Design Delivery Manager - Overhead Lines
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£45,800
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Description
About The Role
Role Purpose
The Design Delivery Manager OHL is responsible for managing a discipline specific delivery team:
Key Accountabilities
Role Purpose
The Design Delivery Manager OHL is responsible for managing a discipline specific delivery team:
- Proactively support the Design Discipline activities whether they are standalone or part of multidisciplinary Contracts.
- Proactively support the discipline chief engineer and Head of Design Technical to support technology projects and strategic design initiatives.
- Providing management and leadership to the team.
- To ensure that design team provides robust and optimal designs and documentation for each individual project.
- Promote cooperation between the different teams.
- Promote a proactive team culture which ensures shared learning and best practice, good communication, work across boundaries and recognition of success.
- Develop and refine processes within the team.
Key Accountabilities
- Set the strategic direction for their team in line with department procedures, the client and internal service levels whilst retaining full responsibility for the team.
- Actively promote and demonstrate Group values and behaviours through day-to-day work.
- Line Management.
- Responsible for the team’s productivity and performance.
- Responsible for nominating the Lead Designer and any other required key roles for each project as well as for general work allocation within their team.
- Responsible for managing the discipline’s workload across the multiple locations (UK, EDC) in collaboration with the local Team Leads.
- Responsible for the team’s resourcing, ensuring enough and competent staff for delivering the team’s current and future workload.
- Ensure a high level of team-work and cohesion between staff is maintained at all times.
- Closely collaborate with other Design Delivery Managers and promote team collaborate with the Designers and Technicians from the other disciplines involved in each project to ensure coordination of different disciplines working on the same projects.
- Actively liaise with the Engineering Managers for the projects the team is working on.
- When prioritisation is required, liaise with Head of Engineering and Head of Design Delivery in order to define the best course of action.
Skills Required
- Degree level education or the equivalent with formal training in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
- Expert level of knowledge and understanding relating to Overhead Power Line design, with extensive experience in a Senior Design / Leadership Role in this discipline.
- Expert knowledge of UK and European design codes and standards for the Electricity Supply Industry, e.g., SSE, National Grid and ENA Technical Specifications, BS EN 50341/ IEC 60826 and IEC Standards in general.
- Familiarity with CAD Packages used in Line Design.
- Excellent communicator, group leader with exceptional organisational 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.
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:
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.
- 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…
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 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/