Senior Electrical Engineer

What you'll be doing
What You’ll Be Doing Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.

Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to acquire upcoming project milestones and design review dates.

Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.

Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.

Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.

Input into Construction Design management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.

Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers where potential improvements can be implemented.

Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.

Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.

Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their engineering outputs to time and quality standards.

Drive sustainability and low carbon designs

Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.
Who we're looking for
You will ideally have:

Engineering, or equivalent, degree or be able to demonstrate a degree level of knowledge through relevant experience and preferably be Chartered, or working towards, Chartered status

Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential

Comfortable demonstrating your knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice

Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers

Strong stakeholder engagement 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
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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 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…