Operations Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Living Places team as a Operations Manager based in Southampton. You’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you’ll be doing

In this role you will lead production operations of single or multiple projects within a discrete operational team within a Delivery Unit, ensuring delivery of projects to meet or exceed targets and expectations. You will be responsible for managing customer relationships through to delivery, retaining the customer and following the achievement of expectations.

• Support work winning activities as required
• Champion Balfour Beatty Group policies and initiatives such as Digital, DFMA, Innovation and Customer Segmentation
• Lead a discrete group of managers to deliver projects safely and to time, cost, quality and sustainability targets, meeting customer needs and expectations
• Deliver financial performance of those projects under management including appropriate risk management to ensure that financial targets and objectives are met or exceeded
• Appreciate and understand the commercial implications and drivers within the construction process and incorporate these within decision making working closely with the operational team Commercial Manager.

In this role you will lead production operations of single or multiple projects within a discrete operational team within a Delivery Unit, ensuring delivery of projects to meet or exceed targets and expectations. You will be responsible for managing customer relationships through to delivery, retaining the customer and following the achievement of expectations.

• Support work winning activities as required
• Champion Balfour Beatty Group policies and initiatives such as Digital, DFMA, Innovation and Customer Segmentation
• Lead a discrete group of managers to deliver projects safely and to time, cost, quality and sustainability targets, meeting customer needs and expectations
• Deliver financial performance of those projects under management including appropriate risk management to ensure that financial targets and objectives are met or exceeded
• Appreciate and understand the commercial implications and drivers within the construction process and incorporate these within decision making working closely with the operational team Commercial Manager

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:

• 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