Street Lighting Manager - BBUK14203
Balfour Beatty plc
Date: 7 hours ago
City: Lincoln, England
Contract type: Full time
About The Role
We’re looking for an experienced and driven Street Lighting Works Manager to join our team based at Willingham Hall Depot in Lincolnshire. You’ll lead and manage various aspects of street lighting works including maintenance and projects, with responsibility for planning, cost control, quality, safety, and team performance. This is a key leadership role within the business, supporting the successful delivery of contracts and ensuring high standards across all operations.
You’ll act as a vital link between internal teams, the client, and the wider supply chain — ensuring we deliver safe, sustainable, and efficient solutions that exceed expectations.
What you'll be doing
Health, Safety & Environment
We’re looking for a collaborative and experienced leader with a strong background in street lighting or infrastructure construction. You’ll bring a practical, hands-on mindset combined with commercial awareness and a deep understanding of construction site operations.
Skills & Experience
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?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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: [email protected]
We’re looking for an experienced and driven Street Lighting Works Manager to join our team based at Willingham Hall Depot in Lincolnshire. You’ll lead and manage various aspects of street lighting works including maintenance and projects, with responsibility for planning, cost control, quality, safety, and team performance. This is a key leadership role within the business, supporting the successful delivery of contracts and ensuring high standards across all operations.
You’ll act as a vital link between internal teams, the client, and the wider supply chain — ensuring we deliver safe, sustainable, and efficient solutions that exceed expectations.
What you'll be doing
Health, Safety & Environment
- Ensure safety excellence across all activities, with responsibility for RAMs, SSOWs, plant movement and compliance
- Support investigations and proactively manage safe systems of work
- Plan and manage short- and medium-term programmes to meet (and beat) delivery targets
- Coordinate subcontractors and internal teams to maintain timelines, quality, and budget
- Maintain accurate site records and short-interval control logs
- Lead logistics planning across multiple workstreams
- Resolve sequencing conflicts and align project elements with resources and schedules
- Oversee QA processes and technical delivery, manage design changes and non-conformance
- Ensure works meet specification and sign off against quality milestones
We’re looking for a collaborative and experienced leader with a strong background in street lighting or infrastructure construction. You’ll bring a practical, hands-on mindset combined with commercial awareness and a deep understanding of construction site operations.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in street lighting or related civil engineering construction
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Excellent planning, scheduling, and organisational capability
- Understanding of NEC contracts, safety protocols, and quality assurance
- Comfortable managing budgets, resources, and commercial risk
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?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 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…
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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: [email protected]
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