Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Project Manager
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About The Role
Senior Project Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)
Location: Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project 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
Key Responsibilities / Duties
- To operate in the capacity of the Portfolio Manager in their absence
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, 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.
- 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.
- Global or master programme maintenance for whole portfolios
- Portfolio income and cost profiles, overseeing and challenging the Project Managers input.
- Client liaison on a project and portfolio level
- Project change control and reviewing processes and procedure
- Allocation of projects to PMs based on appropriate knowledge, experience, ability, and capability (workload)
- Working arrangements (shift work, need for travel etc)
- Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as and when required
- Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift)
- Full Driving Licence
Who we're looking for
- Experience in the delivery of highways construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
- Project Management skills, preferably supported by recognised PM qualification, PRINCE2, APMP etc.
- Preference of minimum HNC / HND (or equivalent) in a 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 design teams and 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
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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
- Experience at a senior level in the delivery of highways construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
- Previous experience in a similar role with demonstrable competence in relation to the majority of the responsibilities listed above.
- Experience of managing 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.
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…
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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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