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About The Role

Balfour Beatty is currently recruiting a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Power T&D team in Aberdeen.

Role purpose

To provide strategic engineering and design management for a portfolio of Power Transmission and Distribution Engineering projects. To include design delivery, management and engineering governance of , from initial opportunity, through bid development and contract negotiation, mobilisation and delivery, and finally project completion and archiving.

About The Role

Balfour Beatty is currently recruiting a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Power T&D team in Aberdeen.

Role purpose

To provide strategic engineering and design management for a portfolio of Power Transmission and Distribution Engineering projects. To include design delivery, management and engineering governance of , from initial opportunity, through bid development and contract negotiation, mobilisation and delivery, and finally project completion and archiving.

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead, manage, mentor and develop, a team of Engineering Managers, Assistant Engineering Managers, Graduates, Apprentices and Trainees seeking to develop an Engineering Manager career path.

Balfour Beatty welcomes applications from both full-time and part-time candidates, including those interested in job-sharing arrangements. Additionally, the company offers a flexible working policy to support a healthy work-life balance.

What you'll be doing

Financial

• Ownership, monitoring and management of Engineering team budget for the works. Contribution to change control and management of contract mechanisms for cost recovery.
  
  

• Interfaces and supports other Team Leaders. Manages a team of Engineering Staff. Leads project steering groups and cross-discipline action groups.
  
  

• Design management for safe, quality delivery of engineering scope of project(s) – on time and on budget, managing the project design and engineering risks.
• Manage and create a culture of innovation and collaboration among your team seeking opportunities to deliver safer, better, faster and more profitably
• Recruit, train and motivate a team of Engineering managers at all levels not limited to apprentices and graduate level
• Identifies longer term strategic training to support individual development as required creating a culture of innovation and collaboration among engineers
• Support the overall engineering strategy for the business and BB clients
• Develops design related KPI’s in line with Project objectives and monitors performance
• Contributes to weekly senior managers meetings to review strategic performance
• Supports the project teams to resolve engineering issues rapidly to avoid and minimise costs and programme impacts.
• Ensures all engineering deliverables align with the construction programme.
• Assistance and expert knowledge to reinforce the objectives of the work winning teams including technical support for the commercial team during contract negotiations
• Production and maintenance of key project strategy documents
• Ensuring compliance with BB Governance and customer requirements whilst developing and executed engineering strategies to support business objectives
• Manages the design change process to minimise cost impact and inform the commercial team of potential changes and the implications.
• Reports back as necessary to update Project Director and Head of Engineering.
  
  

• Takes ownership of tasks and communicates outcomes with clarity, direction and purpose, including managing others in this regard
• Supporting teams to deliver programs safely, on time, on budget and to a high quality
• Good technical grounding, experience and engineering delivery
• Project leadership at a management level, delivering a range of projects from Standard to Complex projects
• Experience of working in the UK HV Networks sector and within highly regulated industries
• Excellent team player and team leader, able to work competently and independently without supervision.
• Able and willing to make decisions following consideration of options based on best available information.
• Strong communication skills with track record of solution orientated approach to issue resolution
• BEng (Hons) Engineering Degree or higher.
  
  

• Proven track record in managing and leading teams
• Demonstrable experience of innovation, in all fields(Health and Safety, Design innovation, Operational Delivery etc)
• Experienced in the recruitment and development of talent within the business, including mentoring, stretch and challenge for junior team members and ensuring clearly defined development plans are in place
• Strong leadership and management skills, including completion of formal qualification (eg ILM).
• Wide ranging independent judgement evident, proven track record in this regard.
• Has achieved professional accreditation and undertakes extra-curricular activities to advance the profession (eg ICE, IHT, CMI)
  
  

• 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…
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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