About The Role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Design Manager to join their Power Transmission and Distribution team in Derby.

Role Purpose

The Senior Design Manager is accountable for a portfolio of Power Transmission and Distribution Engineering projects and their design delivery, management and engineering governance, from initial opportunity, through bid development and contract negotiation, mobilisation and delivery, and finally project completion and archiving.

They will lead, manage, mentor and develop a team of Design and Engineering Managers, Assistant Engineering Managers, Graduates, Apprentices and Trainees, working closely with the Project Director or Head Of OPS and building positive engagement with internal and external stakeholders to manage scope, risks and programme of their portfolio of project designs.

The Senior Design Manager has responsibility for the way the team works, leading the selection of the right methods of engagement and processes used on their projects.

Accountabilities

• Design management for safe, quality delivery of design projects on time and budget
• Hire, train and motivate your team
• Created a culture of innovation and collaboration among engineers
• Scope and technical change management
• Monthly project reporting
• Seek opportunities to deliver safer, better, faster and more profitably
• Technical input to contract negotiations
• Producing and maintaining key project documents
• Ensuring compliance with BB Governance and customer requirements whilst developing and executing engineering strategies to support business objectives

Financial and Resource Allocation

Budget responsibility for portfolio of project designs. Manage engineering budgets effectively for a portfolio of allocated project designs. Projects make recommendations for strategy to follow during the resource allocation to optimise engineering outcomes.

Who we're looking for

The following qualities and experience are essential:

• Supporting teams to deliver programmes safely, on time, on budget and to a high quality
• Interfacing with internal and external stakeholders
• Good technical grounding, experience and engineering delivery
• Project leadership at a management level, delivering a range of projects from standard to complex
• Experience of working in the UK HV Substations sector and within highly regulated industries
• Experience managing multi‑disciplinary and multi‑cultural teams

Benefits

• Smart working, giving 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: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and 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.

We value diversity and inclusion. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan we are growing a diverse workforce and developing an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. 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.

Equal Opportunity

All applicants are considered for employment on the basis of their suitability for the role, and not on the grounds of age, sex, race, religion, disability, socio‑economic background or marital status. Balfour Beatty complies with the Equality Act 2010.