Package Manager, Engineering

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Package Manager to join our £1.2 billion Lower Thames Crossing project, consisting of 43 bridges, including viaducts, 17km of complex Highways construction, complex utility diversions, and a scheme‑wide, industry‑leading approach to carbon reduction.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work and play.

As a Package Manager, you will provide management, leadership and control of a multi‑disciplinary team comprising Sub Agents, Section Engineers and Site Engineers.

• Health, Safety & Wellbeing:
  Maintain a safe working environment by enforcing health and safety regulations, best practices, and adherence to the Construction Phase Plan.
• Programme:
  Plan all self‑delivered works and coordinate/monitor the programme for subcontract/3rd party works.
• Project Management:
  Coordinate with subcontractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth workflow and timely project delivery.
• Quality Assurance:
  Lead the management of quality, setting the required quality standards and ensuring the project team (foreman, engineers, subcontractors etc.)
• Community:
  Provide relevant information to the communications team to ensure all stakeholders and the public are informed of the ongoing works in accordance with the communications plan.
• Environmental Sustainability & Carbon:
  Liaise with the Environmental Manager to ensure compliance with the Project’s Environmental Management Plan and carbon requirements for the scheme.
• Reporting:
  Provide regular progress reports to senior management, highlighting any deviations from the project plan and proposing corrective actions.
• Cost Management:
  Own the budget and maintain strict management and control of costs.
• Procurement:
  Produce technical scope for invitation to tenders and complete the tender return assessments for all subcontracts.
• Design Management:
  Attend design and RFI meetings with the Consultant and subcontractors and manage any change that arises as a result.
• Handover:
  Work with the Quality Engineer to ensure handover requirements are clearly defined and understood by all.
• Leadership:
  Manage and mentor Section/Site Engineers/Sub Agents for your scope of works.

• Proven experience in a similar role, preferably on large‑scale infrastructure projects
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Knowledge of construction regulations and best practices.
• Experience with NEC 3 / 4 contracts
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Engineering or Construction Management qualification
• Full UK driver’s licence
• A fit for work medical
• CSCS
• Pre‑Start drug & alcohol test
• BPSS Security Clearance (this will be completed by the project Security Manager but will require the candidate to supply a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check)

• 42 core base hours per week
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee benefits (discounts, exclusive offers etc.)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available via our  portal.

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.

• 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 including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

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 order book and a positive pipeline of…