What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities will include ( but not exhausted) to:

• Work collaboratively with the Heads of Operations, Executive Leadership Team and other parts of Balfour Beatty to deliver Power T&D strategic objectives and enhance solid working relationships across the business


• Planning, controlling and managing the delivery of large complex projects utilising the necessary resource and skills, within the agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality


• Instil a strong safety culture and develop the capability of our project teams to take personal responsibility through strong visible leadership


• Leading engagement with design and engineering teams to ensure the successful development of the technical solutions in line with customer requirements and specifications


• Planning and implementation of quality management processes to ensure defect free delivery


• Drive yourself and others to comply with all business policies, procedures and governance


• Lead in developing a high performance culture of one team


• Project leadership and management of the tender process to deliver tenders to successfully and encourage constantly seeking out talent for the future


• Day to day management of client expectations whilst promoting the value we bring

Who we're looking for

To make a real impact as a Project Director with us, you’ll need:

• Proven experience at Senior Management level and Project Director level


• Sound track record of the management and delivery of technically complex projects in the power transmission or equivalent industry


• Strong people management skills


• Proven track record in tendering and managing complex projects, including sub-contractors


• Commercial awareness with knowledge of both budgetary and financial control


• Excellent relationship management skills

If you’re inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Project Director. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you’ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us.

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

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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/