Associate / Project Specialist - Leeds
Balfour Beatty
About the role
Job Title: Associate / Project Support Specialist
Location: Derby or Leeds
Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac
About Balvac
Balvac is a specialist contractor delivering complex structural strengthening, refurbishment, and asset life-extension projects across the UK. Trusted to operate where safety, quality, and technical excellence matter most, Balvac works across highways, bridges, marine and critical infrastructure.
As part of the Balfour Beatty Group, Balvac combines specialist expertise with the strength, scale, and stability of a major infrastructure organisation.
The Role
We are seeking a high-calibre Associate to work closely with the Balvac Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team (SLT). This is a pivotal, business-wide role providing capacity, focus, and delivery support across Pre-Construction, Technical Services, Operations, Commercial, and Business Development.
You will lead and support strategically important projects, governance activities, communications, and commercial processes-playing a key role in shaping how Balvac operates and grows.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
About You
You'll be commercially astute, confident working at senior level, and comfortable operating across multiple business functions.
Essential experience includes:
You will demonstrate:
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 please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers
You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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: Associate / Project Support Specialist
Location: Derby or Leeds
Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac
About Balvac
Balvac is a specialist contractor delivering complex structural strengthening, refurbishment, and asset life-extension projects across the UK. Trusted to operate where safety, quality, and technical excellence matter most, Balvac works across highways, bridges, marine and critical infrastructure.
As part of the Balfour Beatty Group, Balvac combines specialist expertise with the strength, scale, and stability of a major infrastructure organisation.
The Role
We are seeking a high-calibre Associate to work closely with the Balvac Managing Director and Senior Leadership Team (SLT). This is a pivotal, business-wide role providing capacity, focus, and delivery support across Pre-Construction, Technical Services, Operations, Commercial, and Business Development.
You will lead and support strategically important projects, governance activities, communications, and commercial processes-playing a key role in shaping how Balvac operates and grows.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support defined projects and governance activities across the Balvac business
- Support the Managing Director and SLT in delivery, reporting, and strategic initiatives
- Manage delivery and reporting of cross-business projects in line with business controls
- Lead and support business communications, including development of social media presence
- Review market intelligence, competitor activity, and industry news to identify opportunities
- Lead/support Scape Framework compliance and best practice
- Lead/support Supplier Questionnaires (SQs), PQQs, and vendor accreditations (including Constructionline)
- Manage CRM systems and Digital GBL processes
- Provide commercial support at GBL stages 1-4, including initial contract reviews
- Manage and support Balvac and Testal Administrators
- Facilitate SLT meetings and support employee engagement events
- Support marketing, brand development, and business growth initiatives
About You
You'll be commercially astute, confident working at senior level, and comfortable operating across multiple business functions.
Essential experience includes:
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with Directors and senior stakeholders
- Degree educated in a business or professional discipline
- Experience in an operational management or leadership role within a large organisation
- Demonstrated delivery of complex projects and strategic initiatives
- Strong analytical and commercial judgement skills
- Advanced IT capability, particularly Excel and management information reporting
You will demonstrate:
- Smart thinking - strong business and commercial judgement
- Drive - self-starter mentality with determination to deliver results
- Agility - adaptable, energised by change, quick to learn
- Influence - able to win hearts and minds at all levels
- Collaboration - values teamwork and shared success
- Change leadership - confident leading improvement and transformation
- Business acumen - strong understanding of markets, customers, and competitors
- Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making
- A unique, business-wide role with real influence
- Work on complex, high-profile infrastructure projects
- Career development within Balvac and the wider Balfour Beatty Group
- Competitive salary and benefits package
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 please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers
You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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
Associate / Project Specialist - Leeds
Balfour Beatty
Leeds
3 days ago
N/A
Full-time
Associate / Project Specialist - Leeds