Project Manager - Derby
Balfour Beatty
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Job Title: Project Manager - Balvac
Location: Projects across the UK based in Leeds or Derby
Company: Balvac | Balfour Beatty
Deliver specialist projects. Lead with confidence. Make a real impact.
Balfour Beatty is recruiting a Project Manager to join Balvac, our specialist construction and remediation business working on some of the UK's most technically challenging projects.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll take full responsibility for safely delivering projects to time, cost and quality standards - while building strong customer relationships and driving continuous improvement.
About Balvac
Balvac is Balfour Beatty's specialist business unit, trusted to deliver projects where complexity, technical excellence and innovation are critical. Our work spans structural strengthening, refurbishment, remediation and heavy civils, often in live or constrained environments.
You'll enjoy autonomy, variety and challenge - backed by the scale, stability and career development opportunities of one of the UK's leading infrastructure groups.
About the Role
As Project Manager, you will lead project teams and supply chains from pre-construction through to completion, taking ownership of operational, commercial and safety performance.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
You will have the following:
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it's sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Balvac please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/balvac - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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#balvac
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Title: Project Manager - Balvac
Location: Projects across the UK based in Leeds or Derby
Company: Balvac | Balfour Beatty
Deliver specialist projects. Lead with confidence. Make a real impact.
Balfour Beatty is recruiting a Project Manager to join Balvac, our specialist construction and remediation business working on some of the UK's most technically challenging projects.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll take full responsibility for safely delivering projects to time, cost and quality standards - while building strong customer relationships and driving continuous improvement.
About Balvac
Balvac is Balfour Beatty's specialist business unit, trusted to deliver projects where complexity, technical excellence and innovation are critical. Our work spans structural strengthening, refurbishment, remediation and heavy civils, often in live or constrained environments.
You'll enjoy autonomy, variety and challenge - backed by the scale, stability and career development opportunities of one of the UK's leading infrastructure groups.
About the Role
As Project Manager, you will lead project teams and supply chains from pre-construction through to completion, taking ownership of operational, commercial and safety performance.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver projects safely, on time and within budget, with full P&L responsibility
- Lead safety with passion and credibility, embedding a Zero Harm culture and driving continuous improvement
- Engage closely with customers to manage change, expectations and long-term relationships
- Drive strong sustainability performance, promoting efficient management of waste, energy and water
- Embed operational excellence through leadership health checks and rigorous monthly project improvement processes
- Ensure effective planning, risk management, project controls and reporting
- Apply Lean construction principles and digital tools such as BIM360Field to optimise performance and safety
- Maintain a strong understanding of contract terms and conditions to support commercial decision-making
- Strong safety leadership with an uncompromising approach to Zero Harm
- A sustainability-driven mindset with a customer-focused approach
- Proven ability to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Commercial and contractual awareness
- Lean and digital construction expertise
- Sound financial acumen to deliver performance targets
You will have the following:
- Experience in project management within the construction sector
- Confident leader with strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Commercially aware with experience managing project finances
- Experience or strong understanding of Lean construction principles (desirable)
- Valid CSCS card
- Professional qualification (e.g. APMP) - desirable
- Work on specialist, technically complex projects that challenge and develop you
- Greater ownership and autonomy than traditional delivery roles
- A culture focused on safety, innovation and excellence
- Long-term career development within a major UK infrastructure business
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it's sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Balvac please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/balvac - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
#LI-HD1
#LI-Hybrid
#balvac
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, Crack injection, Leak sealing injection, Structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, Corrosion Protection and Cathodic Protection, Post tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, Concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
JOB SUMMARY
Project Manager - Derby
Balfour Beatty
Derby
a day ago
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Full-time
Project Manager - Derby