Street Works Permits Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty (Urban Fox) has an exciting opportunity for a Street Works Permits Manager.

The Permits Manager is responsible for leading and managing all permitting activities across Urban Fox’s live deployment portfolio, ensuring full compliance with Street Works legislation, permit scheme requirements, and Local Authority expectations. Operating under Urban Fox’s Statutory Undertaker status, the role is accountable for end‑to‑end permit governance, contractor oversight, and construction administration. Urban Fox retains full legal accountability for all permits submitted under its SWA code, regardless of whether delivery is undertaken by contractors.

Permitting Strategy & Governance

• Develop and implement the Urban Fox permitting strategy across all regions
• Own and maintain Street Works Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Define and enforce permit quality standards and submission requirements
• Ensure compliance with NRSWA and Local Authority permit schemes

Permit Lifecycle Management

• Oversee all stages of the permit lifecycle including:
• Early engagement with Local Authorities
• Applications, variations, extensions and closures
• Notices, reinstatement compliance and final completion
• Ensure no works commence without an approved permit
• Maintain real-time oversight of all live permits across the deployment portfolio

Contractor Management & Assurance

• Manage contractor permit teams operating under the Urban Fox SWA code
• Establish and enforce contractor KPIs, including:
• Submission accuracy and quality
• Timeliness of applications
• Compliance with permit conditions
• Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) performance
• Drive consistent contractor performance through governance and review
• Ensure robust oversight in line with Urban Fox’s retained legal accountability

External

• Local Highway Authorities
• Contractors and Delivery Partners
• Traffic Management Providers
• Utility Providers (e.g. DNOs) Strong knowledge of NRSWA and UK Street Works legislation
• Proven experience managing permit schemes (Street Manager preferred)
• Experience supporting or coordinating delivery programmes or construction projects

Desirable

• Strong contractor management and performance oversight experience
• Experience working across multi-site or multi-region programmes
• Strong stakeholder engagement with Local Authorities
• Highly organised with strong planning and coordination capability
• Strong analytical, governance, and reporting capability

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?

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 Investments is an international infrastructure investor operating in the UK and US. We develop and finance both public and private infrastructure projects whilst operating a portfolio of long-term infrastructure assets, with a portfolio of PPP concessions in healthcare facilities, highways, energy and transmission, student accommodation, residential regeneration and private housing.

In the US, our portfolio includes Balfour Beatty Communities, a subsidiary dedicated to developing and operating privatised military housing, student and multifamily housing. We also operate Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, a leading provider of large capital project financing, development and construction solutions for the higher education market.

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