Pre-Construction Manager

About the role

Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team. Nationally recognised for how well we develop our people, weve the perfect opportunity for a talented Pre Construction Manager. Weve an incredibly diverse portfolio, too. That means huge exposure to increasingly complex infrastructure projects, masses of expertise at your fingertips, and a supportive culture in which to grow your skills, confidence and career.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Pre Construction Manager to join our Civils team covering the North West.

What you'll be doing

Lead the delivery of Preconstruction projects, and conversion into Construction Contracts for the Balfour Beatty Regional Civils Works. Projects will be within the Civil Engineering sector including, Highways, Active & Sustainable Travel, Flood and Coastal and Energy Transition. Projects ranging from 5M to 100M.

Lead two-stage pre-construction and tender activities in line with health and safety, budget requirements and customer drivers setting the pre-construction strategy and converting opportunities into construction contracts.Lead PCSA / 2-stage pre-construction activities in line with budget requirements and customer drivers for Civil Engineering and infrastructure projects

Ensure that pre-construction and tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner

Manage Balfour Beattys internal governance process

Manage the completion of contract governance

Formulate and implement the pre-construction strategy to deliver the project and convert into a construction contract

Formulate and implement the pre-construction strategy to deliver the project

Complete written responses to relevant tender questions submitted as part of a bid or pre-construction process

Consider the commercial attractiveness of project and report conclusions early to management

Assist in setting process key objectives and timescales, including managing bid cost / pre-construction budgets

Identify significant development/project risks and opportunities and report these using the IRIS system

Identify, report and manage significant development/project risks and opportunities

Meet customers on a regular basis and respond to queries

Convert 2-stage opportunities to on-site delivery projects

Liaise with the customer and act as the point of contact for delivering any aspects of the bid or pre-construction process

Who we're looking for

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

In UK Construction Services England & Wales business, our aim is to be the partner of choice; the go-to in our sector, trusted to deliver for our customers. We work across a huge and exciting range of sectors, including aviation, building, civils, defence and energy.

From ground investigations and flood defence to complex roads and bridges; primary schools to world class universities; ground-breaking hospitals to city centre living; the depth of our experience and quality of our projects is something we are proud of.

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 www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/