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About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our
About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Mechanical Design Manager for Devonport and build something to be proud of.
The role can be based from our any UK regional offices across England and Scotland with travel to Devonport required once a month.
Role Purpose
To manage the mechanical design solutions for Devonport. To ensure the integration, technical assurance, compliance, health, safety and sustainability of design and engineering to enable compliant defect free handover for operational service, delivered to programme and budget.
Due to the nature of our projects, we require individuals to hold full work rights within the UK, coupled with being eligible for SC level Security Clearance.
What you'll be doing
As Design Manager, you will have the following accountabilities:
* Manage mechanical design to provide effective design solutions
* Attend site meetings, workshops and surveys
* Ensure effective utilisation and cost recovery of staff in line with resource requirements.
* For direct reports; manage and evaluate competency and capability (SQEP), manage and evaluate training requirements including CPD events, manage and support the development of trainees and graduates.
Design Delivery
* Manage the development and implementation of design proposals, ensuring they meet customer requirements, including budget constraints, presenting proposals to customers and stakeholders.
* Chair and manage design & other technical review workshops & meetings with
stakeholders.
* Manage, create, and review requisition specifications for equipment.
* Manage, create and or review strategies and guidance on the buildability, operability, maintainability, de-constructability of design proposals to operations teams.
* Review and approve manufacturing documentation.
Who we're looking for
* Proven experience at a senior level in delivering engineering services and successfully implementing design strategies.
* Minimum of ten year’s experience.
* Leadership skills are required to deliver design services in a timely manner with a customer specific focus.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners and delivery team members under time pressure.
* Experience of leading a team and/or coaching team members is desirable.
* Numeracy and report writing is a requirement.
* Relevant professional membership with an appropriate institute, e.g. IET
* Excellent IT Skills relevant to the Business Stream are desirable and Microsoft Office is essential.
* Detailed knowledge of codes of practice and other regulatory material, applicable to defence projects.
* Chartership or working towards chartership.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions.
We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life.
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visitwww.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit:https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Construction
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