About The Role
Senior Project Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance) – Location: Thorpewood House, Peterborough (hybrid working available). Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water’s One Alliance, a collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
Now working in our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period – AMP 8 – we are delivering a programme of work larger than ever before. We’re looking to build on our existing teams, providing an environment for career progression and enhanced growth opportunities.
As Senior Project Manager, you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of projects, developing delivery strategies and guiding them from initial concept through to client approval and final handover. You’ll oversee all aspects—design, construction, commissioning, and aftercare—ensuring projects meet agreed standards and deadlines in a dynamic, rewarding setting. You’ll champion excellent customer service and seek out creative approaches to working and technology that add real value.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the end‑to‑end management of multiple projects, aligning outcomes with strategic objectives and driving outperformance.
* Prioritise Health & Safety, Environment & Quality (SHEQ) throughout all stages, never compromising standards.
* Build and nurture a high‑performing team, coaching and developing individuals to achieve their career goals and enhance organisational capability.
* Manage stakeholders proactively and transparently, fostering collaboration and constructive challenge to achieve shared success.
* Develop and implement commercial strategies, including procurement, for optimal portfolio delivery.
* Balance risk and cost through active leadership, applying timely mitigation strategies as needed.
* Ensure adherence to governance processes and procedures for effective project control.
Who we’re looking for
What we’re looking for
* APMP or equivalent (Practitioner level) qualification.
* Extensive experience as a Project Manager or Lead Project Manager (Senior PM/Project Director level).
* Proven track record managing schemes valued between £100m and £175m.
* Confident in leading teams and engaging with demanding stakeholders.
* Experience working within commercial alliances and a strong appreciation for collaborative success.
* Demonstrates sound judgement, decisive leadership, and a commitment to driving performance safely and efficiently.
* Innovative, visible, and inspirational leadership style, with a passion for building integrated teams that consistently add value.
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/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Why join us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects. We develop, build and maintain the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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 order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting 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 an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
We are members of WISE, ENEI, the 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 encourages 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. For more information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share it with us at candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your project management career and make a meaningful impact within an industry‑leading alliance, we encourage you to apply today!
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