Senior Pre-Construction Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pre-Construction Manager to join our Power T&D team, the successful candidate should live within a commutable distance to our Derby office.
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark; they’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. This newly created role is to focus on our key client National Grid Electricity Transmission with a particular focus on overhead line and underground cable projects.

Power T&D is about to embark on a journey of unprecedented growth and has a series of Major Projects that will be developed through an initial Early Contractor Involvement/pre-construction phase.

• ECI and pre-construction are a pivotal stage in the life cycle of a project - it connects business development to delivery. The work undertaken during this period influences every part of the delivery phase;
• The Senior Pre-Construction Manager will be involved from the ECI Phase through detailed design, through to handover to start on site;
• A key part of the role is to manage a seamless transition through the stages of our governance process - the Gated Lifecycle;
• This will include complying with governance, ensuring knowledge transfer, developing robust proposals and managing risk;

• Act as the lead day-to-day point of contact for the customer on allocated project/s working alongside the operational lead who will own the delivery solution;
• Alongside the operational lead, they will guide and motivate the pre-construction/ECI team for given project/s; coordinating deliverables of the team from feasibility proposal, throughout pre-construction (design development and scope definition) to formulation of final submission to secure a delivery agreement for construction;
• Support development of win strategies to successfully transition projects from feasibility/ECI, to pre-construction, to successful award of main site works;
• Work hand-in-hand with the proposals team to ensure feasibility and delivery agreement submissions are always to a high standard;
• Ensure that strategy and objectives are clearly defined and disseminated to the pre-construction/ECI team;
• Working closely with the Design Lead(s); ensure that either customers or Balfour Beatty are discharging their Principal Designer obligations under CDM 2015;
• Be accountable for ensuring design meetings and consultant outputs are well managed (whether employed by the customer or Balfour Beatty);
• Actively promote health & safety by design, including championing risk reduction during pre-construction to benefit site activities;
• Ensure that Balfour Beatty standards are implemented across assigned pre-construction project/s, and champion best practice sharing with others;
• Promote dialogue between colleagues in Balfour Beatty Power T&D, UKCS and the wider BB Group with the aim of continually improving the pre-construction processes and team knowledge;
• Prepare monthly reporting material and articulate key messages to internal and external stakeholders;
• Inform workload planning to ensure resources are identified for feasibility proposals and pre-construction services;
• Continually seek opportunities to integrate innovation into our feasibility and pre-construction process;
• Assist project teams in the adoption of BIM Level 2 standards, 3D design and CGI modelling;
• Actively promote defects avoidance (designing out defects) and embed a structured method of lessons learnt within design and construction;
• Develop and implement a robust process to ensure projects are always ‘fit to start’ on site. Support during construction mobilisation with handover to project lead for construction stage;
• Assist with the implementation of company and regional initiatives including 25 by 2025, MyC etc
• Mentor and develop team members to aid the upskilling of our workforce particularly in pre-construction;