Job description
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Living Places team as a Construction Manager and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
To manage a number of technical services areas which fall within the third party growth team and assume responsibilities for supply chain management.
Responsible for building effective relationships with Warwickshire, Solihull, Coventry and third party clients whist ensuring that budgets, resources & strategies are in place to ensure long term profitability and expansion of the contract.
What you'll be doing
As a Construction Manager what you'll be doing:
- Embedding a culture of Zero Harm
- Ensure compliance with all statutory and company procedures across all the functions, H & S specifically
- Responsible for liaison with the clients to understand available budgets and works required to be delivered within any financial year
- Client management to provide routine and timely programme and updates to works scheduled
- Management of effective resources to meet the workload demand, ensuring that resources are utilised in line with the programme of works
- Liaison with sub-contractors to cascade scope of works, obtain sufficient resources for delivery
- Production of works programmes and end to end management of programmed works.
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract
- Detailed operational knowledge
- Understanding of emergency and winter service operations (NVQ Qualification)
- Good level of Business Acumen
- Good interpersonal skills; communication, can provide clear direction,
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adaptable to changing situations.
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
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.
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 Women into Construction. 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 Reference: BBUK05067