Senior Electrical Package Manager

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Electrical Package Manager to join our outstanding Major Projects team to work at our Old Oak Common development in London – join us and be part of the largest construction project in the UK
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HS2’s new ~1 billion Old Oak Common station will become the UK’s best-connected rail station once completed. Our Balfour Beatty VINCI SYTRA joint venture will be responsible for the final design, construction, and commissioning of the station in Northwest London.

Upon completion, the new station will boast six underground platforms and up to eight platforms on the adjacent Great Western Main Line. Old Oak Common will also provide high‑speed rail services to the Midlands, central London, Scotland, and the North, as well as direct services to three major airports. Incorporating passenger and retail facilities, the new station will provide an exceptional customer experience for both passengers and visitors to the station.

You will be with the existing Senior Electrical Package Manager / MEP Lead in assessing the information made available by the client and design partner, proposing optimisations of the design and the content of the construction works, supporting the production of the construction programme, producing construction methodologies in particular for consenting purposes, leading on the definition of the scope of the package and participating in the planning, procurement and technical input of the packages including the Electrical, Fire Detection and Alarm, CCTV, WiFi, Radio, Telephony, Customer Information and Station Management.

You will be responsible for the management of the packages from inception and delivery.

• Managing the Electrical Fire and Comms elements associated with the entire development.
• Management the appointed sub‑contractor(s) to deliver the Electrical Fire and Comms systems.
• Ensuring the scope of works are delivered to an exemplar standard in terms of Health and Safety, Quality, Environment & Sustainability.
• Ensuring quality standards are achieved, maintained and then improved upon.
• Championing innovation and new ways of working where appropriate.
• Ensuring adequate input and management is provided in the design, constructability, consents and 3rd party approvals, procurement and subsequent construction processes and snagging including handover and assurance deliverables.
• Fostering an open, transparent and professional relationship with all stakeholders and fulfilling the construction partner role to the satisfaction of HS2.

• Project Management experience
• Knowledge of NEC Contract
• You must be a capable and confident communicator, comfortable working in an open, challenging, and collaborative environment.
• You will demonstrate a passion for leaving a positive legacy in the communities we serve.
• You must have experience of working in or around a rail environment. You will demonstrate capability and energy in bringing variety of different processes and work streams together – design, consents, procurement – to ensure package delivery risk is minimised.

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. 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…

Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high‑speed…