Balfour Beatty is currently seeking a Structural Design Engineer to join their Power T&D team in Derby.
With excellent structural analysis skills your role will be to deliver such design calculations, engineering drawings and documents that enable a safe and constructable engineered solution.
You will ideally have some knowledge of lattice type structures.
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 duties
- Review designs and design calculations produced by other engineers or apprentices to ensure the designs are appropriate and can be manufactured and constructed safely in accordance with contract documents and/ or current best practice.
- Produce appropriate designs and design calculations for review by a principal/senior structural design engineer, that can be manufactured and constructed safely in accordance with contract documents and/ or current best practice, and ensure all associated drawings produced represent the design as intended.
- Practice Safety and Sustainability by Design in all design work ensuring compliance with CDM regulations.
- Assist in the analysis and resolution of design issues.
- Communicate as required with other business functions, consultants, clients, and operational teams to ensure projects are delivered to the agreed scope of works, design parameters/methodologies, and engineering programme.
- Visit operational sites and other offices to discuss design issues and to assist in the development of solutions to operational issues.
- Analyse and understand tender documents to produce engineering tenders for review by engineering managers, that, state the scope of work to be undertaken, identify the engineering tasks and associated cost allocations, develop engineering programmes, and identify any significant risk.
- Proactively manage own work commitments to project timescales.
- Liaise with engineering managers, principal structural design engineers, senior structural design engineers and other engineers or apprentices as required.
- Support the Chief Engineer – Structures, to deliver technical improvement and innovation.
- Undertake training as required to enable effective achievement of objectives.
- Undertake other such duties as may be required by the Design Delivery Manager - Structures.
Who we're looking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil/Structural or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- Excellent structural analysis skills, ability to solve problems from first principles.
- Good communication skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Knowledge of lattice type structures.
- Experience with BS EN 1993-1-1 2005; BS EN 1993-3-1 2006; BS EN 50341-2-9-UK NNA (2017).
- Experience with Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis, Bentley Staad Pro and PLS CADD/TOWER, etc.
- Working towards IEng/CEng.
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.
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.