-quality submissions
  • Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams including estimating, design, planning, commercial and supply chain partners
  • Engage with clients and consultants to shape solutions and build strong relationships
  • Manage risk and opportunity, ensuring robust strategies are developed and clearly communicated
  • Lead value engineering, buildability reviews, and early contractor involvement (ECI) activities
  • Ensure all pre-construction activities comply with Balfour Beatty governance, safety, quality, and sustainability standards
  • Support seamless handover from pre-construction to delivery teams

  • Who we're looking for

    You Will Have The Following

    • Proven experience in a pre-construction, bid management, or project management role within the construction industry
    • Strong knowledge of UK construction procurement routes (e.g. two-stage, frameworks, negotiated work)
    • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
    • Ability to lead, influence, and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams
    • Commercially astute with strong programme and risk management capability
    • Experience working on regional build or similar projects is desirable

    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

    Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

    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.balfourbeat
    ty.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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com