Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Design Engineer
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About The Role
Location: Southampton, Hampshire (Millbrook Office)
Travel: Southampton and surrounding areas required
Shape the Future of Southampton's Transport Network
At Balfour Beatty Living Places, we're creating safer, more sustainable, and more connected communities. We're looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join our Southampton team, leading the design and delivery of innovative highway and transport improvement schemes that make a real difference to the city.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects including active travel schemes, public realm improvements, highway safety initiatives, cycling infrastructure, bus priority measures, and urban regeneration projects
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Design Engineer, you'll take technical responsibility for the delivery of highway and civil engineering design projects from concept through to construction. You'll work closely with clients, stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to develop practical and innovative solutions.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Leading the technical delivery of allocated design projects.
- Managing and mentoring engineers, graduates and apprentices.
- Preparing design programmes, fee estimates and resource plans.
- Monitoring project performance against programme, budget and quality requirements.
- Working collaboratively with project managers, delivery teams and client representatives.
- Managing third-party design inputs and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant standards, industry best practice and CDM regulations.
- Supporting public consultations and engagement with local stakeholders.
- Contributing to business growth and the development of new opportunities.
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- Proven experience delivering highways, civil engineering or transport infrastructure design projects.
- Strong technical knowledge of highway design standards and engineering principles.
- Experience leading projects and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to manage project budgets, programmes and stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of CDM Regulations and safe design practices.
- A collaborative approach with a passion for developing others.
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.
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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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