Balfour Beatty has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Manager OHL to join their rapidly expanding Power Transmission and Distribution team working on projects across the UK. The successful individual will have experience working on overhead line projects. With the Power business in a key stage of growth, there is plenty of scope for development in this role, making it suitable for someone with ambition and drive to grow with the business.

Our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions, developing, managing, and maintaining vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies, and communities rely on.

Key Responsibilities and Requirements:

1. Project delivery experience ensuring high quality and safety standards
2. Experience in Power/Utilities within large infrastructure projects
3. Strong communication skills to manage, mentor, and empower your team
4. Confidence and credibility to liaise with business leaders
5. Commercial acumen to control costs and keep projects within budget
6. Understanding of standard forms of contracts and performance evaluation techniques
7. Experience managing overhead line, cabling, or substation schemes up to 400kV (preferable)
8. Strong people management skills
9. Proven track record in tendering and managing complex projects, including sub-contractors
10. Knowledge of budgetary and financial control

About Balfour Beatty:

We offer limitless career opportunities, an inclusive culture, and work on some of the industry's most complex projects. Our teams support a reliable and safe power supply to millions of homes and businesses worldwide, handling schemes ranging from £50,000 to over £100 million.

Our Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national, and international electricity network owners and operators, providing technical engineering solutions across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks, and substations. We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, with initiatives and partnerships supporting this goal.

Learn more about our career opportunities at www.balfourbeattycareers.com.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and Women into Construction. We have signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter and are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme'. We actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, reservists, and applicants with disabilities, offering interviews to those who meet the minimum requirements.