Balfour Beatty plc
PDA Linear and Street Lighting Portfolio Manager
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About The Role
PDA Linear & Street Lighting Portfolio Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)
Location: Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms
We have an exciting opportunity for a PDA Linear & Street Lighting Portfolio Manager to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project.
CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment, alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.
If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.
What you'll be doing
As a Portfolio Manager for PDA, responsible for delivering a £13m annual programme of linear and street lighting asset replacement projects across the M25 – one of the UK’s busiest and most complex motorway networks
Leading a team of Project Managers, you will oversee around 60 projects each year, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards. The role covers the full project lifecycle, from early investigation and design development through to construction and handover, working closely with contractors, stakeholders and the client to achieve predictable and cost-effective delivery.
Key Responsibilities / Duties
- Monthly reporting schedule which includes PSR, CPM. Ensure owners are identified for required inputs and they complete in required timescales and are suitable to review by the relevant delivery lead.
- Lead AMFP and AAMR process to ensure required interfaces, inputs and deadlines are achieved. Focus on ensuring the AMFP commitments on the PDA team are well understood and achievable.
- Ensuring Project Manager’s attend monthly forecast meetings and provide robust updates which align with programme. Give guidance to the PM’s on the fundamental principles of forecasting and ensuring a consistent approach across the team. Develop Income and cost profiles, overseeing and challenging the Project Managers input.
- Manage the Project Manager’s through the gateway process to ensure the governance is complied with and well understood. There should be a degree of consistency added to the presentation packs compiled and attendees for key disciplines are represented.
- Monitor the workload of PM’s and support project reallocations where appropriate or additional support.
- Stakeholder Management - Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Asset Team and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the project delivery objectives, to report on and review performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
- Maintaining 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrate high standards of visible safety leadership. Ensure that the required levels of safety performance are delivered, and that behavioural safety is promoted throughout the teams, based on the principles of Making Safety Personal. Ensure that the safety culture within the team is strong.
- Ensure all projects within the asset portfolio comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies. Prepare monthly reports on portfolio delivery, presenting these to clients and senior leadership where required.
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Qualifications/ Skills
- Proven experience in project delivery, involving a programme of a comparable value to this role.
- Strong leadership skills and experience managing a team, preferably within a matrix organisation.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and under pressure.
- Familiarity with the industry's safety standards and regulations.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or relevant field OR suitable level of experience in industry
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification (e.g. AMP PMQ)
- A good working knowledge of NEC3 and 4 Contracts
- Preference of minimum HNC / HND (or equivalent) in a mechanical and electrical, civil engineering or other construction-based discipline.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of other design areas.
- Understanding of Environmental requirements of schemes
- Experience of coordinating interfaces with external resources
- Understanding of H&S Requirements related to highway construction & maintenance works.
- Knowledge of CDM and other H&S legislation
- Competent in exercising the duties under CDM.
- Applicable CSCS Card
- Team leadership and management experience in driving performance and productivity
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong customer focus with a service delivery mindset
- Commercial understanding and budgetary control experience
- Understanding of Lean principles
Personal Attributes
- Proactive problem solving
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong safety management culture
- Self-aware and adaptable style to meet varying project needs.
- Resilient
- Presentation skills.
- Team building skills.
- Ability to prioritise and self-manage.
- Ability to develop relationships and engender trust.
Experience:
- Previous experience in a similar role with demonstrable competence in relation to the majority of the responsibilities listed above.
- Experience of managing highways projects through complete lifecycle
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.
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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
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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