Technical Lead - Building Services Wide

About the role

Balfour Beatty’s Regional Buildings division is seeking a Technical Lead who can bring authority, clarity and ambition to some of the UK’s most complex and meaningful projects. This national role gives you the opportunity to lead design thinking from the very top—setting the technical direction, shaping early strategy and influencing the engineering approach long before a project reaches site. You’ll be at the forefront of programmes that protect national security, strengthen critical public services and enhance the environments where people live, work and recover, spanning Defence, Healthcare and major M&E‑driven schemes.

You’ll act as a senior technical voice across a diverse national portfolio, guiding multidisciplinary teams through challenging design and delivery environments. Your leadership will ensure solutions are robust, innovative and aligned with best practice, while also championing safety, quality and long‑term performance. As a trusted partner to project leaders, customers and supply chain specialists, you’ll help resolve complex engineering issues, shape design strategy and drive consistent technical standards across regions.

This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, collaboration and influence. You’ll work with teams delivering high‑security Defence facilities, cutting‑edge Healthcare environments and technically demanding M&E‑led projects—each requiring deep technical insight, strong communication and the ability to bring people together around a shared vision. You’ll play a central role in capability development across the division, supporting our people to grow, innovate and deliver exceptional outcomes.

Joining Balfour Beatty means shaping projects that matter—schemes that serve communities, support national priorities and leave a lasting legacy—while leading the design journey from its earliest and most influential stages.

The Technical Leader works across all building services projects to provide technical assurance and support at bid, pre‑construction, delivery and handover stages. The Technical Lead is expected to be conversant and competent working around all building services related technical matters but will draw upon expertise and specific technical competence from internal and external resources. Working closely with the building services director, operational, commercial and planning leads, the Technical Leader will provide regular reporting on all technical matters and communicate any direction or instruction back to the project teams.

Provide support to the project design and leadership teams in their planning and execution of works to ensure they understand their responsibilities, have the necessary competences and are employing the appropriate processes and procedures.

Ensure project teams identify the key technical issues and risks and help to provide and/or procure competent guidance from internal and external resources to deliver technically compliant solutions.

Lead the Operation and Technical Review Process to ensure projects are sufficiently interrogated and actions defined including:

• Establishing the construction strategy at the outset to provide direction for the designers to follow.
• Design and scope gaps and strategies are established to close these out as well as the routes to technical, regulatory and statutory compliance including the Building Regulations and the Building Safety Act.
• Technical complexities and risks are identified and managed determining competencies for internal resourcing but also external designers and suppliers.
• Appointments are based on comprehensive integrated planning, definition of responsibilities, interfaces and information requirements.
• A collaboration strategy is developed to manage team interaction including the use of common data environment, BIM and model strategies and the meeting and communication formats and cadence.

Be the guardians of the Design Management processes and procedures stored on the corporate BMS and maintain and develop these as appropriate.

Represent BBK building services at related design and technical forums to ensure compliant and consistent delivery of all…