Project Manager - Engineering

Job Description

Join Biffa and play a key role in delivering major engineering projects across the UK, ensuring safety, efficiency, and compliance while driving cost-effective solutions that meet client and regulatory expectations.

A quick look at the role.

National role managing major Capex projects across the UK, ensuring delivery within cost, time, and quality targets. Work closely with site engineering managers, site managers, and the H&S team. Oversee contractors and consultants to ensure project success, with a strong focus on civil engineering/construction.

This is a Monday to Friday role, with occasional nights away from home.

Your core responsibilities.

• Follow all safety policies, procedures, and legislation to maintain a safe working environment for yourself and others.
• Develop cost-effective engineering solutions, ensuring projects align with client expectations while selecting appropriate contract forms to minimize company risk.
• Oversee contractors, ensuring all work is completed to the required standards, specifications, and safety regulations.
• Provide technical and project management support for new, operational, and closed sites across the UK, ensuring projects follow the company’s Project Management System.
• Engage consultants when necessary, effectively managing their input to minimize risk and cost exposure while ensuring successful project delivery.
• Monitor, control, and report on project budgets, ensuring capital expenditure stays within approved company financial models and authorization limits.
• Work with planners, regulatory bodies, and other authorities to negotiate and secure company interests while maintaining compliance and positive relationships.
• Ensure all projects comply with relevant legislation, including CDM regulations, and obtain necessary licenses, permits, and consents to meet development needs.

Requirements

Our essential requirements.

• Engineering degree and NEBOSH General Certificate.
• Proven project delivery within cost, quality, and time in waste management or related fields.
• Experience working with planning and regulatory bodies.
• Strong problem-solving and prioritisation skills.
• Willing to travel, work flexible hours, and respond to emergencies when needed.

Benefits

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary.
• Car allowance.
• Private medical insurance.
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – Because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Life cover.

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.