Job Description

About the role
Are you a seasoned professional passionate about delivering world-class infrastructure in the power transmission and distribution (T&D) sector? Balfour Beatty is looking for a driven Overhead Line (OHL) Construction Manager to join our Power T&D team in Ipswich.
As an OHL Construction Manager, you'll lead the delivery of complex overhead line projects, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency are at the heart of everything we do. Working on transformative projects within the power T&D sector, you'll manage teams, schedules, and resources to deliver on our promise of excellence.
As a Construction Manager you'll:

• Support the Delivery Manager / Senior Project Manager in their responsibility for overall profit and loss of a standard or major project whilst ensuring the highest standards of safety, sustainability, environmental and quality are implemented

• Promote a collaborative working environment which ensures client, internal and other stakeholders' requirements are effectively managed, and employees feel motivated and engaged to deliver

• Support in the winning of a number of projects in accordance with the Power T&D Strategic Plan as necessary.

In return we offer you:
Competitive - DOA + excellent benefits including Site Allowances, Company Car and Subsistence Allowances (Subject to T&C's of role)
What you'll be doing

• Manage Site Managers / Project Engineers to ensure that all work undertaken satisfies all required safety and technical policies and procedures

• Plan the work and oversee the requirements for necessary materials, plant and equipment

• Oversee the requirements for resource and then manage staff for the project

• Manage the construction site(s) on a day-to-day basis, including supervising the labour force, monitoring subcontractors, checking materials, inspecting work and overseeing quality control

• Ensure that all work is carried out according to NRSWA and be responsible for effective liaison and collaboration with Highways Authorities, Local Authorities and other Utilities providers etc.

• Ensure the project is delivered on time and on budget by setting benchmarks, agreeing budgets and monitoring progress

• Check design documents

• Responsible for a working environment which ensures the achievement of all safety and environment legislation, engineering and customer standards.

Who we're looking for

• Full Clean UK Driving Licence

• Previous experience working on OHL National Grid Projects is desirable

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
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 at
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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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