Senior Design Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Senior Design Manager to join their rapidly growing team within Power T&D. The role will be based in Derby on a hybrid working pattern.

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.

They are expected to work closely with the Project Director, or Head Of OPS, and lead positive engagement with internal and external stakeholders to manage the scope risks and programme of their portfolio of projects 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.

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.

• Design management for safe, quality delivery of 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
• Seeking 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 projects designs of allocated Projects

Manage engineering budgets effectively for a portfolio of allocated project designs

Projects Make recommendations for strategy to follow during the resource allocation to optimize engineering outcomes

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Supporting teams to deliver programs 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 projects
• Experience of working in the UK HV Substations sector and within highly regulated industries
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams

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.

• 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…

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…