Senior Temporary Works Designer

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Senior Temporary Works Designer to build new futures.
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale projects in various locations throughout Scotland you will work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.
What you’ll be doing

ROLE PURPOSE:

As a Senior Temporary Works Designer, you work with the various sections within the Regional Business to deliver technical support and service to site teams and Work Winning Team.
This includes input to Permanent Works where there is an interface with Temporary Works methodology and sequencing. Temporary Works support Balfour Beatty Regional Businesses such as Balfour Beatty Power, Rail and Major Projects as required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for meeting temporary works design requirements and delivering them to time and budget.
• Investigate alternative designs for temporary works, working with the site teams.
• Report on the progress of designs.
• Ensure a suitable temporary works design brief and programme of requirements is received.
• Ensure design risks are considered and prepare Designers Risk Assessments, communicating residual design risks as appropriate e.g on drawings.
• Ensure that contract-specified design checks are carried out and provide the appropriate manager with completed check certificates.
• Provide strong technical support in value engineering temporary works and in identifying innovative and robust solutions.
• Lead or support temporary works assurance on projects through conducting audits and regular meetings with project teams, identifying best practice, areas for improvement and areas of concern.
• Ensures a relentless focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of Sustainability activities
  Who we’re looking for

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