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Our team shape projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Design Engineer and build new futures.

What you'll be doing

To provide ventilation design solutions and to ensure that ventilation design deliverables and procurement of ventilation packages are created and delivered to meet project requirements.

As a/an Design Engineer, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Lead the ventilation & ductwork engineering discipline.
• Create mechanical ventilation design deliverables for both low and high integrity ductwork systems.
• Input to process, heat exchanger, treatment plant and prime mover specifications and design.
• Review and check vendor documentation for mechanical compliance with project specifications.
• Ensure design risks are considered and prepare design risk assessments. Communicate residual design risks to others.
• Provide strong technical support and identify innovative and robust solutions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant technical consultants and suppliers.
• Maintain personal expertise and knowledge to ensure that the business stream is at the forefront of the industry .

You will have the following:

• Competent in the use of 3-D solid modelling software such as solidworks/inventor.
• Able to perform calculations related to heating, ventilation and air conditioning and the fluid flow through such systems.
• Clear focus on collaboration and building relationships with other engineers and project teams to deliver cost effective and acceptable engineering solutions.
• Experience in a broad range of heavy industries such as petrochemical, power generation and nuclear.
• Experience and knowledge of PPMOF (Pre-Assembly, Pre-Fabrication Modularisation and Offsite) construction.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/