Design Delivery Lead - Substations

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

About the role

Balfour Beatty is currently recruiting a Design Delivery Lead - Substations to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team based in Leeds.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that competent resources are available to deliver Substation design for our projects.

The Design Delivery Lead - Substations is responsible for managing the Substation delivery team:

• Providing strategy, management and leadership to the team across UK and worldwide offices.
• Promote cooperation between the different teams and wider stakeholders.
• Promote a proactive team culture which ensures shared learning and best practice, good communication, work across boundaries and recognition of success.

We are open to both full time and part time candidates (including job share) and offer a flexible working policy.

What you'll be doing

Key Accountabilities:

• Substation resourcing, management and people / team development, including but not limited to ensuring enough and competent staff for delivering the discipline’s current and future workload
• Managing the workload across the interface locations (UK, EDC, other) in collaboration with the local Team Leads.
• The team’s productivity and performance – specifically relating to the design delivery process.
• Profit and Loss across the discipline – acting to ensure that opportunities are maximised through productivity of staff.
• Ensuring tender inputs produced from the discipline capture keys opportunities and risks and provide realistic pricing estimations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for nominating the Lead Designer and any other required key roles for each project, as well as for general work allocation within their team.
• Ensure a high level of teamwork and cohesion between staff is maintained at all times regardless of location.
• Work in close collaboration with the Chief Engineer Substations for developing and maintaining team’s technical competencies and expertise.
• Set the strategic direction for their discipline in line with department procedures and with support from the Substation Senior Leadership Team.
• Support Lead Designer during tender development. Responsible for ensuring the budget, programme and risks for their team’s activities for each tender are adequate and provided in a timely manner.
• Track and report on progress and key issues to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Ensure succession plans are in place for their own role, as well for any other key roles within the team (Principal Design Engineers, CDAE, Technical Experts, etc.).
• Liaise with Project Controls team to ensure all staff relevant information is up to date and facilitate PARAM setup and implementation to support Engineering Managers where required.
• Actively promote and demonstrate Group values and behaviours through day-to-day work.

Who we're looking for

Skills Required:

• Degree or equivalent in Civil, Electrical or Power Engineering disciplines.
• Ideally a corporate member of, or working towards corporate membership of, an Engineering Institution (e.g. ICE, IEEE, IMechE).
• Previous experience in the Power industry, coupled with familiarity with NG, SSE, SPEN and DNO technical specifications.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being able to relate to people at all levels in an organisation and to establish and maintain respect both professionally and personally.

Why work for us

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

This is your chance to join a growing business with the opportunities to develop and further your career in a multi disciplined specialist environment that will challenge you on a daily basis.

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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