10 Project Manager roles in UK Wide

What you'll be doing

As a Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in monitoring site performance and costs, ensuring the accurate execution of pile designs, and preparing quality assurance packs for our client.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Manage the project team and supply chain to deliver projects to time, cost, and quality targets and standards.


• Ensure safety targets and standards are maintained.


• Manage the customer relationship during delivery, including change and decision making, managing expectations.


• Manage external consultants (e.g. design) to enable delivery – driving value, customer focus and achievement of the project’s objectives.


• Ensure rigorous monthly project improvement processes are in place.


• Thorough implementation of planning, risk, project controls and change controls.


• Implementation of Lean principles throughout the project to drive productivity, performance and safety.


• Implementation of best practice commercial management

Who we're looking for

What we are looking for:

• Extensive Project Management experience within civils or marine civils.


• Experience of leading teams, and confidence in the ability to lead, influence and communicate with others to deliver targets are required.


• Financial awareness, with a desire to continuously improve safety and sustainability performance.


• An appropriate and valid CSCS card is required.

We would like you to have:

• Experience working for a piling, ground engineering, or civils subcontractor.


• Specific experience in Ground Improvements using deep soil mixing techniques.

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 Ground Engineering is one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.

Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.

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