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About The Role
Location: Peterborough/East Anglia. Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water's @one Alliance. The Alliance is a 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, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
As Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area. You’ll provide design support for schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards. You’ll be responsible for checking and reviewing electrical design deliverables produced by other electrical engineers in the @one Alliance and supply chain to ensure the processes and procedures are followed. You’ll coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
Responsibilities
* Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.
* Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates.
* Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings and 3D models to ensure quality, safety and technical standards are adhered to.
* Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
* Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
* Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
* Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers where potential improvements can be implemented.
* Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.
* Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.
* Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their engineering outputs to time and quality standards.
* Drive sustainability and low‑carbon designs.
* Drive offsite build, modular construction and repeatable solutions.
Qualifications
* Engineering degree or equivalent, preferably Chartered or working towards Chartered status.
* Experience of water‑sector assets and capital projects is essential.
* Comfortable demonstrating knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards and codes of practice.
* Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
Benefits
* Smart working – staggered start and finish times, up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro‑rata).
* Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay paternity/partners leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and 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
We believe diversity and inclusion are essential to a 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 can thrive and reach their full potential. We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). We are a Disability Confident Employer and offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements. For more information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
We are committed to fairness and inclusion in our recruitment process. If you have any feedback, please contact candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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