Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking an employee communications coordinator to work in Dallas, TX. This communications coordinator position supports, develops and distributes content geared at keeping our employees informed, engaged and inspired through a holistic employee communications approach. Using a variety of channels, the communications content coordinator supports the creation of content that captures engagement and targets information to employee audiences. The primary focus for this position is employee communications, with opportunities to support efforts across other communications disciplines (social media, campaigns and national marketing) to increase content leverage, message visibility and content pipeline. This position reports to the Senior Director of Communications.

Essential Functions

The employee communications coordinator will be responsible for the following priorities:

• Collaborate with broader communications team (including Group communications team when applicable), local marketing teams and functional department leaders to identify, develop and execute communications needs
• Coordinate and execute on all workflow and layout processes for bi-monthly digital employee newsletter, including but not limited to collect and/or edit articles, images and other supporting assets from content contributors, as well as write feature articles, headlines and subheads as assigned. This will include basic sizing and cropping of images, sourcing brand applicable stock imagery and creation of simple supporting graphics
• Ensure approval cycle process, including incorporation of edits and comments
• Assist in the set up and distribution of other employee communications such as memos and employee event and meeting invitations
• Assist and support the production of leadership virtual (MS Teams) all employee meetings, including share presentations, videos, monitor Q&A and other ‘back of house’ activities
• Maintain/update campaign tags and distribution lists in employee communications platform
• Create weekly line up of screensaver content deployed to employees’ computers
• Create gifs for use on various employee communications channels
• Create digital signage content published to kiosks at offices and jobsites
• Perform and coordinate other activities as assigned

The Candidate Profile

• Is a knock your socks off writer
• Is naturally engaging and quick-witted
• Can spot a typo or grammar error a mile away and is a stickler for the details
• Works very well in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and can juggle priorities
• Capable of thinking creatively and analytically
• Excels at planning and project management and stays one step ahead of what is needed
• Keeps on top of employee communications trends, best practices and tools and proactively brings new ideas to the table
• Has figured out how to use AI responsibly in a way that enhances work productivity
• Able to deal with concepts and complex issues comfortably; is seen as intellectually sharp, capable and agile
• Energetic about challenges, self-motivated, resourceful, detail-oriented and able to focus on long-term objectives and push for results
• Wakes up each morning with a sense of purpose and pride in their work and has innate drive to do better
• Able to build constructive and effective relationships, put others at ease and establish rapport; relate to all kinds of people at all levels inside and outside the organization

Education and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing or a related field
• New graduate – 5 years of experience
• Ideally has relatable marketing or communication internships in a B2B setting
• Familiar with Adobe software
• Having basic graphic design and video/gif creation skills is a plus but not required

Other Requirements

• Must be based in Dallas, TX and willing to work in office or on a two-day remote hybrid schedule
• Open to travel if necessary

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.