About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our
Living Places team as a
Project Manager in Buckinghamshire, you’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you'll be doing
Planning and Allocations of Works:
- Review incoming works to ensure required information is provided (Job Packs, TM Forces etc)
- Detailed validation of incoming works to include an assessment of information to complete the works and specialist materials and plant requirements.
- Liaise with the work originator over any queries.
- Interfacing with other Supervisors and construction teams to maximise opportunities for resource sharing.
Project specific maintenance activities:
- Attend regular stakeholder meetings.
- Site visits and liaison with clients to determine scope of works.
- Communication with residents and members of the alliance team throughout the work delivery.
- management of labour, Plant and Material resources.
- Management of the programme.
Performance Management:
- Productivity reporting and providing information to support managing outputs.
- Provision of mitigations to Performance Manager to support monthly operations reporting.
- Focus on driving improved performance on a daily basis.
- People Management responsibilities, identifying emerging talent and ensuring succession planning is robust.
Financial and Commercial:
- Supporting BBLP commercial team for cost recovery.
- Hot costing to ensure cost centre profitability.
- Embedding the use of IT solutions to ensure accurate information is captured by Operatives and sub contractors.
Client:
- Resolution of queries relating to workstack, planned and completed works.
- Reporting of information as required by the Alliance team.
Who we're looking for
- Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract.
- Detailed knowledge of Street Lighting Maintenance.
- NERS/HERS certificated role.
- Good level of business acumen.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Adaptable to changing situations.
- Commercial Awareness - understanding the cost of doing business, SLAs and KPIs.
- Understanding of works programming.
- Use of IT systems specifically Confirm and Excel.
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?
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 Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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:
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