Senior Engineering Manager

About The Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and manage engineering activities across a portfolio of projects at Sellafield. This is a key leadership role, responsible for driving engineering delivery, developing high-performing teams, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards.

As Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead, coordinate and oversee all design and engineering activities across multiple projects. You'll act as the primary engineering point of contact, managing both internal and external engineering resources while supporting project delivery from pre-construction through to completion

What you'll be doing

• Lead and manage all engineering functions across a portfolio of Sellafield projects.
• Act as the principal engineering interface between BBK, clients and key stakeholders.
• Support bid submissions and work-winning activities, ensuring alignment with project strategy and contractual objectives.
• Lead and present engineering updates at customer, operational and business meetings.
• Develop engineering strategies, design management plans and design quality plans.
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams and subject matter experts to deliver project requirements.
• Ensure engineering documentation and work packs are completed on time, within budget and are buildable.
• Identify and implement Modern Methods of Construction, including DfMA and PPMOF solutions.
• Provide oversight of project planning, programme assurance, risk management and technical delivery throughout the project lifecycle.
  
  

Who we're looking for

• Degree-qualified in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Relevant professional qualification or membership within an engineering institution.
• Chartered status (or working towards) is highly desirable.

Significant experience leading engineering functions within regulated industries.

Proven track record in the management of multidisciplinary engineering projects.

Strong experience in design development, design reviews and engineering governance.

Confident managing client relationships and providing technical leadership.

Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.

Ability to build and develop high-performing engineering teams in complex project environments.

Demonstrable experience managing engineering risks, constraints and project delivery challenges.

Passion for innovation, continuous improvement and delivering engineering excellence.

Able to obtain a security clearance.

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:

• 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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusi

ve 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.

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.

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