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About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Highway Design Engineer to join out Living Places business unit to work in Southampton. The role will involve developing and designing a range of schemes in Southampton from feasibility right through to construction.
This includes delivering Southamptons Active Travel Fund programme of schemes that aim to have a transformative impact on peoples journeys by bus, walking and cycling.
What you'll be doing
As a Highway Designer Engineer, you will have the following accountabilities:
Leadership and Management
* Be responsible for the technical delivery of design works for allocated projects
* Manage other team members working on allocated projects.
* Manage third party inputs into allocated projects.
Communications & Liaison
* Work with the Design Manager in the planning and delivery of design work.
* Liaise with internal BBLP teams (including Project Management, Delivery, Asset Management, Communications) in developing designs and project delivery.
Planning
* Prepare programme information for design projects and liaise with project managers and the programme coordinator to incorporate this information in project and the integrated programme.
Finance
* Prepare estimates of level of design input for projects and liaise with the design manager and project manager to include these in submissions to Southampton City Council.
* Monitor the spend against the agreed activity schedule on allocated projects to ensure expenditure is within agreed values.
Operations
* Deliver design work in line with local and national standards and Balfour Beatty policies and procedures.
* Keep up to date with industry best practice to ensure design is undertaken in line with that.
* Apply the CDM regulations to all design work and ensure designs meet the requirements and principles of the BBLP safety systems
Who we're looking for
You will have the following qualities and experience:
* Proven Experience utilising software including AutoCad and BIM (Building Information Modelling)
* Experience and understanding of on and off the public highway on construction sites.
* Experience of NEC Option 3 contract type
* Experience and understanding of CDM regulations, and risk.
* PC Literate and knowledge of MS suite i.e. Word, Excel, Project etc.
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.
About us
The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.
Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.
We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need, economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.
The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs, encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.
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/
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