3 Construction Manager roles in Peterborough

What you'll be doing

As our Construction Manager, you’ll take responsibility for construction delivery across your designated portfolio, ensuring Health, Safety, Environmental and Sustainability requirements are embedded throughout our work.

Working as part of an integrated Alliance team, you’ll combine strong construction leadership with a collaborative approach, looking beyond individual projects to identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency and improved performance.
Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and managing site construction teams across designated portfolios, ensuring projects are delivered within approved budgets and agreed timescales.


• Facilitating construction kick-off meetings and leading project health checks.


• Managing the performance of Tier 2 suppliers across Safety, Time and Quality, including reviewing and approving RAMS to ensure they are appropriate and adequate.


• Leading Constructability Reviews, Project Rehearsals and Fit for Assembly sign-off, helping to identify opportunities for innovation and outperformance.


• Driving a culture of zero accidents and zero defects, creating an environment where teams feel confident raising safety concerns.


• Supporting our sustainability ambitions by focusing on zero waste and reducing embodied carbon within construction activities.


• Ensuring site teams raise relevant contractual and commercial notices to the wider Project Team in a timely manner.


• Working with the Lead Construction Manager to identify both long- and short-term resource requirements across labour, plant and materials.


• Exploring opportunities to combine standard products with innovative construction techniques to improve delivery and maintain our position as industry leaders.


• Providing visible and effective leadership across Anglian Water sites throughout the region.

Who we're looking for

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring proven experience of managing operational resources within a fast-paced construction environment, together with an HNC or Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or a related discipline.

As you’ll be working across our Water and Water Recycling Non-Infrastructure programme, experience of working with large structures within the water industry is essential.

You’ll also have:

• Site Management Safety Training Scheme (SMSTS) training.


• Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme (SEATS) training.


• A CSCS Black Card as a minimum.


• Strong construction health, safety and environmental management experience.


• Experience leading and motivating multidisciplinary site teams.


• The ability to manage multiple priorities and conflicting demands while maintaining focus on safe, high-quality delivery.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with experience working across internal teams, partners, suppliers and other external stakeholders.


• A collaborative and performance-driven approach, with the confidence to be hands-on when required to achieve project outcomes.

Most importantly, you’ll be an engaging and visible leader who can inspire teams, encourage collaboration and create an environment where people have the confidence and autonomy to deliver at their best.

As the role provides leadership across our construction sites, regular travel throughout the Anglian Water region will be required.

Ready for your next challenge? Apply today and help us build a safer, more resilient and sustainable water future.

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’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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do.  Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. 

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments. 

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com