About The Role
Location: Ipswich
Business Unit: Power Transmission & Distribution (T&D)
Project: BTNO
Company: Balfour Beatty
Are you ready to power up your career with one of the UK’s leading infrastructure groups? Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution team is seeking a dedicated
Site Engineer – OHL to join the
BTNO project in Ipswich.
Working closely with the Project Manager, Project Director and wider delivery team, you’ll play a key role in the
planning, execution, and successful delivery of our overhead line works — ensuring they’re completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
- Deliver and oversee day-to-day site engineering activities across OHL works.
- Interpret and communicate specified engineered solutions to working parties.
- Supervise and support the delivery team, ensuring works are completed right first time, in line with safety and quality standards.
- Set people to work in line with company procedures and ensure sustainable and safe practices on site.
- Monitor and report on time, cost, quality, safety and other key project KPIs.
- Drive compliance with project scope, design requirements and customer expectations.
- Actively contribute to commissioning, handover and close-out of project phases.
What you'll be doing
- Attend periodic project reviews / project meetings
- Maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)
- Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholders
- Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost- effective decisions in line with overall strategy
- Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
- Specify, understand and implement technical information and drawings into delivery
- Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost- effective decisions in line with overall strategy
- Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in coordinated working
- Specify, understand and implement technical information and drawings into delivery
- Management of subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance and progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that contractual arrangements are achieved
- Help to ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project plans, such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled deadlines
- Follow targets/KPI’s in line with project objectives and monitor performance
- Help to ensure assurance activities (audits) are undertaken and take appropriate action on findings
- Contribute towards workshops that cover the principles of continuous improvement
- Help to develop, implement and periodically update resource loaded schedules
- Ensure team adopt productivity and project controls techniques
- Monitor progress and implement Short Interval Control processes/hold weekly meeting
- Ensure production of operational milestones reflect master schedule and customer expectations
- Coordinate with other project activities and internal functions
- Awareness of cost / budget
- Awareness of commercial impact
- Escalation of commercial change
- Requestion of plant and materialsMaintain Digital Group Minimum Standards and operate with appropriate level of digital tools
- Ensure the team has the correct level of digital training
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Experience in implementing safe systems of work
- Experience in managing risks and change processes
- Good understanding of the standard forms of contracts
- Proficient in commercial/project management communications
- Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the organisation
- Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at all levels across the business and be able to negotiate and influence
- Able to undertake work in high pressure situations with a flexible attitude
- A record of a solutions-based approach to problem solving
- Demonstrate awareness and support of the benefits of diversity and inclusion
- Identify and drive personal development
- Proficient on O365
The Candidate Is Likely To Have The Following
- Holds or working towards a formal qualification in construction/engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Holds CSCS and SSSTS or equivalent
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’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:
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