What you'll be doing

Key Accountabilities:

• Set the strategic direction for their team in line with department procedures, the client and internal service levels whilst retaining full responsibility for the team.


• Actively promote and demonstrate Group values and behaviours through day-to-day work.


• Ensure adherence to Governance processes and the Balfour Beatty Gated lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Closely collaborate with other Design Managers and promote team collaborate with the Designers and Technicians from the other disciplines involved in each project to ensure coordination of different disciplines working on the same projects.


• Actively liaise with the Engineering Managers for the projects the team is working on.


• Work in close collaboration with the Cabling Chief Engineer for developing and maintaining the team’s technical competencies and expertise.


• Work in close collaboration with the Cabling Chief Engineer on any technical challenges affecting tender development and live projects.


• Support Lead Designers during tender development. Responsible for ensuring the budget, programme and risks for their team’s activities for each tender are adequate and provided in a timely manner.


• Ensure delivery of the Cabling scope of works for each project on time and on budget, in compliance with customer requirements, quality standards and safety by design principles.

Who we're looking for

Skills Required:

Preferred:

• Corporate membership (or working towards) of an Engineering Institution (e.g. ICE, IET, IMechE).

Desirable:

• Previous experience multi discipline design coupled with familiarity with NG technical specification requirements


• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being able to relate to people at all levels in an organisation and to establish and maintain respect both professionally and personally.

Why work for us

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

This is your chance to join a growing business with the opportunities to develop and further your career in a multi disciplined specialist environment that will challenge you on a daily basis.

About us

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/