About The Role
Balfour Beatty Power T&D are looking for an experienced Civils Professional to join thier business in Derby in the position of Chief Engineer Civils. The Chief Engineer – Civils is a key role in the Power T&D design team that is essential in design assurance, technical leadership, oversight and support to the team.
Role Purpose
The Chief Engineer Civils is responsible for overseeing the technical aspects of the Civils delivery team.
Key Accountabilities
- Ensure competencies of the technical staff working within the Civils discipline.
- Contribute towards the strategic direction of Civils.
- Drive a culture of innovation and value engineering within the discipline.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the team in understanding of client requirements, including those not captured in the contract, and the ability to influence contract specifications.
- Closely collaborate with other Chief Engineers and Design Delivery Leads and promote collaboration within the discipline between the Designers and Technicians.
- Assist in analysis of test failures and subsequent development of mitigations or solutions.
- Work in close collaboration with the discipline Design Delivery Lead to ensure that the team’s technical competencies and expertise are developed and maintained.
- Lead on any technical challenges affecting tender development and live projects and in doing so provide support to the relevant Design Delivery Lead.
- Support the Lead Designer and bid development team during tender development, particularly regarding risks and opportunities.
- Propose and support development of technical innovations.
- Support changes in process and technology proposed and undertaken by the Digital and Delivery teams and provide appropriate feedback as to their efficacy.
- Contribute to the development and updating of the design aids and computer programmes and assist in the analysis of new design concepts.
- In conjunction with the lead project design engineer(s), help ensure that the discipline’s scope of work for each project is technically compliant with customer requirements, quality standards and safety by design principles. Ensure the principals of Balfour Beatty’s group minimum engineering expectations policy are adhered to.
- Ensure succession plans are in place for their own role, as well as supporting the Design Delivery Lead in doing so for any other key roles within the team (Principal Design Engineers, CDAE, Technical Experts, etc.).
- Proactively support the discipline activities whether they are standalone or part of multidisciplinary Contracts.
- Look to implement Engineering Excellence, Safety by Design and sustainability goals in everything we do.
- Ensure that Manuals and Technical Procedures provided for compliance with the appropriate Quality and Safety standards are maintained and applied.
- Look to join, influence and promote relevant Technical Bodies for the discipline.
- Support technical development aims through PDRs for discipline alongside the Design Delivery Lead.
Skills Required
- Degree level education or equivalent with formal training in engineering.
- Chartered Engineer preferred with professional body (e.g. ICE, IET or IStructE).
- Strong, proven post‑graduate experience in the engineering and design sector.
- Strong, proven experience of the management of design works.
- IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel).
- Extensive experience of technical design.
- Demonstrable experience of the power industry.
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.
Equal Opportunities
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/.
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.
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