About the role
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Logistics Manager - Balfour Beatty Highways - NEAR Scheme - Around M25, London/Home Counties to join our Highways team based at various locations around the M25 for our NEAR (National Emergency Area Retrofit Programme) scheme.
What you'll be doing
As a Logistics Manager - Balfour Beatty Highways - NEAR Scheme - Around M25, London/Home Counties, you will provide daily coordination of the logistic resource streams on various projects related to the NEAR scheme for our Balfour Beatty Highways business unit around the M25.
- Responsible for formulating, leading, motivating, and managing the logistics team; the team includes resource controllers, store personnel and security.
- Responsible for coaching direct reports and mentoring inexperienced staff.
- Responsible for developing and implementing the Project Construction Logistics and Security Strategy (CLSS); and updating when required.
- Ensure HSE targets and standards are maintained
- Oversee all movements of resources to and from site efficiently and ensuring associated records are kept and managed appropriately and in a digital manner.
Who we're looking for
- Either degree level qualification in Supply and Logistics or extensive experience or knowledge of industry and activity from the shop floor level upwards relating to logistics and supply or Construction Logistics
- Supply Chain Management experience management of customers and suppliers
- Risk and Opportunity management experiencing, including the implementation of change programmes
- Ability to communicate effectively to ensure customer relationships are managed, in addition to planning and organisation skills to deliver operational excellence and efficiency
- Effective leadership skills, including experience of leading teams and confidence in the ability to lead, influence, negotiate and communicate with others to deliver targets are required
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.
Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 42 core base hours per week
- Company Car
- 25 days annual leave
- Pension savings schemes
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
About us
Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart 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 our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.
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/
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