Balfour Beatty plc
Design Engineer
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Living Places – Southampton
Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for a talented Design Engineer to join our Southampton team. You'll play a key role in designing and delivering a wide range of highway and transport improvement schemes that make a real difference to local communities.
Working Within a Collaborative Team Of Engineers And Technicians, You'll Contribute To The Development Of Safe, Sustainable And Inclusive Transport Solutions, Including
- Walking and cycling infrastructure
- Bus priority schemes
- Highway safety improvements
- Public realm enhancements
- Urban regeneration projects
Projects range from smaller local improvements through to major transformation schemes valued at up to £10 million.
What you'll be doing
- Deliver technically compliant civil and highway engineering designs.
- Take responsibility for the technical delivery of allocated projects.
- Work closely with Design Managers, Senior Engineers and project stakeholders.
- Coordinate and manage inputs from internal teams and third-party consultants.
- Monitor project programmes and support the successful delivery of design outputs.
- Prepare design estimates and support project fee proposals.
- Ensure designs comply with industry standards, CDM regulations and Balfour Beatty policies.
- Engage with clients, local authorities, stakeholders and the public throughout project development.
- Support continuous improvement and identify opportunities to enhance service delivery.
Who we're looking for
- Civil or Highway Engineering degree (or equivalent)
- Experience in highway or transport infrastructure design
- Knowledge of relevant design standards and CDM Regulations
- Strong project delivery and programme management skills
- Stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Working towards or holding IEng/CEng status (desirable)
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Candidate Summary
A proactive Civil/Highway Design Engineer with experience delivering transport and infrastructure schemes, strong technical knowledge, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a passion for creating safer and more sustainable communities.
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?
Benefits
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 Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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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 www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
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 Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also 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/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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