Senior Pre-Construction Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pre-Construction Manager to join our Power T&D team, the successful candidate should live within a commutable distance to our Derby office.

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark; they're an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. This newly created role is to focus on our key client National Grid Electricity Transmission with a particular focus on overhead line and underground cable projects.

Power T&D is about to embark on a journey of unprecedented growth and has a series of Major Projects that will be developed through an initial Early Contractor Involvement/pre-construction phase.

• ECI and pre-construction are a pivotal stage in the life cycle of a project - it connects business development to delivery. The work undertaken during this period influences every part of the delivery phase;
• The Senior Pre-Construction Manager will be involved from the ECI Phase through detailed design, through to handover to start on site;
• A key part of the role is to manage a seamless transition through the stages of our governance process - the Gated Lifecycle;
• This will include complying with governance, ensuring knowledge transfer, developing robust proposals and managing risk;

What you'll be doing

• Act as the lead day-to-day point of contact for the customer on allocated project/s working alongside the operational lead who will own the delivery solution;
• Alongside the operational lead, they will guide and motivate the pre-construction/ECI team for given project/s; coordinating deliverables of the team from feasibility proposal, throughout pre-construction (design development and scope definition) to formulation of final submission to secure a delivery agreement for construction;
• Support development of win strategies to successfully transition projects from feasibility/ECI, to pre-construction, to successful award of main site works;
• Work hand-in-hand with the proposals team to ensure feasibility and delivery agreement submissions are always to a high standard;
• Ensure that strategy and objectives are clearly defined and disseminated to the pre-construction/ECI team;
• Working closely with the Design Lead(s); ensure that either customers or Balfour Beatty are discharging their Principal Designer obligations under CDM 2015;
• Be accountable for ensuring design meetings and consultant outputs are well managed (whether employed by the customer or Balfour Beatty);
• Actively promote health & safety by design, including championing risk reduction during pre-construction to benefit site activities;
• Ensure that Balfour Beatty standards are implemented across assigned pre-construction project/s, and champion best practice sharing with others;
• Promote dialogue between colleagues in Balfour Beatty Power T&D, UKCS and the wider BB Group with the aim of continually improving the pre-construction processes and team knowledge;
• Prepare monthly reporting material and articulate key messages to internal and external stakeholders;
• Inform workload planning to ensure resources are identified for feasibility proposals and pre-construction services;
• Continually seek opportunities to integrate innovation into our feasibility and pre-construction process;
• Assist project teams in the adoption of BIM Level 2 standards, 3D design and CGI modelling;
• Actively promote defects avoidance (designing out defects) and embed a structured method of lessons learnt within design and construction;
• Develop and implement a robust process to ensure projects are always ‘fit to start’ on site. Support during construction mobilisation with handover to project lead for construction stage;
• Assist with the implementation of company and regional initiatives including 25 by 2025, MyC etc
• Mentor and develop team members to aid the upskilling of our workforce particularly in pre-construction;

Who we're looking for

• The role requires an individual who is organised, able to manage a broad range of stakeholders and implement strategies to overcome technical challenges;
• They will have the ability to bring the best out of the pre-construction team while drawing on the capability of other colleagues in the region and the wider business;
• The individual will be from an infrastructure background; with key attributes of technical civil engineering and/or electrical engineering capability combined with a collaborative mindset;
• The individual will be motivated by working in an environment with highly skilled colleagues where continuous improvement and teamwork are part of business as usual.

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.

• Balfour Beatty Power T&D is the leader in its core markets of delivering overhead power lines, underground cabling and substations;
• Our mission is to sustainably connect communities and we are a key part in the transition to net zero;
• We are about to embark on an unprecedented journey of growth, with a order book and pipeline spanning the next 8 years;
• Our projects will be delivered utilising an Early Contractor Involvement approach, enabling us to bring the best of our in-house design & engineering capability to bear;
• This role will be a critical part of that growth story and will be shaping some of the UK's most complex and iconic energy projects for decades;
• Ultimately, we will spend the next decade powering up Britain, enabling net zero and bringing the UK energy security

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 Beattys 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 worlds 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 on the Balfour Beatty website.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability For
um 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 on the Balfour Beatty website.