What you'll be doing

• Project Handover: Lead the effective and efficient handover process for Highways projects within your designated region, ensuring all aspects of certification are completed in a timely manner.


• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with the Highways Leadership Team, Production Hub, and project teams to streamline handover processes.


• Stakeholder Engagement: Maintain strong relationships with internal teams, clients, local councils, utilities, designers, and subcontractors to ensure smooth project transitions.


• Risk & Quality Management: Liaise with Group Risk, Audit, and Quality functions to uphold project standards and ensure compliance with certification bodies.


• Regional Oversight: Be the point of contact for Highways PDs (Project Directors) in your region, providing guidance and leadership on all handover-related matters.


• Reporting & Coordination: Regularly report progress to the Head of Mobilisation and Handover, ensuring transparency and consistency across regional projects.

Who we're looking for

• Strong background in highways project delivery and handover processes.


• Proven experience in managing multiple stakeholders, including clients, local authorities, subcontractors, and design teams.


• Ability to work under pressure, ensuring deadlines are met and projects are delivered to the highest standards.


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with both internal teams and external clients effectively.


• A solid understanding of certification standards, quality control, and risk management in highways projects.


• Flexibility and a proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to adapt to changing project requirements.


• Willingness to travel across the UK as part of this shared-service role.

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

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

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: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com