About the role
Lead engineering excellence across one of the UK’s most critical rail portfolios
We’re looking for a Regional Engineering Manager to take on a pivotal leadership role within our Rail UK business. This is a senior, influential position for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about safety, assurance, and delivering technically excellent outcomes across complex rail programmes.
As the regional engineering authority, you will shape and lead engineering strategy across the region, ensuring all engineering activities are delivered safely, competently, compliantly and in line with Rail UK engineering strategy. You’ll play a key role in enabling both operational excellence and long‑term strategic success.
What you’ll be doing
* Provide strategic and operational leadership across all engineering disciplines within the region, ensuring teams work cohesively to deliver safe, compliant and assured engineering outcomes.
* Act as the engineering authority, embedding robust engineering governance, assurance and risk management aligned to Rail UK standards and Group Minimum Engineering Expectations.
* Lead engineering assurance, design governance, technical risk and change control across projects, protecting programme, cost and quality outcomes.
* Work closely with the Regional Director and senior leadership teams, ensuring engineering requirements are fully integrated into business plans, bids, project strategies and commercial decisions.
* Oversee regional resource and capability planning, ensuring the right skills are in place to support work winning, mobilisation, delivery and project close‑out.
* Champion capability development, progression and succession planning, building a strong, engaged and future‑ready regional engineering community.
* Provide senior technical input into work winning and bid governance, supporting robust, commercially sound engineering solutions.
* Drive value engineering, innovation, digital engineering and sustainability, improving affordability, competitiveness and overall business performance.
* Foster a collaborative, high‑performing engineering culture, aligned with the wider UK Engineering community and Professional Heads of Discipline.
Who we’re looking for
You’ll be an accomplished engineering leader with significant experience in rail engineering environments, able to operate confidently at senior stakeholder level. You’ll bring:
* Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills.
* Proven experience across rail engineering disciplines, technical governance and assurance.
* Sound judgement and the ability to balance safety, quality, cost and programme priorities.
* A collaborative approach to stakeholder and customer management, including clients, regulators and design partners.
* A clear commitment to safety, quality and continuous improvement.
* Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent) – preferred.
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.
* 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 works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
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, visit www.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.
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