Contracts Manager - Balvac

About The Role

Job Title: Contracts Manager

Location: Flexible base: Leeds / Warrington / Derby (with regular site presence across the UK)

Company: Balfour Beatty – Balvac

Are you an experienced Contracts Manager looking to take ownership of complex, high‑value projects and make a real impact on safety, sustainability and delivery excellence? Join Balfour Beatty – Balvac, our specialist strengthening, repair and refurbishment business, where you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering multiple projects across the UK while building long‑term client relationships.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for the end‑to‑end delivery of multiple projects, from work‑winning through to completion. You’ll balance commercial responsibility, operational leadership and customer focus, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards. This role is office‑based from Leeds, Warrington or Derby, with regular time spent on site depending on project needs.

Responsibilities

• Managing the delivery and performance of multiple projects, including full P&L responsibility
• Leading safety with passion and credibility, driving our Zero Harm culture
• Building and maintaining strong customer relationships, managing change and expectations throughout delivery
• Ensuring compliance with Balfour Beatty procedures, policies and governance
• Managing external consultants, subcontractors and supply chain partners
• Driving operational excellence through planning, risk management, project controls and Lean principles
• Championing sustainability, including waste, energy and water efficiency
• Using BIM, Lean Visual Management and digital tools to optimise delivery and safety
• Providing clear, robust reporting on progress, risk and performance to senior stakeholders
• Supporting repeat business and long‑term client partnerships through excellent delivery

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Contracts or Project Management within the construction sector
• Strong leadership capability with the confidence to influence, motivate and lead teams
• Excellent communication and relationship‑management skills
• Sound commercial and financial awareness
• Experience (or strong understanding) of Lean construction principles
• Knowledge of contract conditions and change control processes
• A valid CSCS card
• Relevant professional or technical qualifications (desirable)

Why Join Balvac

• Work on technically challenging and varied projects across the UK
• Flexible office base with a mix of office, site and stakeholder engagement
• Be part of a business that genuinely values innovation, customer focus and collaboration
• Strong career development opportunities within Balfour Beatty
• A culture built around safety, sustainability and continuous improvement

Professional and Personal Development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career. We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

• 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

About Us

Balvac is a leading specialist structural repair, strengthening and refurbishment contractor and wholly owned subsidiary of the Balfour Beatty Group. We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation. Our core business is the structural repair, strengthening, protection and refurbishment of existing civil and building structure across the UK. We are active in highways, rail infrastructure, power, including nuclear licensed sites and industrial facilities. Specialist capabilities include: concrete repair, including wet and dry spray concrete, crack injection, leak sealing injection, structural strengthening including the use of FRP composite materials, corrosion protection and cathodic protection, post-tensioning to bridges, tanks and nuclear reactor vessels, concrete carriageway rehabilitation using vacuum‑assisted void grouting and slab realignment techniques.

To ensure we deliver on our diversity and inclusion commitments, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, and we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). We are also a Disability Confident Employer, committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We provide a disability interview if applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Legal and EEO Statements

This role is open to all qualified applicants. All employment decisions will be made following the Equality Act 2010 and other relevant legislation. Balfour Beatty welcomes and encourages applications from all backgrounds.

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