Project Manager - Elgin

Balfour Beatty Plc

Elgin, IL

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Elgin, IL
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What makes Balfour Beatty a great place to work? Is it the limitless career opportunities, our inclusive culture, the scale and complexity of our projects or working alongside the industry's finest experts? Hear from our colleagues across the UK, US and Hong Kong on why you should shape a career at Balfour Beatty. Visit our website to find out more and explore our exciting career opportunities: www.balfourbeattycareers.com #ShapeEverything

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Job No. BBUK19402

Project Manager - Elgin - Elgin

Power T&D

Project Management

Elgin

Permanent

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Power T&D team, supporting a major Overhead Line (OHL) project along the Beauly to Peterhead corridor, with key works centred around the Elgin area.

This is a high-profile, long-term infrastructure project critical to strengthening Scotland's energy network and supporting the transition to low-carbon power.

As Project Manager, you'll take full accountability for the safe, sustainable, and successful delivery of works from planning through to handover-leading a multi-disciplinary team and ensuring performance against programme, cost, and quality targets.

What you'll be doing

  • Leading the end-to-end delivery of OHL construction works, including planning, design, delivery, and commissioning
  • Managing site teams, subcontractors, and key stakeholders across a large geographical area
  • Ensuring a relentless focus on Health, Safety & Environmental (Zero Harm) standards
  • Owning project programme, budget, and commercial performance
  • Driving risk management, reporting, and governance processes
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, communities, and supply chain partners
  • Leading and developing a high-performing project team

Who we're looking for

We're keen to hear from candidates who bring strong leadership and proven delivery experience within large-scale infrastructure projects.

Essential experience & skills:

  • Demonstrable experience managing complex infrastructure or OHL / transmission projects
  • Strong understanding of project delivery, contract management, and commercial controls
  • Experience implementing safe systems of work and leading HSE performance
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Proven ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams

Qualifications (preferred):

  • Project Management qualification (or equivalent experience)
  • SMSTS / CSCS (or equivalent)
  • Membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. APM)

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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK's most ambitious power transmission and distribution 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

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