Balfour Beatty

About the role

Balfour Beatty have an exciting new opportunity for a Principal Structural Design Engineer to join our Design and Engineering Team in our Power T&D Business

You will deliver such design calculations, engineering drawings and documents that enable a safe and constructible engineered solution.

At Balfour Beatty we have a smart working policy with hybrid and part-time opportunities available.

What you'll be doing

• Assume the role of lead structural engineer for complex and non-standard projects
• Analyse and understand contract documents to determine scope of works, design parameters/methodologies, engineering programme, and budget.
• Ensure projects are delivered to the engineering manager in accordance with the agreed scope of works, design parameters/methodologies, engineering programme and budget.
• Approve design deliverables completed and checked by others as per delegation of authority.
• Review designs and design calculations produced by other engineers or apprentices to ensure the designs are appropriate and can be manufactured and constructed safely in accordance with contract documents and/ or current
• best practice.
• Produce appropriate designs and design calculations for review by a principal/senior structural design engineer, that can be manufactured and constructed safely in accordance with contract documents and/ or current best practice, and ensure all associated drawings produced represent the design as intended.
• Embed Safety and Sustainability by Design in all designs ensuring compliance with CDM regulations.
• Assist in the analysis and resolution of complex and non-standard design issues.
• Communicate as required with other business functions, consultants, clients, and operational teams to ensure projects are delivered to the agreed scope of works, design parameters/methodologies, engineering programme and
• budget.
• Visit operational sites and other offices to discuss design issues and to develop solutions to operational issues.
• Analyse and understand tender documents to produce engineering tenders for review by engineering managers, that, state the scope of work to be undertaken, identify the engineering tasks and associated cost allocations, develop the
• engineering programme, and identify any significant risk.
• Identify, deliver, and undertake training as required to enable effective achievement of objectives.
• Mentor and coach others from the structural and the wider engineer team.
• Liaise with engineering managers, principal structural design engineers, senior structural design engineers and other engineers or apprentices as required.
• Support the Chief Engineer Structures, to drive technical improvement, and identify innovation and development opportunities.
• Act as a delegate for the Design Delivery Manager - Structurers as required.

Who we're looking for

Bachelors Degree in Civil/Structural or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.

Excellent structural analysis skills, ability to solve problems from first principles.

Good communication skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels.

Knowledge of lattice type structures.

Experience with BS EN 1993-1-1 2005; BS EN 1993-3-1 2006; BS EN 50341-2-9-UK NNA (2017).

Experience with Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis, Bentley Staad Pro and PLS CADD/TOWER, or equivalent.

Working towards CEng.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive 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. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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