Senior Engineer

About the role

Do you want to be at the forefront of one of the world’s most ambitious sustainability initiatives? Balfour Beatty have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world over the past 115 years redefining excellence and setting the industry benchmark with every project. As a result, alongside several consortium partners;
Balfour Beatty have been selected by bp (British Petroleum) to construct a first-of-a-kind fully integrated gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage which is a key driving force behind plans to make Teesside the UK’s first decarbonised industrial cluster. Balfour Beatty is seeking a dynamic Senior Engineer to contribute to the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project based at our site in Redcar and Cleveland.

• Plan, manage, prioritise and report to the Engineering Manager on design review workload in the discipline in which they work.
• To help manage the technical function of the business, ensuring that we provide our clients with the best and safest solutions and by providing the best innovative technical support/advice available in the market.
• To assist the Engineering Manager to achieve best technical governance of our activities.
• To assist the Business to develop technical excellence in their field of expertise.

• Supporting the Engineering Manager and Pre-Construction Managers to provide input to the overall design strategy and workload management;
• Supporting the delivery teams, verifying the work of others in a timely and efficient manner, and providing expert technical support;
• Providing integration planning of Methods, Permanent and Temporary works with multi-disciplinary project delivery teams;
• Ensuring design risks are considered and prepare design risk assessments. Communicate residual design risks to others;
• Leading design assurance on projects through conducting regular review meetings with project teams, identifying best practice, areas for improvement and areas of concern;
• Developing and maintain relationships with relevant technical consultants and suppliers;
• Promoting the development of BIM within the design process;
• Supporting the Engineering Manager, in ensuring that learning and best practice is shared across the business stream and the business as a whole;
• Maintaining personal expertise and knowledge to ensure that Project Engineering is at the forefront of the industry both technically and in using the latest technologies and standards;
• Carrying out technical audits in the office and site and ensure all actions are closed out;
• Conform to designer obligations of the Construction (Design and Management) regulations.

Personal qualities and experience:

Individuals must have a recognised profession qualification (MICE or MIStructE) and a valid CSCS card.

This is a key role for an individual with extensive up to date technical knowledge of temporary works design and ground engineering and industry best practice. The individual will be both focussed and thorough and have the gravitas and professional credibility to advise senior management when something needs immediate redress together with the tenacity and drive to ensure that the necessary action is taken.

This individual will, therefore, be a subject matter expert with a good understanding in other areas in the engineering field.

Good working knowledge of mechanical, structural and geotechnical engineering and relevant software packages and BIM is required.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners and delivery team members under time pressure. Customer centric and flexible in approach, the individual will have the strategic and creative insight to understand the range of opportunities in invitations to tender and be willing to challenge the norm. The individual will know ‘what good looks like’ in submissions and have hands on experience of leading technical aspects in a timely manner.

The individual should have a desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer requirements.

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