Balfour Beatty plc
Temporary Works Engineer
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About The Role
Temporary Works Engineer
Balfour Beatty Power Transmission & Distribution (Power T&D)
Location: Various locations across the UK with travel to project sites as required
Build the future with Balfour Beatty
At Balfour Beatty Power T&D, we deliver some of the UK's most critical energy infrastructure projects, helping to connect communities and support the transition to a low-carbon future. Due to continued growth and increased project demand, we are looking for a Temporary Works Engineer to join our team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer to provide technical expertise and support across a range of power transmission and distribution projects, ensuring temporary works are designed, managed, and executed safely and efficiently.
Key Accountabilities
- Leadership of the onsite control of all Temporary Works activities.
- Support all design & construction activities across all the workstreams of Power T&D.
- Develop and maintain proactive and positive relationships with all key stakeholders within PT&D and across the wider Balfour Beatty Group.
- Understand the importance of corporate governance and ensure consistent measures and standards are applied.
- Ensure Balfour Beatty’s temporary works are controlled in line with their BS5975 procedures.
What you'll be doing
- Ensuring each project in the region has a TWC appointed; TW items are identified and planned.
- Ensuring and supporting the development of comprehensive Design Briefs in consultation with site and design teams to ensure practical, cost effective and safe solutions are sourced to enable the construction programme.
- Undertaking constructability reviews and checks on supplier designs, typically scaffolds and excavation shoring.
- Assist with the development of tenders, identifying TW requirements, detailing outline solutions and associated costs.
- Optioneering and solution development for a variety of TW solutions.
- Ensuring that hazards are identified in the design brief and residual design risks are controlled during construction and use via the site-specific risk assessments and method statements. Including inspection and maintenance regimes are implemented.
- Manage change control during design and construction.
- To assess & identify temporary works requirements on each project, this could include:
- Access, protection and lifting scaffolding
- Excavation support for tower foundations or cable trenches
- Formwork & setting templates for reinforced concrete foundations
- Piling & Cranage platforms
- Access roads & traffic management
- Catenary Support System (in-house system used in place of scaffold)
- Backstays & temporary steelwork for tower support
- Temporary overhead line diversions
- Creation and maintenance of schedules to track and control schemes’ temporary works.
- To identify competent designers, suppliers & operatives for installation of each type of temporary works and to co-ordinate & supervise their work.
- Undertake simple (Cat 0/1) temporary works designs.
- Ensure business processes and systems for Temporary Works are implemented.
- Ongoing development of TW & Operational site staff.
- Audit and competency assess BB projects & suppliers.
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Interacts With
- PT&D TWC’s & TWS’s
- PT&D TW Designers
- PT&D Project Managers and project teams
- BB Group and other Balfour Beatty operating companies
- Third party providers
- Clients
- All TW Subcontractors and suppliers
Who we're looking for
Essential
Skills Required:
- BEng in Civil Engineering or equivalent
- Professional Membership and working towards IEng status or equivalent
- Experience preferably with a temporary works/civils/utilities background, with a significant & wide range of temporary works construction experience, with a sound understanding of engineering principles.
- Working knowledge of BS5975 procedural control requirements
- Ability to distil complex scheme requirements into clear and concise design briefs.
- Ability to identify hazards associated with temporary works activities
- Excellent communications & team working skills.
- Sound health & safety knowledge relating to site and design activities.
- Good IT Skills.
- Knowledge of subject area and able to communicate clearly engineering constraints
Desirable
- IOSH / NEBOSH health & safety qualification.
- Detailed knowledge of CDM Regulations Principal Contractor & Designer responsibilities
- Good site management 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?
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:
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- 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/
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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