About the role

The Concrete Production & Logistics Project Manager is responsible for ensuring the reliable, efficient, and safe delivery of ready-mixed concrete across all concrete recipients on the SZC Civil Works Programme. The role provides the essential interface between site delivery teams, batching operations, logistics, and planning to ensure that concrete supply aligns with programme needs, capacity limits, technical requirements, and the concrete ordering & delivery procedure.

This role prevents uncoordinated, reactive, or unsafe concrete delivery by maintaining clear prioritisation, stable production flow, and controlled escalation routes during high-risk or constrained operations. It is a critical integrator function ensuring that batching plant utilisation, haulage, testing, and pour sequencing collectively support the project's delivery objectives.

What you'll be doing

1. Demand Forecasting

• Convert site programmes into realistic short-, medium-, and long-term concrete demand profiles.
• Review and challenge forecasts from concrete recipients to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Identify peaks and constraints early, feeding risks into planning and mitigation cycles.

1. Pour Prioritisation

• Lead weekly concrete coordination meetings to determine daily and weekly prioritisation of pours across the site.
• Ensure critical path, safety-critical, and large-scale pours are appropriately prioritised when capacity or haulage is constrained.
• Resolve competing demands or escalate unresolved conflicts to the Concrete Lead.

1. Delivery Coordination

• Align batching plant output, haulage capacity, site access windows, pump availability, and delivery routes.
• Ensure pour sequences, start times, and logistics.
• Maintain stable production flow and prevent batching under- or over-demand.

1. Exception Control

• Manage real-time issues such as overruns, aborted pours, breakdowns, weather impacts, resequencing, and compliance constraints.
• Coordinate with laboratory teams on technical issues affecting concrete acceptance or rejection.
• Implement controlled decision-making processes to maintain safety and quality.

1. Escalation Authority

• Act as the authorised interface for urgent or out-of-tolerance decisions during live operations.
• Maintain auditable records of decisions, conflicts, and actions during live pours.

Ensure all urgent instructions are compliant with CODP Section 6.1 and project governance

Who we're looking for

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Strong understanding of concrete batching operations, delivery logistics, and construction sequencing.
• Ability to interpret construction programmes, pour sequences, ITP requirements, and technical constraints.
• High-level IT.
• Proven experience in managing high-volume, time-critical delivery operations.
• Effective decision-making under pressure and in live operational environments.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding of safety, quality, and compliance requirements in heavy civil engineering.

Desirable

• Experience in nuclear, heavy civils, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of QSRMC requirements, concrete testing processes, and laboratory interfaces.

Experience with digital ordering or logistics management systems.

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?

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's Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK's most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we're driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.

From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.

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