EmployersSenior hiring and moves

Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty was advertising 13 leadership roles at the weekly sweep on 26 October 2026, and 2 named senior moves into or out of the business were reported in the last six months.

Leadership roles advertised

13 leadership roles open at the weekly sweep on 26 October 2026: 12 added in the 28 days to that sweep and 12 since the index began counting on 17 September 2026. These are the director, head-of and chief seats the index headline counts, in operations, commercial, pre-construction, technical, planning and safety.

Function	Open now	Added, since 17 September 2026
Operations and delivery	5	8
Commercial	4	0
Safety, quality and sustainability	2	2
Other leadership	2	1
Pre-construction and work winning	0	1

The index counts seats, not titles or links: the roles themselves are on Balfour Beatty's own careers pages.

Senior moves, last six months

Named executive appointments reported in the UK construction trade press and the UK regional business press, each counted once, on the date of its first report, and linked to the report it was counted from. Non-executive, board and chair appointments are left out.

Joined Balfour Beatty

Reported	Name	Role	Joined from	Source
1 September 2026	Emma Loxton	Head of Strategy	McKinsey	Construction Enquirer
30 June 2026	Angus Murray	Chief Executive / Boss of Major Projects arm	Not reported	Construction Enquirer

Many senior moves are never announced, and a report names the previous employer about one time in four, so departures are undercounted.

Contract awards, last twelve months

No contract award to Balfour Beatty has been picked up from Find a Tender or Contracts Finder in the last twelve months. Much work is let through frameworks and private clients, which do not always reach the public notices.

Major programmes

Balfour Beatty is one of the main firms on Sizewell C, Hinkley Point C and the Lower Thames Crossing. Those pages set out the programme, the seats it creates and the live picture across all its firms.

What this means for a leader

For a leader considering Balfour Beatty, the business is both advertising leadership seats and making named appointments, which usually means a senior team being built out or reshaped. The useful questions are where a seat reports, whether it is new or a replacement, and who else has joined recently.

Common questions

Is Balfour Beatty hiring senior leaders?

Balfour Beatty was advertising 13 leadership roles at the weekly sweep on 26 October 2026. 12 were added since the index began counting on 17 September 2026. The largest function is operations and delivery, with 5 open.

Who has joined or left Balfour Beatty at senior level recently?

2 named senior appointments into Balfour Beatty were reported in the last six months. The most recent: Emma Loxton, Head of Strategy (1 September 2026); Angus Murray, Chief Executive / Boss of Major Projects arm (30 June 2026).

Where do these figures come from?

The role counts come from the weekly sweep of employers' own careers pages behind the Senior Hiring Index. The moves are the named executive appointments counted by the Construction Leadership Moves Index, each linked to its report. The awards are public notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The page is rebuilt from those sources every few hours.

Using these figures

Quote them freely, with attribution to Lechley and a link to this page. Every employer with a page is listed under employers, and the market as a whole is on the Senior Hiring Index and the Construction Leadership Moves Index.