Balfour Beatty plc
Delivery Manager
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About The Role
Location: Southampton
Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to lead the safe, efficient and commercially successful delivery of programming, design and project delivery activities across our Southampton contract.
Managing programmes and schemes worth up to £35m per annum, you'll provide strategic leadership across planning, design and project management teams, ensuring client priorities, contractual commitments and business objectives are achieved.
What you'll be doing
- Leading the delivery of capital programmes and operational projects across the Southampton contract.
- Providing leadership to Programming, Design and Project Management teams.
- Driving collaboration across planning, design and delivery disciplines.
- Managing contract performance, governance, risk and reporting.
- Championing a culture of Zero Harm and continuous improvement.
- Working with commercial teams to manage budgets, resources, forecasting and change.
- Building strong relationships with Client, supply chain partners and key stakeholders.
- Promoting data-driven decision making through digital tools and performance reporting.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Proven leadership experience within project delivery, construction, highways or infrastructure environments.
- Strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing teams and developing high-performing individuals.
- Ability to create and implement delivery strategies.
- Strong understanding of performance management and key delivery metrics.
- Customer-focused with a collaborative leadership style.
- Ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.
- Experience across a variety of project types.
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Professional Management or Project Delivery Qualification/s.
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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:
- 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
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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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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