About the role
Balfour Beatty’s Regional Buildings division is seeking an experienced Bid Writer/Technical Author to join our team on site at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. This 23‑month fixed‑term role is central to supporting our internal SVA team as we deliver a significant programme of work within a complex, live healthcare environment. You’ll take ownership of producing high‑quality bid submissions, technical narratives, and project documentation that clearly articulate our approach, capability, and value. Working closely with preconstruction, design, and operational colleagues, you’ll help ensure our written outputs are accurate, compelling, and aligned with both client expectations and Balfour Beatty’s standards of excellence.
In liaison with the new dedicated SVA & Settlement Team, act as the Lead Author to manage the existing Operations team to produce new documents and/or review existing documentation to ensure professionally written and consistent content that clearly articulates Balfour Beatty’s proposition.
What you’ll be doing
- Assist the SVA Lead in developing a proposal structure and strategy
- Conduct answer planning sessions with team and supply chain
- Attend various Operational meetings to determine lessons learnt and ensure these are fed back into subsequent submissions
- Provide ‘one BB tone of voice’ across quality submissions and ensure no conflicts exist between constituent documents.
- Manage content and structure for evidence to be included in the SVA
- Proactively develop and manage individual site team subject matter experts, and drive continuous improvement
- Coordinate and manage response review sessions
- Identify and re‑work existing pre‑written content where relevant
- Support with submission graphics and final documents upload
- Ability to coach operational teams and subject matter experts in writing best practice
- Support with SVA Contract and systems administration
- Provide guidance, mentoring and support for individuals in the Pre Con team.
Who we’re looking for
- Proven skills in producing and editing proposal content within a complex business environment.
- Design sensibilities, and the ability to edit submissions while keeping the essentials of the bid intact
- Experienced in leading answer planning sessions, participating in key review meetings / final document review, content sign off and document production.
- Experience of coordinating and updating a knowledge base system is beneficial.
- Excellent writing skills and ability to communicate professionally with colleagues at all levels of the business
- Collate individual proposal document using existing library/information stores, and corporate directories into a coherent SVA document, and individual Settlement Contracts where applicable.
- Ability to work collaboratively with existing internal department disciplines and external supply chain experts.
- Assist in the drafting and standardizing of Pro‑forma documentation
- Understanding of the principles of BIM and 4P as relate to the submissions
- Forensic attention to detail and meticulous proofreading skills
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.
Why join us?
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
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
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
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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