Utilities Design Manager - London

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About the role

Join our team as a Utilities Design Manager, responsible for the successful management and delivery of utilities design for the Lower Thames Crossing project for the Power T&D Business.

The Utilities Design Manager will oversee contestable and non-contestable utilities designs, ensuring efficient coordination with main works and ancillary designs, including temporary works.

You will lead design teams, ensuring clarity of scope and efficient delivery on time and within budget, in compliance with project requirements and statutory undertaker standards. The role involves engaging with internal and external stakeholders, managing relationships, and driving innovation to support our initiative to reduce site-based construction activity by 25% by 2025.

What you'll be doing

• Manage detailed design delivery, ensuring integration and coordination with project stakeholders.
• Ensure designs consider construction methodology, sequence, temporary works, and environmental and sustainability objectives.
• Produce and review detailed design deliverables, including models and drawings.
• Encourage design innovation and value engineering.
• Communicate design intent efficiently with operations teams, third parties, and clients.
• Ensure compliance with client, utility company, and Balfour Beatty processes and specifications, as well as external approving bodies.
• Participate in design review meetings and contribute to design deliverables documents.
• Track and respond to technical queries and requests for information.
• Prepare designs in accordance with agreed programmes, resources, and budget constraints.
• Communicate risks and changes promptly, supporting risk mitigation and change management processes.
• Foster a collaborative approach to integrated infrastructure projects.
• Promote a 'Right First Time' culture and operational excellence.

Who we're looking for

• Multi-disciplinary design management experience within a construction or engineering environment, including contestable utilities delivery processes.
• Experience coordinating and managing both contestable and non-contestable utilities design on major transport projects.
• Ability to constructively challenge and optimise design solutions.
• Proficiency with digital information management systems (e.g., CAD, ProjectWise, GIS).
• Experience in client and stakeholder management, including liaison with statutory undertakers.
• Good working knowledge of CDM 2015 Regulations and designer/Principal Designer duties.
• Knowledge of the New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) 1991 and National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) guidance.
• Commitment to health and safety principles in line with Balfour Beatty's Zero Harm philosophy.
• Experience delivering design to defined budgets and programmes.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (CSCS, SMSTS desirable).

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.

Why join us?

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

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com