About the role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Highways Handover Lead (Regional) to join our Highways team to work across the London and South region.
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.
The Highways Regional lead will provide support to NEAR, M1 J10-13, M4/M5, M20, M25 J10. Responsible to the projects for the effective certification and timely handover of all Highways projects on a regional scale.
What you'll be doing
Some other key responsibilities will be:
- Lead the Handover teams who are responsible for the management of handover deliverables across the various frameworks, on a regional scale.
- Follow projects through to completion and support the certification and handover of the schemes through implementation of the certification strategy.
- Understand all key stakeholder needs and establish vision and clear direction for the project team.
- Define handover requirements and deliverables with all stakeholders during project mobilisation phase.
- Provide regular progress reports to the Highways Leadership Team
- Facilitate the completion of applicable governance processes in support of handover, at agreed milestone dates.
- Conduct in-depth lessons learnt workshops following project close-out.
- Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communication throughout delivery.
- Be a subject matter expert and offer advice, support, technical and contractual assistance to all interested parties on certification and handover related matters.
- Ensure quality assurance throughout the design, manufacture, fabrication, construction, and handover phases of the projects.
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
- Experience working within complex and major infrastructure projects within the construction industry.
- Strong working knowledge of Quality Management, and UK and international standards (i.e., ISO 9001 and 19650)
- Commercial/contractual awareness
- Excellent leadership skills
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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 wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats 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 Beattys 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 added 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 find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
We are 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. For more info, 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 this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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