project manager Lewes, England
Job description
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Living Places team as a Senior Project Manager and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
The end to end management of the planning and delivery of project specific activities; including people management and liaison with Stakeholders.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Project Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:
- Develop business plans and strategies in order to meet customer needs and aspirations and efficiently deliver
- Ensure that processes and plans are followed to ensure that all service agreements with the client and key performance indicators are fully achieved.
- Monitor, plan and control financial expenditure such that financial targets for profit and margin are fully met
- Develop and manage strategic links and relationships with customers and other key stakeholders involved in the projects, in order to fully understand their requirements & resolve issues and problems in a timely manner.
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
- The role requires significant previous contract management experience, along with highways maintenance, civil engineering or construction experience
- The ability to display knowledge of managing tender processes and possess the skills; to handle complex contract negotiations
- A person able to work on their own initiative and be able to schedule workload to meet priorities
- PC Literate with knowledge of MS applications e.g. Word, Excel
- Able to communicate and present confidently, clearly and expressively.
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: BBUK06050
