Job Description

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty.

By joining our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Project Manager in our Operations Team, you\'ll work with true experts wholl share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.

Bring us your capability, and well help you take it much, much further.

Based across the UK on our projects you will work on our Large Infrastructure within our Power Transmission and Distribution Projects.

Roles include a generous subsistence package (subject to T&C\'s), Allowances, Pension, and career progression within the industry.

When it comes to developing our people, our Operational Site Management teams are award winning. Joining the team as a Project Manager, you\'ll get to:

• Progress your career in an industry thats enjoying significant investment
• Take pride in adding your talents to our focus on building sustainably Power for the future.
• Benefit from our sheer scale and diversity by progressing quickly and exploring professional passions and established career paths

What you\'ll be doing

As a Project Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Plan, manage and deliver the Project safely and sustainably to programme, cost and quality.
• Have overall accountability for successful project delivery including; planning,

design, delivery, monitoring, commissioning and handover/close out * Providing management and leadership to create an environment where a multi-

disciplinary project team can thrive and succeed to achieve a common goal * Ensure effective management of client and stakeholders

• Deliver the project to budget and programme
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in

legislation * 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 * Manage subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and

progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that
contractual arrangements are achieved * Develop, implement, review and periodically update resource loaded

schedules

Who we\'re looking for

You will have the following:

• Formal qualification in project management or equivalent experience
• CSCS and SMSTS or Equivalent
• Able to demonstrate a track record of project delivery
• In depth understanding and practical experience of standard forms of contracts
• Proficient in commercial/project management communications
• Experience in implementing safe systems of work

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

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.

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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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