Chief Engineer (Substation HV Plant), Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Chief Engineer (Substation HV Plant)

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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.

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.

What you'll be doing

Key Accountabilities

Ensure competencies of the technical staff working within the discipline.
Contribute towards the strategic direction for the discipline.
Drive a culture of innovation and value engineering within the discipline.

Key Responsibilities

Support the team in understanding of client requirements, including those not captured in the contract, and the ability to influence contact specifications.
Closely collaborate with other Chief Engineers and Design Delivery Managers and promote collaboration within the discipline between the Designers and Technicians.
Assist in analysis of test failures and subsequent development of mitigations or solutions.
Work in close collaboration with the discipline Design Delivery Manager to ensure that the team’s technical competencies and expertise are developed and maintained.
Lead on any technical challenges affecting tender development and live projects and in doing so provide support to the relevant Design Delivery Manager.
Support the Lead Designer during tender development, particularly regarding risks and opportunities.
Propose and support development of technical innovations.
Support changes in process and technology proposed and undertaken by the Digital and Delivery teams.
Contribute to the development and updating of the design aids and computer programmes and assist in the analysis of new design concepts.
In conjunction with the lead project design engineer(s), help ensure that the discipline’s scope of work for each project is technically compliant with customer requirements, quality standards and safety by design principles.
Ensure succession plans are in place for their own role, as well as supporting the Design Delivery Manager in doing so for any other key roles within the team (Principal Design Engineers, CDAE, Technical Experts, etc.).
Proactively support the discipline activities whether they are standalone or part of multidisciplinary Contracts.
Look to implement Engineering Excellence, Safety by Design and sustainability goals in everything we do.
Ensure that Manuals and Technical Procedures provided for compliance with the appropriate Quality and Safety standards are maintained and applied.
Look to join, influence and promote relevant Technical Bodies for the discipline
Support PDRs for discipline alongside the Design Delivery Manager.

Who we're looking for

Skills Required

Degree level education or equivalent with formal training in engineering.
Chartered Engineer preferred with professional body (e.g. ICE, IEEE or IStructE)
Strong, proven post-graduate experience in the engineering and design sector
Strong, proven experience of the management of design works
IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel)
Extensive experience of technical design
Experience of the power industry (preferred)
Experience working with National Grid / SSE would be a benefit

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.

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/

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Location:: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Salary:: £100,000 - £125,000
Job Type:: FullTime
Category:: Engineering

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