PDA Linear and Street Lighting Portfolio Manager

About the role

PDA Linear & Street Lighting Portfolio Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Location:Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms

We have an exciting opportunity for a PDA Linear & Street Lighting Portfolio Manager to join our
Connect Plus Services (CPS)team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project.

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment, alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.

If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.

As a Portfolio Manager for PDA, responsible for delivering a £13m annual programme of linear and street lighting asset replacement projects across the M25 – one of the UK’s busiest and most complex motorway networks

Leading a team of Project Managers, you will oversee around 60 projects each year, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards. The role covers the full project lifecycle, from early investigation and design development through to construction and handover, working closely with contractors, stakeholders and the client to achieve predictable and cost-effective delivery.

Key responsibilities / duties:

• Monthly reporting schedule which includes PSR, CPM. Ensure owners are identified for required inputs and they complete in required timescales and are suitable to review by the relevant delivery lead.
• Lead AMFP and AAMR process to ensure required interfaces, inputs and deadlines are achieved. Focus on ensuring the AMFP commitments on the PDA team are well understood and achievable.
• Ensuring Project Manager’s attend monthly forecast meetings and provide robust updates which align with programme. Give guidance to the PM’s on the fundamental principles of forecasting and ensuring a consistent approach across the team. Develop Income and cost profiles, overseeing and challenging the Project Managers input.
• Manage the Project Manager’s through the gateway process to ensure the governance is complied with and well understood. There should be a degree of consistency added to the presentation packs compiled and attendees for key disciplines are represented.
• Monitor the workload of PM’s and support project reallocations where appropriate or additional support.
• Stakeholder Management - Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Asset Team and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the project delivery objectives, to report on and review performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
• Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing timely and accurate reports, and creating and maintaining specified records including change management.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree, and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Demonstrate high standards of visible safety leadership. Ensure that the required levels of safety performance are delivered, and that behavioural safety is promoted throughout the teams, based on the principles of Making Safety Personal. Ensure that the safety culture within the team is strong.
• Ensure all projects within the asset portfolio comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies. Prepare monthly reports on portfolio delivery, presenting these to…