Senior Electrical Project Manager

Job Description

About the role

Job Title: Senior Electrical Project Manager

Location: Flexible across Scotland – project-based opportunities across the Central Belt, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Forres, Fort William, Inverness, Nairn and wider Scotland

Company: Balfour Beatty -Scotland (MEP)

Project: Major Building Services, Healthcare, Education and Infrastructure projects across Scotland

Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Join Balfour Beatty Regional Scotland as a Senior Electrical Project Manager and take a leading role in delivering some of our most significant and technically complex projects across Scotland.

This is a flexible, project-based opportunity, and we are open to candidates located across Scotland. Depending on experience and business requirements, you could support a range of major Balfour Beatty projects, including our ASTI programme, the new Lochaber Hospital in Fort William, and other significant building services, healthcare, education and infrastructure projects across the country.

What you’ll be doing

Key Responsibilities

You’ll play a key role in leading the electrical delivery of major projects, working closely with project teams, clients, consultants, subcontractors and supply-chain partners from pre-construction through to commissioning and handover.

Our growing pipeline across Scotland includes opportunities within:

• Lochaber Hospital, Fort William – a major new healthcare development
• ASTI programme – supporting major infrastructure investment across Scotland
• Nairn Academy – Passivhaus new-build secondary school
• Forres and the Highlands – regional construction and building-services programmes
• Other significant Balfour Beatty projects across Scotland

The role provides the opportunity to work across different sectors and projects, offering variety, long-term career development and exposure to some of Scotland’s most important infrastructure and building programmes.

What you’ll be doing

As Senior Electrical Project Manager, you will take ownership of the electrical elements of your project and ensure safe, high-quality and commercially successful delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the electrical delivery of complex building services and infrastructure projects.
• Managing electrical project scope, subcontractors, suppliers and specialist packages.
• Developing and maintaining project programmes, schedules, submittal logs and coordination drawings.
• Working closely with design, commercial, construction and commissioning teams.
• Leading pre-construction, progress, design and technical meetings.
• Managing procurement, material delivery and technical compliance.
• Overseeing quality control, sustainability requirements and loss-prevention measures.
• Building strong relationships with clients, consultants and key project stakeholders.
• Identifying and managing programme, technical and delivery risks.
• Ensuring accurate as-built information and documentation.
• Supporting testing, commissioning, project completion and handover.
• Driving a strong culture of safety, quality and technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle.

Who we’re looking for

You will have:

• A strong background in Electrical Project Management or MEP Project Management within construction, building services or major infrastructure environments.
• Experience delivering large, technically complex projects.
• Healthcare project experience, ideally within hospitals or other complex healthcare environments.
• Experience within education, public-sector, infrastructure or major building projects would also be advantageous.
• Strong electrical and building-services technical knowledge.
• Experience managing specialist subcontractors and supply-chain partners.
• The ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive project and programme performance.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience working through pre-construction, construction, commissioning and handover phases.
• A strong commitment to safety, quality and technical excellence.

You may already be operating as a Senior Electrical Project Manager, or you could be an experienced Electrical Project Manager looking to take the next step in your career on larger and more complex projects.

Why Balfour Beatty?

This is an opportunity to build a long-term career with one of the UK’s leading infrastructure and construction businesses while working on a diverse pipeline of projects across Scotland.

Rather than being restricted to a single scheme, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career across healthcare, education, building services and major infrastructure programmes, including projects such as Lochaber Hospital and ASTI.

If you’re an experienced Electrical Project Manager looking for your next challenge and want to be part of major projects shaping Scotland’s future, we’d love to hear from you.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We’re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10 approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

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