Senior Package Manager

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Package Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project.

The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects. LTC is a new road that will connect Kent and Essex through a tunnel beneath the River Thames and will be the greenest road ever built in the UK - creating six times more green space than road. The reliable new route will almost double road capacity over the river east of London to reduce congestion and give millions of people more choice on where they live, work and spend their valuable time.

As a Senior Package Manager, you will provide overall leadership and delivery management for the archaeology package, ensuring archaeological investigations are safely planned, properly resourced and integrated with the wider construction programme.

• Provide visible leadership for health, safety and wellbeing across the archaeology package.
• Coordinate safe interfaces between archaeology, earthworks, vegetation clearance, ecology, utilities, logistics and other site activities.
• Own the integrated archaeology delivery programme and ensure it supports the wider construction programme.
• Develop appropriately resourced short-and medium-term delivery plans.
• Establish clear priorities for archaeological investigation based on construction access and Clear the Way requirements.
• Lead regular programme and production reviews with archaeological contractors and project teams.
• Take overall delivery responsibility for the archaeology package from readiness through fieldwork, completion and handover.
• Maintain clear ownership of actions, constraints, decisions, risks and changes.
• Coordinate delivery of archaeological investigations required to enable construction.
• Ensure the archaeological strategy is translated into executable site activities and appropriately sequenced work fronts.
• Coordinate resolution of constraints affecting evaluation, excavation, test pits and other required archaeological activities.
• Monitor archaeological progress against construction need dates.
• Own and manage the package budget in conjunction with the Commercial team
• Review expenditure, forecast cost to complete and future resource requirements
• Challenge inefficient working arrangements and identify opportunities to improve productivity and value
• Lead day-to-day management of archaeology supply-chain delivery.
• Monitor contractor performance against programme, budget, quality and agreed deliverables.
• Ensure changes to scope are properly controlled, instructed and communicated.
• Manage quality and assurance requirements for the package.
• Work closely with Environmental, Ecology, Lands, Design, Delivery and Communications teams.
• Ensure archaeological delivery remains coordinated with environmental commitments and project requirements.

• Strong experience managing complex construction or infrastructure packages.
• Demonstrable programme, commercial, supply-chain and stakeholder management capability.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary construction interfaces.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret construction programmes and translate them into short-term delivery priorities.
• Practical understanding of NEC3 and/or NEC4 contract management.
• Ability to operate effectively within a complex major-project environment.

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.

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:

• 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