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Role purpose:
Ensure that competent resources are available to deliver design for our projects.
About the role
Role purpose:
Ensure that competent resources are available to deliver design for our projects.
The Design Delivery Lead is responsible for managing a discipline specific delivery team:
* Providing strategy, management and leadership to the team across UK and worldwide offices.
* Promote cooperation between the different teams and wider stakeholders.
* Promote a proactive team culture which ensures shared learning and best practice, good communication, work across boundaries and recognition of success.
What you'll be doing
Key Accountabilities:
* Discipline’s resourcing, management and people / team development, including but not limited to ensuring enough and competent staff for delivering the discipline’s current and future workload
* Managing the discipline’s workload across the interface locations (UK, EDC, other) in collaboration with the local Team Leads.
* The team’s productivity and performance – specifically relating to the design delivery process.
* Profit and Loss across the discipline – acting to ensure that opportunities are maximised through productivity of staff across all locations.
* Ensuring tender inputs produced from the discipline capture keys opportunities and risks and provide realistic pricing estimations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for nominating the Lead Designer and any other required key roles for each project, as well as for general work allocation within their team.
* Ensure a high level of teamwork and cohesion between staff is maintained at all times regardless of location.
* Work in close collaboration with the discipline Chief Engineer for developing and maintaining team’s technical competencies and expertise.
* Set the strategic direction for their discipline in line with department procedures and with support from the Design Senior Leadership Team.
* Support Lead Designer during tender development. Responsible for ensuring the budget, programme and risks for their team’s activities for each tender are adequate and provided in a timely manner.
* Track and report on progress and key issues to the Senior Leadership Team.
* Ensure succession plans are in place for their own role, as well for any other key roles within the team (Principal Design Engineers, CDAE, Technical Experts, etc.).
* Liaise with Project Controls team to ensure all staff relevant information is up to date and facilitate PARAM setup and implementation to support Engineering Managers where required.
* Actively promote and demonstrate Group values and behaviours through day-to-day work.
Who we're looking for
Skills Required:
* Degree or equivalent in Civil, Electrical or Power Engineering disciplines.
* Ideally a corporate member of, or working towards corporate membership of, an Engineering Institution (e.g. ICE, IEEE, IMechE).
* Previous experience in the Power industry, coupled with familiarity with NG, SSE, SPEN and DNO technical specifications.
* Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being able to relate to people at all levels in an organisation and to establish and maintain respect both professionally and personally.
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.
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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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
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.
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/
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Industries
Civil Engineering, Utility System Construction, and Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
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