Overview

Senior Primary Plant Design Engineer role at Balfour Beatty plc, Power T&D, Newcastle.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver design to the Customer specification requirements, ensuring compliance with relevant National / International Standards and legislation.
• Check and approve HV plant design deliverables e.g. single line diagram, layout/elevation drawings, MEWP access layouts, SC force calculations, earthing design / calculations etc.
• Work with due regard to Health & Safety Procedures and the Company’s obligations in compliance with current CDM regulations. Any perceived risks and mitigation measures should be advised to Engineering Manager for effective action.
• Ensure all required models and drawings have an adequate level of review and approval including the supplier and subcontractor supply chains. Incorporating the best practice of BIM as established in the Engineering team.

General Responsibilities

• Ensure duties are carried out in accordance with Standard Company Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental Procedures and Business Process Manuals.
• Delivery of engineering design to programme, quality and budgets, and lead safety and sustainability by Design into the engineering delivery.
• Functionally the authorised approver of designs (and associated settings) on contracts in accordance with the published design/check/approve authorisation levels.

Commercial/Contract Responsibilities

Report variations in the Contract Scope of Work to the Design Manager / engineering manager, indicate implications and only proceed with these variations following verbal / written approval from the Engineering Manager.

Design Responsibilities

Identify all relevant standards and Customer requirements, ensuring compliance with relevant National / International Standards and legislation, and contract specification.

• Design work to be undertaken with due regard to Health, Safety & Environmental Procedures and production of Designer Risk Assessments, as necessary, to fulfil the Company’s obligations in compliance with current CDM regulations.
• AIS and GIS substation design up to 400kV.

Who we're looking for

Education

• Minimum HNC in Electrical Engineering or equivalent. A Graduation engineering degree is desirable.
• Member of IET (MIET).
• Working towards Chartership (CEngg).

Experience

• Liaising with customers and suppliers
• Overall design and specification of electrical power systems and associated power system components
• Calculations to demonstrate integrity of designs
• Microsoft Office Packages
• AutoCAD 2D / Revit Experience
• Working on BIM360
• Experience as HV Substation / Primary Plant Design Engineer: Liaising with customers and suppliers
• Basic understanding of P&C aspects preferable.
• TP141 HV Substation qualification is an advantage

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

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 Beatty’s 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 world’s 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.