Operations Manager - Piling Plant

About The Role

Are you an experienced operational leader with a passion for delivering excellence in Ground Engineering? Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering is looking for an Operations Manager - Piling Plant in Bottesford to lead our on-site delivery teams, ensure safe and efficient project execution, and maintain strong relationships with our customers. This is a key leadership role where you’ll drive performance, inspire your teams, and support the continued growth and innovation of our business.

• Lead operational teams to deliver projects safely, on time and within cost and quality targets.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, ensuring needs and expectations are consistently met.
• Support work-winning activities by contributing operational insight to tender proposals.
• Ensure projects are fully planned, resourced and aligned with business strategy.
• Drive financial performance, identifying and managing risk to achieve or exceed targets.
• Promote innovation, continuous improvement and best practice across the business.
• Champion compliance with our Business Management System and support internal audit requirements.
• Lead the digitisation strategy within the Business Unit.
• Uphold and role‑model Balfour Beatty values with a strong focus on Zero Harm and sustainability.

• Strong experience in piling, driven piling, ground improvement or ground engineering operations.
• A recognised engineering qualification or relevant operational experience.
• CSCS and SMSTS qualifications (or willingness to obtain), suitable for occasional direct site supervision.
• Proven leadership capability with excellent people‑management and coaching skills.
• Clear, confident communication and strong presentation abilities.
• Commercial awareness and experience managing budgets, risks and opportunities.
• A results‑driven mindset with a passion for problem solving and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative approach, working openly with customers, suppliers and colleagues to achieve shared goals.
• A strong customer focus, always seeking to improve service and build long‑term relationships.
• The ability to plan, organise and prioritise effectively to deliver consistent operational results.
• Flexibility, adaptability and positivity in a changing environment.

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 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…

Asset & Technology Solutions provides innovative, safe and sustainable solutions to the Balfour Beatty projects across the UK. Our wide range of equipment and services includes HGV’s, tower and crawler cranes, piling equipment, CCTV and security services, survey services and drones, suction excavators, sweepers, modular accommodation and much more.

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  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://disabil

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: candidate recruit