Project Manager - OHL

York, England, United Kingdom

4/16/2025

About the role

Are you an experienced OHL Project Manager looking for your next challenge? Join Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D) team to lead the successful delivery of our ever growing orderbook.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning, managing, and delivering the project safely, sustainably, and to the highest standards in programme, cost, and quality. You will have overall accountability for project success, ensuring smooth execution from design to handover.

What you'll be doing

• Hold periodic project reviews and update the Digital Briefcase
• Ability to interrogate designs and challenge inputs and deliverables
• Ensure reports provide relevant information to enable decisions to be made
  which are informed, cost effective and in line with overall business strategy
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in
  legislation
• Accountable for the safety and welfare of the general public, employees and
  supply chain
• Carry out Safety & Environmental Tours/promote observation and safety
  initiatives
• Monitor effectiveness of the H&S Management System and implement
  improvement actions
• Develop, implement and update resource allocations plans and raise
  appropriate requests
• 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
• Lead risk/opportunity reviews, ownership of the Risk Register and
  recommend/implement changes
• Manage subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and
  progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that
  contractual arrangements are achieved
• Ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project plans,
  such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled
  deadlines
• Develop, implement, review and periodically update resource loaded
  schedules
• Ensure team adopt productivity and project controls techniques
• Monitor progress and implement Short Interval Control processes/hold weekly
  meeting
• Ensure production of operational milestones reflect master schedule and
  customer expectations
• Ensure that expenditure is in line with the budget and that resources are
  utilised efficiently to ensure cost control

Who we're looking for

• Hold a UK Driving Licence 
• Previous experience working as a Project Manager 
• Member of a professional management body is desirable but not essential 

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’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]