Package Manager - Grays

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About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Package Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme-wide, industry leading approach to carbon reduction.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

The Package Manager is responsible for the successful delivery, quality, and performance of assigned works packages within the Lower Thames Crossing M25 Diversion scope.

What you'll be doing

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

• Maintain a safe working environment, strictly enforcing health and safety regulations, best practices, and the Construction Phase Plan.
• Champion the Beyond Zero Harm initiative, actively promoting workforce wellbeing.

Programme Management

• Plan and coordinate all self-delivered and subcontracted works, ensuring resources and training are in place before commencement.
• Drive progress to meet or surpass project programme dates, monitoring weekly progress and identifying opportunities and risks.

Project Management

• Build, motivate, and develop a high-performing team to achieve project objectives.
• Hold regular meetings with subcontractors, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure collaboration and effective communication.
• Coordinate all site activities to maintain workflow and resolve issues efficiently.

Engineering & Design Management

• Oversee the communication and understanding of design information, ensuring adherence to construction methodologies.
• Coordinate with the design team for technical queries and support engineers in best practices, including training

Procurement

• Prepare technical scopes for tenders, support pre-award meetings, and assist with requisitions for materials and resources.
• Remain accountable for timely and compliant delivery of procurement packages.

Who we're looking for

• Significant experience in a similar role, ideally on large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong leadership, team management, and communication skills.
• Thorough understanding of construction regulations, best practices, and NEC 3/4 contracts.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Engineering or Construction Management qualification (degree or equivalent).
• Full UK driving licence.
• Fit for work medical assessment.
• Valid CSCS card.
• Pre-start drug and alcohol test.
• BPSS Security Clearance (arranged by the project Security Manager; requires a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check).

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• 42 core base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

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 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

We are 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