Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Project Manager
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About The Role
Location: Ringmer, East Sussex
At Balfour Beatty, we’re shaping the future of infrastructure. We’re looking for a driven and experienced Senior Project Manager to join our team in Living Places – East Sussex to lead the successful delivery of Highway projects from initiation through to completion.
As a Senior Project Manager you will lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of project managers, supervisors, and designers, ensuring clear direction, strong collaboration, and effective delivery across all stages of the project lifecycle.
You’ll act as a key decision-maker, balancing customer requirements with project constraints, while driving team performance, design coordination, site delivery, stakeholder confidence, and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing
- Leading project governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement
- Providing clear leadership, coaching, and direction to project managers, supervisors, and designers
- Developing and leading high-performing, motivated teams across project management, supervision, and design disciplines
- Driving safe delivery with a strong focus on Zero Harm
- Managing highways portfolio, resources, and budgets
- Overseeing subcontractors and supply chain performance
- Leading risk, issue, and opportunity management processes
- Ensuring quality standards and assurance activities are met
- Monitoring progress and implementing effective project controls
- Supporting commercial performance, including cost control and recovery
- Championing digital tools and data-driven decision making
Who we're looking for
- Strong leadership capability with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop project managers, supervisors, and designers
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, including project managers, supervisors, and designers, with the ability to set clear expectations, support delivery, resolve issues, and maintain high levels of performance across project lifecycles
- Proven track record of delivering projects successfully
- Strong knowledge of contract forms and commercial awareness
- Experience implementing safe systems of work
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment
- Analytical, solution-focused approach to problem solving
- Full, clean UK Driving Licence
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Desirable
- Demonstrated experience managing a diverse portfolio of projects within Highways
- Active membership of a recognised professional body, such as the Association for Project Management (APM)
- Holder of a CSCS black card
- Proficiency in Microsoft Project for scheduling and project tracking
- Possession of an HNC or equivalent qualification
- Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) certified
- Experience and understanding in working on NEC4 contracts
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.
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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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