Senior Electrical Engineer

Overview

Senior Electrical Engineer - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location:

Peterborough/East Anglia

Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of Anglian Water's @one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, we are taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes and setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure. This role offers exceptional career growth opportunities within one of our four business units.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer within one of our four business units, you’ll provide engineering technical direction to the discipline engineers in your area. You’ll provide design support for schemes and ensure all designs are fit for purpose and meet current legislation and standards. You’ll be responsible for checking and reviewing electrical design deliverables produced by other electrical engineers in the @one Alliance and supply chain to ensure processes and procedures are followed.

You’ll be required to coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.

• Regularly report to the Principal Engineer.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineer, Portfolio Design Managers and Project Design Managers to capture upcoming project milestones and design review dates.
• Check specifications, schedules, datasheets, drawings, and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to.
• Coach and mentor junior and less experienced members of the electrical team.
• Review construction site and supply chain design queries and change requests to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or that the design remains suitable.
• Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) and commissioning strategy meetings.
• Update and collaborate with the Principal Engineer and Design Managers on potential improvements.
• Liaise with other departments and project teams with respect to design requirements.
• Manage quality through the design workflow review in line with the project timeline.
• Support other leads and discipline engineers to deliver their outputs to time and quality standards.
• Drive sustainability and low carbon designs.
• Drive offsite build, modular construction, and repeatable solutions.

You will ideally have:

• Engineering, or equivalent, degree or demonstrate degree-level knowledge through relevant experience; preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status.
• Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects is essential.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations, standards, and codes of practice.
• Experience of leadership, mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects, developing, building and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working with flexibility, including staggered start/finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family-friendly policies including 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 more.

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.

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