About the role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Project Technical Lead on the Operational Team based in Aberdeenshire and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
This project-based role provides overall leadership and accountability for the technical and engineering delivery of the Longside 400 kV & 132 kV Substation Project, ensuring compliance with SSEN standards, NEC3 requirements, and the project’s engineering, constructability, and delivery obligations. Responsible for ensuring that all technical interphases are effectively managed in line with target programme and project priorities.
- Competitive salary, site allowances, company car, bonus and subsistence (subject to role T&Cs).
- The opportunity to play a defining technical leadership role on a nationally significant ASTI project.
- Career development within an award-winning project management and engineering organisation.
- A clear pathway to lead increasingly complex and high-profile infrastructure projects.
- A supportive, inclusive environment where your expertise is valued and your impact is visible.
What you'll be doing
You'll be employed as a Senior Project Manager on the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Infrastructure ( ASTI) appointed to a flagship 400kV substation project, leading a team of dedicated professionals through design and into construction.
Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
- Lead and manage the entire engineering and design function for the project, ensuring all deliverables are right-first-time, coordinated and programme-driven.
- Act as Design Authority at project level, providing clear technical direction and governance across all disciplines.
- Ensure all designs are constructable, sequenced and fully aligned with construction methodology, logistics, access constraints and site conditions.
- Drive early identification and resolution of technical risks, constraints and interdependencies.
- Ensure all engineering and design deliverables are produced ahead of construction need dates, fully supporting the critical path.
- Integrate design with procurement strategies, ensuring long-lead equipment, subcontract packages and supplier information requirements are embedded in the programme.
- Work closely with construction, planning and commercial teams to ensure design supports efficient delivery, cost certainty and programme optimisation.
- Maintain clear line-of-sight between design progress, procurement commitments and construction readiness.
- Ensure engineering outputs meet or exceed SSEN, statutory, safety and quality requirements.
- Lead internal and external design reviews, technical assurance and acceptance processes.
- Ensure all work is delivered with a clear focus on handover, certification and asset adoption.
- Provide authoritative technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team including designers, engineers, planners and supply chain partners.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with SSEN, designers, subcontractors and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare and present clear, decision-ready technical and programme updates to senior stakeholders.
- Champion Zero Harm, engineering excellence, and a high-performance culture across the project team.
Who we're looking for
To be successful in this role, you’ll need:
- Proven experience leading engineering and design delivery on major power or utilities infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of substation design, construction sequencing and technical interfaces.
- Demonstrable experience integrating design, programme, procurement and construction.
- Credibility and confidence operating at client, director and supply-chain leadership level.
- Commercial awareness and understanding of how design decisions impact cost, risk and programme.
- Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts and technical governance processes.
- Recognised Project Management qualification.
- Recognised and relevant Engineering qualification.
Why work for us
Alongside the amazing opportunity, support and pride that you will gain from developing your career with one of the world’s foremost infrastructure giants, you will also enjoy:
- Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
- Wellbeing sessions - non-work-related activities go for a walk, do some house duties etc.
- Opportunity to join into the company SIP scheme.
- Flexible benefits window Options to purchase additional holidays, bikes, tech vouchers, dental cover, PMI etc.
- Reward platform where you can get discounts off shopping, insurance, cars etc.
- Hybrid working (where applicable)
- Enhanced company sickness scheme
- Enhanced company Maternity/Paternity/Shared parental/Adoption schemes
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
- Employee assistance programme
- Up to 2 days volunteering per year
- Company funded social events.
In joining the Power T&D team, you are joining a strong function, where you can join us as the first step on a lengthy career, or simply join us be the best you can be in your role we will support you either way.
We have a BB Academy, which is a great resource to support you with your learning and development.
About us
Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.
Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK18477
