Job Specifications
About The Role
Job Title: Contracts Manager
Location: Flexible base: Leeds / Warrington / Derby (with regular site presence across the UK)
Company: Balfour Beatty - Balvac
About The Role
Are you an experienced Contracts Manager looking to take ownership of complex, high-value projects and make a real impact on safety, sustainability and delivery excellence?
Join Balfour Beatty – Balvac, our specialist strengthening, repair and refurbishment business, where you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering multiple projects across the UK while building long-term client relationships
About The Role
Reporting to the Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of multiple projects, from work-winning through to completion. You’ll balance commercial responsibility, operational leadership and customer focus, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards.
This role is office-based from Leeds, Warrington or Derby, with regular time spent on site depending on project needs.
What you'll be doing
Managing the delivery and performance of multiple projects, including full P&L responsibility
Leading safety with passion and credibility, driving our Zero Harm culture
Building and maintaining strong customer relationships, managing change and expectations throughout delivery
Ensuring compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, policies and governance
Managing external consultants, subcontractors and supply chain partners
Driving operational excellence through planning, risk management, project controls and Lean principles
Championing sustainability, including waste, energy and water efficiency
Using BIM, Lean Visual Management and digital tools to optimise delivery and safety
Providing clear, robust reporting on progress, risk and performance to senior stakeholders
Supporting repeat business and long-term client partnerships through excellent delivery
Who we're looking for
You Will Have The Following:
Proven experience in Contracts or Project Management within the construction sector
Strong leadership capability with the confidence to influence, motivate and lead teams
Excellent communication and relationship-management skills
Sound commercial and financial awareness
Experience (or strong understanding) of Lean construction principles
Knowledge of contract conditions and change control processes
A valid CSCS card
Relevant professional or technical qualifications (desirable)
Why Join Balvac?
Work on technically challenging and varied projects across the UK
Flexible office base with a mix of office, site and stakeholder engagement
Be part of a business that genuinely values innovation, customer focus and collaboration
Strong career development opportunities within Balfour Beatty
A culture built around safety, sustainability and continuous improvement
If you’re ready to lead with impact and deliver excellence on some of the UK’s most interesting infrastructure and structural engineering projects, we’d love to hear from you.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section
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.
About Us
Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation.
Our core business is the structural repair strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities.
Specialist capabilities include: Concrete repair, inclu
About the Company
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. With 27,000 employees, we are driving the delivery of powerful new solutions, shaping thinking, creating skylines and inspiring a new generation of talent to be the change-makers of tomorrow.
We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.
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