As we experience sustained growth across the business, we are recruiting for a Civils Project Manager to join our team in the Southeast of England, working in West Sussex, Hampshire or Kent. Barhale’s civil engineering and infrastructure projects are varied in value, complexity and duration, from established frameworks to individual bespoke projects and unplanned emergency works. With projects varying from £200k to £10m+, the Project Manager will be essential in the management and delivery of successful civil engineering projects.
The Role
The project manager will deliver multiple ongoing projects while adhering to, and even outperforming, the specified quality and the required programme. He or she will also be responsible for maximising the commercial performance. The role also involves working closely with the estimating department, engineers, and surveyors, prioritising the safe completion of projects and ensuring customer requirements and expectations are always maintained or exceeded.
Key Responsibilities
General Management
- Producing financial forecasts, monitor and control project costs, and preparing monthly performance reports.
- Overseeing projects from design to completion, ensuring all handover documentation is in place.
- Reviewing progress, budget, resources, and planning to keep projects on track.
- Defining and communicating clear scopes of work for all work packages.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and design consultants.
- Chairing weekly site meetings and maintaining accurate records of discussions and actions.
- Developing and managing construction programmes in collaboration with Barhale staff.
- Coordinating and overseeing site investigations during construction.
- Delivering buildable, cost-effective engineering solutions that meet client requirements.
- Ensuring project plans, risk assessments, method statements, waste management plans, and procurement align with company procedures.
- Maintaining detailed site diaries and records.
- Driving cost efficiencies and optimising commercial outcomes.
- Preparing estimates for additional work outside target costs and assisting with tendering new projects.
- Identifying and pursuing potential new clients.
Health, Safety, and Environment
- Leading by example, promoting the highest standards of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) compliance.
- Keeping all HSE-related documentation up to date, producing monthly reports.
- Ensuring subcontractors comply with Barhale’s procedures and processes.
- Liaising with regulatory bodies to ensure compliance with HSG47, HAUC, NRSWA, Chapter 8, and other industry standards.
- Delivering training sessions and briefings.
Caring and investing in you
Our values have been embedded at Barhale for over 40 years and they are our guiding principle regarding how we care and invest in people. Our values are our commitment to being a people-centric company.
As a Gold Investors in People company and a Sunday Times 100 Best Company to Work For, we are committed to investing in people. We are passionate about creating a working environment where people are supported throughout their careers, where people can enjoy security and be part of a company that cares about them.
From the moment you join us, your wellbeing and career aspirations will be supported by;
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Life assurance
- Private medical
- 25 days annual leave in addition to 8 public bank holidays and loyalty days
- 8 hours volunteering
- Employee assistance programme to support your mental, physiological and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
- Company car/green car scheme/car allowance/van (dependent on position)
- Leadership and management training and coaching
- Regular line management engagement and appraisal to support your career progression
- Development supported by internal and externally delivered training
- Flexible working arrangements
- Annual salary review
- Continuous service awards
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About Barhale
Barhale is a business founded on family values having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors including:
- Water
- Transport
- Built environment
- Energy
We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.
Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.
We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including:
- Tunnelling
- MEICA
- Temporary and permanent design
- Steel-fabrication
- Signs (design and fabrication)
- Health & safety equipment and products including PPE
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Why join Barhale?
- As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
- Job security, long-term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
- Broad range of civil engineering and mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
- Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within as we believe this is a key driver to our success
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