About The Role
Are you passionate about internal communications and stakeholder engagement? Do you want to play a key role in one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects?
We’re looking for a
Project Communications Officer (Internal) to join the Lower Thames Crossing team. You will be responsible for delivering clear, engaging, and impactful communications to project colleagues, helping to embed a ‘one team’ approach, drive productivity, and reinforce key messages across the programme.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference in a high-profile project, working alongside expert teams to ensure internal stakeholders are informed, engaged, and motivated. You’ll help shape the narrative of a project that will transform travel in the region while building your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.
What you'll be doing
- Delivering effective internal communications, engagement activities, and events to unite the project team and align messages with corporate strategy.
- Managing project communication channels and maintaining a regular calendar of activity, ensuring all materials are on brand.
- Keeping communication platforms and content up to date, including SharePoint, digital totems, distribution lists, and presentation packs.
- Writing case studies, award submissions, and other content to showcase project achievements.
- Coordinating photography, filming, and internal site visits.
- Supporting employee recognition initiatives to highlight achievements, behaviours, and operational milestones.
- Collaborating with National Highways, Balfour Beatty, and subcontractor communications teams to share project successes internally and externally.
- Ensuring compliance with brand guidelines and data management standards (including GDPR).
Who we're looking for
- Experience in internal communications, engagement or a similar role
- Strong writing and storytelling skills, with a clear, practical style
- Confidence working face-to-face with a wide range of stakeholders
- The ability to simplify complex information and make it relevant
- A proactive, organised approach and the ability to manage competing priorities
- A team-first mindset — collaborative, supportive and adaptable
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…
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
