Senior Pipeline Infrastructure Engineer – Balfour Beatty plc – East Anglia / Peterborough
Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water’s one Alliance, a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, we are taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions such as wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We set global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empower our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
What you’ll be doing
* Lead the review and acceptance of design deliverables, including drawings, models, and calculations, ensuring quality, safety, and compliance with technical standards.
* Provide specialist input into the design of trunk mains, pressurised and gravity sewers, pumping stations, and associated civil and hydraulic structures.
* Support programme delivery by coordinating with Project Design Managers, Principal Infrastructure Engineers, and construction teams.
* Contribute to CDM and commissioning strategy meetings, ensuring health, safety, and welfare are prioritised in design.
* Offer technical expertise in responding to construction queries and design changes.
* Promote innovation, sustainability, and digital design practices to enhance performance and reduce carbon.
* Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering best practice and professional development across the team.
* Collaborate with cross‑disciplinary teams to deliver efficient, cost‑effective, and environmentally responsible solutions.
Qualifications
* A degree in Civil, Mechanical, or a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
* Significant design experience in sewerage systems, trunk water mains, pressurised and gravity pipelines, and associated civil/hydraulic works.
* Strong understanding of pipe materials, hydraulics, pump stations, reinforced concrete structures, and pipeline protection methods.Knowledge of inter‑related engineering disciplines and experience working within a Design & Build environment.
* Proven ability to lead technical reviews, manage risk in design, and ensure CDM compliance.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
* A track record of mentoring and supporting engineers in their professional growth.
* A commitment to innovation, sustainability, and delivering solutions that protect and enhance the environment.
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‑rated).
* Family‑friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.
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. We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
Equal Opportunity
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 information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
Contact
If you have any feedback on our recruitment process, please share it with us at candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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