Balfour Beatty plc
Assistant Project Manager
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About The Role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join our team on the Highways Connect Plus Services Scheme, this role will be based in and around the M25 area.
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work, and play.
We provide high-quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently, and to a high standard.
What you'll be doing
- Supports strong collaborative relationships with the project management team, and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
- Supports compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing timely and accurate reports, and creating and maintaining specified records including change management.
- Support the Design, agree, and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.
- Support projects throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, and construction informing investment proposals for our clients.
- Support the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.
- Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree, and implement solutions to overcome these.
- Support the performance of Framework Contractors and Designers as appropriate, ensuring that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for health and safety management, time and cost; and taking appropriate remedial action where necessary.
- Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.
- Work closely with the Construction/Supervisor team to ensure permits, certificates, and site reporting are managed correctly and align to project needs.
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Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Experience of working in teams to successfully develop multiple projects concurrently.
- A strong collaborator, with integrity and experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders gaining the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.
- Commercially focused, to drive project performance and ability to manage contracts to deliver outcomes.
- High resilience, to deal constructively with conflicting priorities and setbacks.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies and solutions.
- Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with Framework Contractors, Designers, and internal partners.
Personal Attributes
- Proactive problem-solving.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong safety management culture.
- Ability to prioritise and self-manage.
- Ability to develop relationships and engender trust.
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:
- 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.
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About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions, and add social value to the communities within which we work.
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.
We are 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: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - 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.
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