Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering
Construction Manager
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Construction Manager
Construction Manager – Ground Engineering Team (Sizewell C Project)
About the Role
Join our Ground Engineering team as a Construction Manager for Sizewell C—a once-in-a-generation project delivering clean energy to 6 million homes over the next 60 years. Based in Leiston, Suffolk, this 3.2 Gigawatt nuclear power station will provide reliable low-carbon electricity to the Suffolk coast.
The Civil Works Alliance—comprising Sizewell C, Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics, and Laing O’Rourke—is a unique extended delivery enterprise integrating years of experience from major infrastructure programmes worldwide.
Role Purpose: Managing site operations efficiently to support large-scale or multiple projects, ensuring excellence in safety, quality, sustainability, and efficiency for project delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing
Key Responsibilities:
- Communicate process strategy and culture clearly to site staff teams to drive project delivery excellence.
- Work with the Project Manager to oversee site activities, including logistics, temporary works, plant, and workforce management for safe execution.
- Programme and deploy site staff and plant across projects, ensuring their capabilities are utilised effectively.
- Collaborate with project departments to select and deliver fit-for-purpose plant and tools on schedule.
- Partner with projects to ensure proper staffing—workforce quantity, quality, and skills mix—within agreed timelines (from setup to project lifecycle).
- Develop apprentices and the workforce to maximise competence and zero harm initiative.
- Engage with the entire process team (including operations, preconstruction, commercial, plant, resource, QA, and design) for efficient project delivery.
- Ensure operations teams adhere to the Management System via support and audits.
- Manage, develop, and coach site teams to meet targets, maintaining a relentless focus on Hazard Reduction.
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Who We’re Looking For
Essential Requirements:
- CPCS Qualification (Minimum Managers & Professionals level).
- Customer-focused attitude with drive, ambition, and clear vision.
- Strong ability in conflict management and negotiation.
- Excellence in oral and written communication (all organisational levels and external stakeholders).
- Clear knowledge of Health and Safety Management.
- Experience in delivering major infrastructure projects.
- Understanding of BMS training requirements.
- Knowledge of piling and diaphragm wall techniques.
Desirable:
- Project Management qualification.
- Advanced computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and familiarity with programme management tools (e.g., MS Project).
- Relevant management experience in a geotechnical environment.
- ** Previous experience working with blue-collar teams**.
Why Work for Us?
We invest in innovation and skills development to deliver the infrastructure of the future.
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Key Benefits:
- Competitive and negotiated salary.
- Medical health coverage.
- Company car or car allowance.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
- 25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays).
- Pension schemes.
- Enhanced family-friendly policies (maternity/paternity leave).
- Refer and Earn: Earn while recommending skilled candidates.
- Discretionary annual salary reviews.
About Us
Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is a leading UK geo-technical contractor, specialising in innovative piling and ground improvement solutions for infrastructure and buildings.
We’ve supported the UK’s most ambitious projects, including:
- HS2
- The Shard
- Wembley Stadium
- Reading Station Viaduct
- Marble Arch Place
- Battersea Power Station redevelopment
- A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement
Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are aligned with a culture where innovation and equality thrive. We are proud of being a Gold Award recipient in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, actively encouraging applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we foster opportunities for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
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