Assistant Project Manager

About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join our team on the Highways Connect Plus Services Scheme, this role will be based in and around the M25 area.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

Supports strong collaborative relationships with the project management team, 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.

Supports 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.

Support the Design, agree and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.

Support projects throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, and construction informing investment proposals for our clients

Support the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.

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.

Support the performance of Framework Contractors and Designers as appropriate, ensuring that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for health and safety management, time and cost; and taking appropriate remedial action where necessary.

Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain

Work closely with the Construction/Supervisor team to ensure permits, certificates and site reporting are managed correctly and align to project needs.

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

Experience of working in teams to successful develop multiple projects concurrently

A strong collaborator, with integrity and experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders gaining the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.

Commercially focused, to drive project performance and ability to manage contracts to deliver outcomes

High resilience, to deal constructively with conflicting priorities and setbacks.

Excellent communication and organisational skills, to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies and solutions.

Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with Frameworks Contractors, Designers and internal partners.

Personal Attributes:

Proactive problem solving

Good communication and collaboration skills

Strong safety management culture

Ability to prioritise and self-manage

Ability to develop relationships and engender trust

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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

We are 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: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - 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

Job Reference: BBUK20162