Communications Specialist

Balfour Beatty•Dallas, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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). Summary Balfour Beatty is seeking a communications specialist to join our team in Dallas, TX. This is a hybrid position that requires working three days per week in the office and two days per week at home. The communications specialist position 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 specialist creates 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing or a related field
5-plus years of relevant experience
Familiar with Adobe software
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

Nice To Haves

Having basic graphic design and video/gif creation skills is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

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
Employ the creative content development process to produce compelling copy for a broad array of channels and audiences
Be able to turn complex technical topics into approachable and relatable content that appeals to our various stakeholder audiences
Produce 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
Edit and proof own work to ensure accuracy and alignment with brand style guide; work through revisions with various stakeholders to deliver approved content on deadline
Partner with Employee Communications Manager on the creation/distribution of other employee communications such as memos and employee events and meeting invitations
Maintain and update all relevant information in employee communications platform, including saved distribution lists, tags, etc.
Work with team producing leadership’s virtual (MS Teams) all employee meetings, including share presentations, videos, monitor Q&A and other ‘back of house’ activities
Create and deploy weekly line up of screensaver content
Create gifs for use on various employee communications channels
Create digital signage content published to tvs at offices and jobsites
Perform and/or coordinate other activities as assigned