Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Project Manager within the Construction Management and Engineering Function This role will be based on site in Kingsbury Birmingham.

This role will manage a team to coordinate the safe delivery of all operational activities for overseeing the implementation and operations of access, time and attendance systems, aftercare, hand-back, and farmpack systems, as well as associated civil delivery works on sites in Area North along with the management of all interfaces with third parties. This role involves working closely with site operations, senior management, stakeholders and technical teams to ensure these systems and processes are effectively designed, deployed, managed, implemented and maintained, including associated logistics.

The Project Manager will also ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and sustainability regulations and best practices throughout the project's lifecycle. As a Senior Manager you will also be interfacing with the workforce and line managing our operational positions. This role must ensure all operations are compliant with the Company’s Management systems and we are fully ready to delivery our scope in a safe manner. You will direct and manage the project and the projects development over the project life cycle, oversee project team, ensuring effective use of resources, and maintain liaison with clients, suppliers, stakeholders and subcontractors. Ensure strict compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards. Manage project financials to ensure completion within budget while achieving quality benchmarks and Drive continuous improvement in project execution and team performance.

Experienced required

• Understanding of Engineering principles Comprehensive understanding and experience of a wide range of construction techniques and best practices
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify technical issues and develop effective solutions
• Experience working in environments requiring close coordination with natural resource and land management planning
• Relevant CSCS Card
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Training in Health & Safety and Environmental management
• Basic Computer competence (E-mail, MS word, excel & intranet)
• Previous line management experience: A background working in major projects is desirable for this role

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance 

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.