Engineering Manager - Balfour Beatty Highways -South Mimms/Dartford/Birmingham London, England
Job description
Engineering Manager - SMA - Covering the Places of Relative Safety Project (PRS)
The project is to upgrade existing smart motorways to include a greater number of places of relative safety (PRS) along the Strategic Road Network for National Highways
You will provide strategic engineering and design management, strong leadership and control of a multi-disciplinary team comprising engineering resources at all levels. Ensuring full design integration between all design disciplines is achieved and assessed for build ability aspects during both the development stage and construction stage of the scheme.
Facilitate strong links with other teams within and external to the project to ensure the efficient delivery of the Project .
What you'll be doing
As an Engineering Manager you will have the following accountabilities:
Supporting the overall engineering strategy for the business and BB clients. Engage with the Supply Chain, Clients, Designers and other framework Delivery Partners to maximise knowledge share to provide efficiencies that will assist National Highways in achieving the National Highways Roads Delivery Programme.
Utilise engineering team specialists to provide on-site training for new recruits/site engineers.
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
- Experience of overseeing the management of design teams, and engineering support function teams.
- Experience in Design Co-ordination and Temporary works design.
- Provides technical support to the project team with the capability to resolve complex technical problems in a timely manner as and when they arise.
- Identifies and champions lessons learned to ensure continual improvement in the business
- Detailed understanding of highways design details and temporary works.
- Construction experience required to ensure build ability aspects are considered at all times during design reviews.
Why work for us
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.
lf you are still interested, then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.
An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -
- An attractive / negotiated salary
- 42 core base hours per week
- Car or car allowance
- Annual company bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave
- Pension savings schemes
- A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.
About us
Balfour Beatty Highways delivers major schemes including smart 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 our customer, the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, delivering net carbon reductions and social value to the communities within which we work.
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/
Job Reference: BBUK03493
