Post Construction Project Manager - Liverpool

About the role

Balfour Beatty is seeking a confident and solutions-driven Post-Construction Project Manager to support a portfolio of complex school projects across the Liverpool area. Working within our Regional Buildings division, you'll take the lead on coordinating and delivering remedial works across multiple live school environments - including cladding replacement, roofing packages, and wider post-handover improvements.

This is a site-based role (4 days per week) where your ability to navigate operational challenges, maintain strong stakeholder relationships, and uphold the highest safety and quality standards will be essential. Experience managing works in live, sensitive environments - particularly education settings - will set you up for success as you help us ensure these schools remain safe, compliant, and fully operational.

What you'll be doing

You will be the operational lead of site-based activities reporting into the Project Lead. The focus is specifically to deliver Cladding and Roofing works across eight Schools and experience of managing related works in a live, educational environment, is desirable. The role holds responsibility for ensuring all aspects of the operation, including Site Managers, Subcontractors (and their operatives), are suitably competent before starting work in compliance with company standards.

The role requires that all works are planned, managed and monitored. Responsibilities will be tailored according to the size of the team and project may include one or multiple line reports. Once on site the role involves daily briefings and the organisation of all matters on site including progress vs programme, logistics and maintaining the highest standards of HSE.

Lead the site operations and manage the supply chain to deliver projects in line with Balfour Beatty Zero Harm ambition and to time, cost and quality targets and standards.

Ensure safety targets and standards are maintained by:

• Knowing what safety excellence looks like and communicate safety with passion and
  credibility to inspire, motivate and lead the project team to achieve the vision
• Fostering a continuous improvement culture by actively seeking input from all
  members of the project team and encouraging them to implement safety
  improvements

Ensure sustainability targets and standards are achieved by:

• Knowing what safety excellence looks like and communicate safety with passion and
  Actively engaging with the customer to understand and deliver their key sustainability objectives
• Promoting Sustainable Solutions around all operations, particularly those related to
  efficient management of Waste, Energy and Water
• Leading effective Community Engagement Plans and Skills Programmes where required

Ensure that project plans and schedules are robust and optimise project resources and timescales and are communicated effectively to the project team.

Manage Sub Contractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and progress; providing direct instruction and support as necessary such that contractual arrangements are achieved.

Participate with the management of internal/external design team/consultants to meet project deadlines.

Appreciate the commercial implications and drivers within the construction process and incorporate these into decision making working closely with the Project Surveyor.

Liaise with the Site Managers to ensure they are fully aware of project progress and that they are notified of all financial, specification and time risks, ensuring that all additional work is identified.

Assist with people management and resourcing of the project.

Proactively assist with managing the customer relationship during delivery, including change and decision making to effectively manage expectations.

Ensure the Company and Divisional procedures and policies are followed by the relevant teams, i.e. the Business Management System, including the Process Operating Model.

Ensure Defects and any post completion issues, if applicable, to maintain a positive customer relationship and repeat business performance levels are managed.

Embrace learning and development opportunities.

Live the Balfour Beatty Values.

Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.

Support the delivery of CSUK's Sustainability activities.

Who we're looking for

Previous Project Management experience within the construction industry is essential.

Management of cladding and roofing façade works is desirable.

Management experience within the Education sector is desirable, preferably within a live environment.

Excellent organisation skills and ability to work efficiently under pressure, whilst managing multiple priorities and timelines.

Excellent Stakeholder management skills and experience are essential.

Ability to communicate effectively is required to manage customer relationships (at all levels), 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 and communicate with others to deliver targets are required.

Financial awareness is required to deliver targets, with a desire to continuously improve safety and sustainability performance.

A relevant professional qualification, such as APMP Project Management or MCIOB is desirable.

An appropriate and valid CSCS card is required.

A current Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check certificate

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's 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 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:

- 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

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

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

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, 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 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:

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: [email protected]