About the role

Balfour Beatty are currently looking for Chief Engineer (Substation HV Plant) to join their Transmission and Distribution Division in Leeds or Newcastle.

Role Purpose

The Chief Engineer is responsible for overseeing the technical aspects of the Substation HV Plant delivery team:

Provide technical leadership, oversight and support to the team.

To ensure that design team provides robust and optimal designs and documentation for each individual project.

To ensure design quality via the approval of designs and drawings

Provide expert scrutiny for the solution and independence to the design team

Promote cooperation between the different disciplines and if required shared best practice.

Promote a proactive team culture which ensures shared learning and best practice, good communication, work across boundaries and recognition of success.

Develop the team’s technical skills and look to close skill gaps within the disciplines.

Ensure that there is a technical succession plan for the discipline

Balfour Beatty welcomes applications from both full-time and part-time candidates, including those interested in job-sharing arrangements. Additionally, the company offers a flexible working policy to support a healthy work-life balance. <...