Works Manager - Connect Plus Services (CPS) - M25 London

Description:

About the role

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.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Works Manager as part of the Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based in South Mimms, Leatherhead or Dartford.

The role leads Project Delivery Construction Team tactically and strategically with the aim of ensuring we plan for safe and cost-effective solutions to maintain and improve the asset to the standards agreed. This includes the continuous improvement required to bring the team, asset and delivery towards industry best practises.

To ensure safe, compliant and accurate delivery of schemes from pre-construction through to practical site completion, through the leadership / management of the Supervisor, Construction Engineer team and the associated policies, processes, procedures and/or industry leading working practices.

The role holds responsibilities of both CDM regulations and NEC contract requirements across the construction team, ensuring practical constructability reviews take place during pre-construction design stage and then ensuring inspection and physical witnessing onsite is undertaken during construction.

The role is independent from the framework contractors and is primarily focused on ensuring the project is constructed in accordance to design, specifications and procedures set out by CP/CPS, including the escalation resolution.

What you'll be doing

Working collaboratively with the M25 Community for the schemes you will be responsible for:

Leading the Project Delivery supervision and construction engineering teams through business-as-usual delivery of works and change/improvement states.

Ensuring responsibilities and objectives set in each year’s Zero Harm Plan are met during delivery and demonstrate leadership in continuous improvement of the culture of their team.

Ensuring a high-quality relationship with Senior Leaders, Business Leads, Portfolio Managers and project teams to embrace the requirements of the one team approach.

Developing good relationships with all other teams and clients to ensure that all parties’ project requirements are understood and accounted for.

Sharing knowledge and resources when required across the Project Delivery team, to maximise efficiencies and to limit risk exposure to the business.

Whilst independent of framework contractors, the Works Manager shall also act as the Principal Contractor on some works.

Driving and Living the Connect Plus Services Values – ‘Safe & Well’, ‘Excellence’, ‘Reliable’ and ‘Sustainable’

As part of the integrated delivery team you will be expected to contribute to:

Maintaining high standards of safety and quality control on the contract via the monitoring of the construction works;

Resolution of technical problems on site;

Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting and collaborating with the integrated delivery team to form strong working relationships.

Develop design understanding to help provide a much needed link between design and technical construction engineering input onsite.

Who we're looking for

Experience and ability to lead and manage construction teams effectively.

Strong ability to drive continuous improvement and best industry practise within the team.

Scheduling jobs and team resources

Relevant knowledge of engineering and knowledge of what ‘good looks like’

Drive and a desire to deliver excellence.

Degree/HND in Civil Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience

Experience of the design and construction of highway infrastructure projects

Good writing, client-facing and communication skills

Diligent, proactive and thorough approach to detail.

Collaborative and practical approach to problem solving.

Knowledge of the Design Manual Road and Bridges and Specification for Highways works.

Experience in carrying out duties of NEC supervisor.

Good knowledge of traffic management and temporary works

Civil Engineering / Construction qualification.

Relevant knowledge of project management and engineering

A working understanding of other engineering and construction disciplines, along with a willingness to challenge ‘the norm’

Why work for us

CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.

About us

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 (url removed)/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.

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