Logistics Manager

Job Description

About the role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty.

Location – Fort Augustus – Isle of Skye

By joining our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Logistics Manager you will take full responsibility for overseeing and managing project logistics while supporting Project Managers with the logistical coordination necessary to deliver sections of a larger scale project.

You will:

• Provide leadership, control, and management of all project logistics requirements.
• Manage contractors and suppliers, ensuring their seamless integration into the project to effectively deliver and oversee all site logistics.
• Ensure that customer specifications, including safety, quality, and timelines, are met, while addressing all risks and ensuring complete fulfilment of project objectives.

What you’ll be doing

• Overall responsibility for the successful management of the project logistics required to support the day to day delivery of construction activities across the project including traffic movement and the scheduling of teams under your direct control.
• Set in place processes and procedures for the management of logistic items including welfare facilities, consumables, plant and equipment and the management of these processes and procedures including KPI reporting.
• Be aware of budget, cost control and cost recovery, ensuring that expenditure is in line with the contract budget and that resources are utilised efficiently.
• Procure multiple packages to meet logistical requirements, including negotiating deals with supply chain partners.
• Plan all logistical activities over the project life cycle.
• Manage the mobilisation and demobilisation of multiple welfare facilities at project construction compounds, including procurement and programming of utility service connection.
• Liaise with multiple site teams to understand requirements and put solutions in place, including liaison with Project Coordinators managing site security, traffic management and emergency services.
• Engage with and manage stakeholders including local highway authorities and port authorities.
• Organise and update traffic management plans.
• Ensure all team members are fully inducted and carry out role specific requirements, identifying opportunities for improvement.

Who we’re looking for Essential Qualities and Experience:

• Proven track record in managing logistical and operational delivery within a construction environment.
• Experience working across a variety of project types.
• Clear ability to communicate and enforce safe systems of work and experience in implementing system improvements effectively.
• Capable of taking ownership of tasks, clearly communicating outcomes, and encouraging team members to do the same while ensuring tasks are carried out efficiently and key messages are cascaded effectively.
• Ability to perform efficiently under pressure and meet deadlines, with a flexible approach to managing a variable and demanding workload.
• Team player and effective team leader with the ability to work both independently and competently without supervision.
• Confident decision maker who considers available options and adapts solutions when dealing with issues.
• Excellent problem solving and solution oriented mindset.

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?

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times.
• 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/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

We are 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.