Programme Optimisation Manager

Location

South East England | United Kingdom

Job description

About the role

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.

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Programme Optimisation Manager as part of the Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based in South Mimms, Leatherhead or Dartford.

Why This Role Matters:

• By engaging with teams, optimizing programs, and maintaining open lines of communication, you play a pivotal role in ensuring smooth operations on the M25 network. Your work directly impacts the efficiency of our projects and the satisfaction of stakeholders, including the public who rely on our services.

If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy the challenge of optimizing processes and plans, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on infrastructure management.

You will play a key role in improving how we plan and manage projects on the M25 network. Your responsibilities will include:

• Advocating and aligning CP/CPS investment priorities with our optimization efforts.
• Building relationships with stakeholders to gain support for our optimization strategies.
• Ensuring data quality and conducting checks to make sure our plans are accurate.

This role is a perfect blend of technical acumen, data analytics, and stakeholder coordination aimed at ensuring seamless road space booking and network management within the Area 5 network, especially on the M25.

You will also handle other tasks related to program optimization, data management, and problem resolution. Your ability to adapt to evolving needs and maintain composure under pressure will be put to good use.

What you'll be doing

• Lead our programme optimization platform, overseeing how we collect data, plan projects, and review our plans.
• Make sure the data we use meets our standards and is suitable for our planning tools.
• Adapt our planning tools as needed to keep them effective.
• Train and support teams in using our planning software, making sure they handle data well.
• Support other optimization or planning processes when required.
• Connecting with contract teams, maintenance teams, and third-party stakeholders. Discuss upcoming projects and programs, ensuring alignment and clear communication.
• Dedicate time to recording updates and changes to programs and plans. Attention to detail is crucial to maintaining accurate records and keeping our optimization tools up to date.
• Sit down with your teams to outline optimization strategies. Explain and brief them on the current optimized plans, gathering valuable feedback from those on the ground.
• Meet with various teams within the organization, such as planning, asset management, structures, design, and others. These meetings provide a platform to answer questions, address concerns, and ensure alignment on priorities and needs.
• Put your expertise to work by running optimizations within our system. This hands-on task allows you to fine-tune plans and programs to maximize efficiency and minimize disruptions.

Who we're looking for

Qualifications (Essentials):

• IT certification with advanced data management skills and the ability to present data clearly.
• Experience with planning and optimization methods.
• Strong problem-solving skills, along with excellent communication and organizational abilities.
• Proven ability to work with internal and external partners in a project management environment.

Desirable:

• Technical or engineering qualifications or operational experience, with a focus on improving systems and processes.
• Familiarity with planning tools like Aconex, Business Collaborator, Power BI, or similar reporting systems.
• Commitment to completing tasks, strong planning and organization skills, and the ability to solve problems independently.
• Proficiency in GIS for managing and analysing spatial data.

Capabilities We Are Looking For:

• Strong data management and analysis skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships with various teams.
• Proficiency in planning and project management tools.
• Adaptability to evolving operational needs.
• Prior experience in optimizing processes and projects.

Why work for us

CPS is a joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsR alis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over 100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other highways project can offer.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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