About the role
Balfour Beatty have an exciting new opportunity for a Head of Design - Overhead Lines to lead the Development and Design capability of our OHL Team in our Power T&D Business.
Role Purpose:
- Own the Design Delivery process for the discipline in accordance with Group Minimum Engineering Expectations (GMEE) requirements.
- Own the OHL / Structures input to our forward workload and work winning activities, ensuring tender commitments are achievable and robust for their discipline, supporting our work winning teams by ensuring we are providing robust and clear tender information.
- Set strategic direction for the design discipline including focus on growing our capability, enhancing the delivery of our on site projects and development of key tools and methods to drive our productivity through standardisation, automation and digital methods.
- Accountable for the discipline financial targets
What you'll be doing
Key Accountabilities:
- Resource all live projects with suitably skilled staff to deliver to our commitments of time, cost and quality having overall accountability for the delivery of design
- Continue to evolve our Global Practice approach to integration with our GCC teams to focus on the medium and longer term capacity of the team.
- Own the OHL / Structures input to our forward workload and work winning activities, ensuring tender commitments are achievable and robust for their discipline, supporting our work winning teams by ensuring we are providing robust and clear tender information.
- Maintain a robust talent pipeline and succession planning to achieve our commitments in both transmission and distribution.
- Ensure the competence and capacity of any outsourced design.
- Set strategic direction for the design discipline including focus on growing our capability, enhancing the delivery of our on site projects and development of key tools and methods to drive our productivity through standardisation, automation and digital methods.
- Alignment with our Engineering Management and Chief Engineer functions in Design & Engineering, as well as building our relationships with our Preconstruction, Planning and Operations teams.
- Own the Design Delivery process for the discipline in accordance with Group Minimum Engineering Expectations (GMEE) requirements.
- Maintain excellent working relationships with our in-house fabrication business.
- Accountable for the discipline financial targets
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a member of the Design and Engineering Senior Leadership Team
- Provide suitably qualified Design resource to projects.
- Ensure adequate pipeline of (internal and external) suitably qualified designers to meet the projected business demand.
- Ownership of the Power T&D design delivery process for the discipline, including but not limited to:
- Audit preparation and support.
- Closing actions arising from any internal or external audit o Process development.
- Monitoring of process adherence.
- Provide site support to the projects during the assembly and construction phase of the project.
- Support troubleshooting for issues within discipline.
- Provide management and leadership to the Design Capability for their discipline.
- Ensure that design team provides robust and optimal designs and documentation for each individual project.
- Promote a proactive team culture which ensures shared learning and best practice, good communication, work across boundaries and recognition of success.
- Actively promote and demonstrate Group values and behaviours through day-to-day work.
- Ensure adherence to Governance processes and the Gated lifecycle.
Who we're looking for
Skills Required:
- Degree or equivalent in Civil, Electrical or Power Engineering disciplines.
- Ideally a corporate member of, or working towards corporate membership of, an Engineering Institution (e.g. ICE, IEEE, IMechE).
- Previous experience in the Power industry, coupled with familiarity with NG, SSE and DNO technical specifications.
- Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being able to relate to people at all levels in an organisation and to establish and maintain respect both professionally and personally.
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.
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/
Job Reference: BBUK19870
