Portfolio Director - Energy Infrastructure
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty is helping deliver the infrastructure behind the UK’s energy transition, and our business in Scotland is growing.
We’re looking for a Portfolio Director to lead a portfolio of major energy infrastructure projects worth around £500m, taking overall responsibility for delivery, commercial performance and our relationships with key customers and partners.
You’ll join a business with the scale, capability and expertise to deliver complex infrastructure, while having the opportunity to shape a major portfolio, build high-performing teams and play a leading role in the continued growth of our energy business in Scotland.
What you'll be doing
Balfour Beatty is helping deliver the infrastructure behind the UK’s energy transition, and our business in Scotland is growing.
We’re looking for a Portfolio Director to lead a portfolio of major energy infrastructure projects worth around £500m, taking overall responsibility for delivery, commercial performance and our relationships with key customers and partners.
You’ll join a business with the scale, capability and expertise to deliver complex infrastructure, while having the opportunity to shape a major portfolio, build high-performing teams and play a leading role in the continued growth of our energy business in Scotland.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the successful delivery of a c.£500m portfolio of major energy infrastructure projects, with accountability for safety, operational, commercial and financial performance.
- Provide strategic direction across the portfolio, ensuring projects are set up and delivered with strong governance, controls and clear accountability.
- Lead, develop and empower a high-performing team of Project Directors, Project Managers, construction leaders and functional specialists.
- Build strong, long-term relationships with key customers, partners and stakeholders, acting as a senior point of contact across the portfolio.
- Maintain oversight of commercial performance, including budgets, contracts, risk and opportunity, procurement and supply-chain performance.
- Work closely with project and functional leadership to drive consistent performance, share best practice and resolve challenges across multiple projects and locations.
- Support the continued growth of the business, contributing to bids, tenders, negotiations and the development of future delivery strategies.
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of leading major energy, power, utilities or infrastructure portfolios, ideally within HVDC, electricity transmission or complex civil engineering environments.
You’ll have significant multi-project leadership experience, with the ability to lead geographically dispersed projects and develop high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
You’ll be commercially astute and comfortable managing substantial budgets, contracts, risk and opportunity, procurement and supply-chain performance, while maintaining strong governance and project controls.
Strong customer and stakeholder skills will be key. You’ll have the credibility to operate with senior clients, partners and consortium members.
You’ll also bring experience of shaping operational strategy and contributing to bids, tenders and negotiations, with the flexibility to travel regularly between Glasgow, Inverness, the Western Isles and other Scottish project locations.
Why work for us
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:
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
We’re looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong track record of leading major energy, power, utilities or infrastructure portfolios, ideally within HVDC, electricity transmission or complex civil engineering environments.
You’ll have significant multi-project leadership experience, with the ability to lead geographically dispersed projects and develop high-performing multidisciplinary teams.
You’ll be commercially astute and comfortable managing substantial budgets, contracts, risk and opportunity, procurement and supply-chain performance, while maintaining strong governance and project controls.
Strong customer and stakeholder skills will be key. You’ll have the credibility to operate with senior clients, partners and consortium members.
You’ll also bring experience of shaping operational strategy and contributing to bids, tenders and negotiations, with the flexibility to travel regularly between Glasgow, Inverness, the Western Isles and other Scottish project locations.
Why work for us
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…
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
