Site Manager - Peterborough

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About the role

Site Manager - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Join a powerhouse collaboration driving the future of water infrastructure!

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies - Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO - delivering over half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

We're seeking a Site Manager to lead the way.

In this role, you'll oversee projects from inception to completion, ensuring safe, high-quality, and efficient delivery. You'll manage supervisors, delivery teams, and subcontractors on-site, optimising resources to meet budgets and programme deadlines.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Implementing and monitoring health, safety, quality, and environmental (SHEQ) standards to ensure compliance with water industry regulations.
• Leading and managing site-based teams and subcontractors to drive operational excellence.
• Delivering projects within budget and agreed timelines while proactively managing risks and programme adjustments.
• Contributing to P6 planning during the design stage and ensuring site lookaheads maximise efficiency.
• Collaborating on the Construction Phase Plan using digital platforms to streamline operations.
• Reviewing and ensuring compliance with contract documentation.
• Providing accurate and timely weekly and monthly SHEQ reports.

Who we're looking for

What we are looking for:

• Relevant CSCS management card.
• SEATS (Site Environmental Awareness Training Scheme) or an equivalent internal course.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness.
• In-depth knowledge of SHEQ, industry regulations, and legal requirements.
• Proven experience managing subcontractors, supervisors, and on-site teams.

This is more than just a job - it's a career-defining opportunity to be at the forefront of industry change.

If you're a proactive leader ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you!

Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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.