About the role
Shape your career in construction with some of the best in the business. When it comes to design management challenges, we pool our creativity and ambition to make big things happen. Our size and stability mean there’s always something new to get stuck into, exciting design and engineering career opportunities to explore, and invaluable experiences to grow from. Join us as a Civils Design Manager and open up your future to more.
Balfour Beatty currently have an excellent opportunity for a Civils Design Manager to join our UK Construction teams in the North of Scotland.
Core duties will involve supporting the site-based Buildings project teams during design development stages of building projects across Civil, Structural and Architectural disciplines.
Supporting implementation and managing the control of the design process to ensure that the design and procurement of specialist packages are delivered to meet project requirements in line with cost parameters.
Consulting with Work Winning/Project Delivery teams by providing design input and cost-effective solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage the development and implementation of design proposals ensuring they meet customer requirements including budget constraints, presenting proposals for approval to the customer. The design should deliver:
• Safety in construction and use
• Quality within affordable parameters
• Ease of maintenance, energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact
• Innovation to meet customer goals and positive impact on the local community.
• Manage and ensure effective briefing of the Design Team. This includes, where necessary, the management of any 3rd parties or novated design teams to ensure that they meet all customer specifications, and where necessary, checking the competence and resources of any incumbent design teams or 3rd parties.
• Provide advice and guidance on the “buildability” of the design proposals to the design and construction teams on all packages.
• Oversight across all statutory body / authority stakeholders as required including in relation to planning, building control and utilities e.g. gas and water.
• Support the Safety by Design & Engineering forum or other similar forums, representing the business stream, as required
• Lead the development and management of the design deliverables programme:
• Ensure there is a clear schedule of design deliverables
• Lead gate reviews activities to ensure that they are timely and appropriate sign off is achieved at each project gate to include appropriate communication to Bid Managers and other Design/Work Winning team members as required
• Lead the co-ordination and production of design data, bid deliverables, reports and documentation essential to the project and contractual requirements and report progress against the design deliverables programme.
• Lead the implementation of the BIM CSUK protocols, including teamwork and collaboration and the management and sharing of data relating to BIM models
• Liaise with our BIM management during the bid and construction stages ensuring the supply chain is fully aware of BIM requirements
• Consider the application of Lean construction techniques to save money, reduce waste and optimise construction.
• Ensure that learning and best practice is captured from the bid/project with the aim of sharing it across the business stream and the CSUK business.
• Proactively contribute to the Risk and Value Management process
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage the development and implementation of design proposals ensuring they meet customer requirements including budget constraints, presenting proposals for approval to the customer. The design should deliver:
• Safety in construction and use
• Quality within affordable parameters
• Ease of maintenance, energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact
• Innovation to meet customer goals and positive impact on the local community.
• Manage and ensure effective briefing of the Design Team. This includes, where necessary, the management of any 3rd parties or novated design teams to ensure that they meet all customer specifications, and where necessary, checking the competence and resources of any incumbent design teams or 3rd parties.
• Provide advice and guidance on the “buildability” of the design proposals to the design and construction teams on all packages.
• Oversight across all statutory body / authority stakeholders as required including in relation to planning, building control and utilities e.g. gas and water.
• Support the Safety by Design & Engineering forum or other similar forums, representing the business stream, as required
• Lead the development and management of the design deliverables programme:
• Ensure there is a clear schedule of design deliverables
• Lead gate reviews activities to ensure that they are timely and appropriate sign off is achieved at each project gate to include appropriate communication to Bid Managers and other Design/Work Winning team members as required
• Lead the co-ordination and production of design data, bid deliverables, reports and documentation essential to the project and contractual requirements and report progress against the design deliverables programme.
• Lead the implementation of the BIM CSUK protocols, including teamwork and collaboration and the management and sharing of data relating to BIM models
• Liaise with our BIM management during the bid and construction stages ensuring the supply chain is fully aware of BIM requirements
• Consider the application of Lean construction techniques to save money, reduce waste and optimise construction.
• Ensure that learning and best practice is captured from the bid/project with the aim of sharing it across the business stream and the CSUK business.
• Proactively contribute to the Risk and Value Management process
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities

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