Balfour Beatty plc
Design Programme Manager - Civils
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Power T&D are looking for a Design Programme Manager - Civils to join their team in Scotland.
Role Purpose
To lead and manage the Civils Engineering Design Delivery Teams in the delivery of all design for schemes from identification of opportunities to completion of construction.
- Leading Civils business development activity and work winning input.
- Ensuring that the Civils Engineering Design Business delivers quality designs efficiently, on time and to budget.
- The role includes management of the Project Design Managers and supporting them as necessary in the design delivery. Ensuring that the scope of the work is clear and understood and that design produced meets requirements and is on time and on budget.
- Engaging with both internal and external customers and managing stakeholders' relationships.
What you'll be doing
Accountabilities
- Customer engagement and support with work winning and project delivery.
- Setting and managing the budget for the Substations Design Engineering department.
- Ensuring that the scope of works to be undertaken in delivering schemes is clear and understood and that due consideration is given to Safety by Design, including identification, documentation and the mitigation, as far as reasonably practical, of risk in both the construction and operation and maintenance phases.
- Take responsibility for the management of cost of design delivery for the schemes.
- Working with the Resource Manager and the Professional Excellence Manager, ensuring that the design delivery teams are suitably skilled and experienced to deliver design.
- Ensuring that the Design team are communicating efficiently, including the Operations team, third parties, client and each other during the design delivery.
- Working with the Professional Excellence Managers, ensure that the design for the proposed construction is of suitable quality, constructible and cost efficient. Also considers environmental and sustainability impacts and that mitigation measures are included, where possible and appropriate.
- Ensure that the design teams are managing change, establishing the change scope, timescales, and ensuring that the design teams are working to instructions, providing the relevant cost data, timescales to undertake the changes and achieving them.
- Encourage design innovation and value engineering during the design process and implementation of the Balfour Beatty 25% by 2015 initiative to reduce site based construction activity.
- Supporting the Professional Excellence Managers in preparation and review of the Processes and Procedures used to manage the Design and ensuring that these are followed by the design teams during the scheme development.
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Responsibilities
- Assess the impact of any one project Engineering / Design requirement on other concurrent projects and support allocation of resources as necessary to achieve optimum performance and negotiate the release of these resources.
- Act as senior focal point for the Specialist Services Power business on identified engineering /design works and tenders.
- Help to develop Specialist Services Power Strategy with the Engineering Director.
- Develop new business opportunities, leading from a Specialist Services Power perspective to secure new contracts and renewals as required.
- Support mobilisation phase for projects as required and ensure Engineering / Design accountability for project delivery.
- Help to identify resource to deliver projects according to plan ensuring competence and compliance.
- Maintain a watching brief over Engineering / design projects to ensure successful delivery.
- Work closely with peers in other parts of the BB Group to foster a joined up approach to integrated infrastructure projects.
- Monitor performance of in Design / Engineering projects against budget to help maintain forecast profit margins and aid the reporting back on a regular basis.
- Liaise with other Specialist Services colleagues to leverage efficiencies, cost savings and maximise margin improvement opportunities.
- Define Engineering / Design project stages, the objectives and project costs associated with the gated lifecycle process help maintain and update the project plan as work progresses in order to provide a ‘Right First Time’ culture.
- Ensure that all work is carried out in accordance with Company Safety Rules, Health & Safety Legislation and Environmental standards and set standards in the Substations function for Safety by Design.
- Maintain an awareness of new developments in project processes and propose modifications.
Who we're looking for
- Significant experience of managing Engineering / Design contracts and operational delivery within a construction/ engineering environment.
- Significant experience within the project management construction / engineering sector at management level.
- Experience of business development and managing tender processes.
- Previous experience of resource planning, management and mobilisation.
- Experience of client and stakeholder management.
- Understand the Power market and analyse opportunities to make informed business decisions.
- Engineering qualification at degree level minimum or equivalent.
- Firm understanding of and belief to drive health & safety principles in line with Balfour Beatty’s Zero Harm philosophy.
- Sound operational knowledge of the way the Power industry operates.
- Experience of managing budgets on multiple projects at any one time.
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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.
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’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 distribution projects.
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.
We are 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/.
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