Mechanical Engineer

Are you a dynamic Mechanical Engineer ready to elevate your career to new heights? We're actively seeking a passionate individual to join our team in a full-time permanent role, where you'll play a pivotal part in the ground-breaking HS2 project, Britain's futuristic high-speed railway., Shape the world of tomorrow as a Mechanical Engineer with an infrastructure leader. Developing your engineering skills on inspiring projects with people who really know their stuff, you'll get to explore career paths across the biggest organisation of our kind. We build landmarks. We build futures. And together, we build up our engineers to become the best at what they do., As a Mechanical Engineer with us, you'll discover a breadth of projects you wont find elsewhere. Working on the largest scales, you will:

• Support the senior project team in the overall implementation of the engineering strategy and framework for the designated project


• Manage materials, plant and labour within the allocated budget and resources, ensuring their safe, effective and efficient delivery of service on the project


• Ensure all systems, design information, procedures and quality systems are effectively communicated


• Support the project delivery teams, verifying the work of others, providing technical support


• Lead or support assurance on projects through conducting audits and regular meetings with project teams, identifying best practice, areas for improvement and areas of concern, including matters relating to safety, finance or quality


• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant customers including technical

consultants and suppliers, managing their input in the design, development, pricing and delivery of technical solutions on site

• Maintain personal expertise and knowledge to ensure that the company is at the

forefront of the industry both technically and in using the latest technologies and standards

• Provide coaching and motivation to the project team, to deliver high performance on the project and create a culture of continuous improvement.


• Ensure that the engineering is efficiently managed so that it is fit for purpose from conception right through installation and maintenance; recognising site conditions and constraints and taking into account CDM, other statutory regulations and customer requirements


• Ensure the efficient operation of procurement, material control policies and procedures; providing assistance in producing accurate and current procurement schedules and cost information/reports (where required)


• By using the principles of quality assurance, and where appropriate technical Integrity, ensure the customer requirements are clearly understood and that Quality Control mechanisms are in place that provide assurance that the asset and/or service delivers as designed/required


• Contribute to the accurate and efficient provision of progress and productivity reports weekly and monthly to senior management, in accordance with company procedures


• Provide concise and accurate feedback on project performance against estimate to the estimating function (where required)


• Seek to understand and implement the appropriate digital tool sets to support the project execution


• Live the Balfour Beatty Values


• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm


• Support the delivery of UKCSs Sustainability activities
  
  Making an impact every day as a Mechanical Engineer, you'll need:


• A degree in a relevant engineering discipline and a relevant professional qualification, such as MICE or MCIBSE, an ONC/HNC or equivalent knowledge is required.


• Previous Mechanical engineering experience and a subject matter expert in the discipline of engineering discipline is required.


• Up-to-date relevant knowledge of engineering and of industry best practice, appropriate to the relevant discipline, is required.


• A valid CSCS card is required.


• Focused and thorough with the appropriate skills to advise senior management when something needs immediate redress together with the tenacity and drive to ensure that the necessary action is taken.


• Previous management experience within the construction or relevant support services industries, together with a strong understanding of technical issues and trends in the relevant sectors, including specialist markets is required.


• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners and delivery team members under time pressure, and a customer centric, flexible approach.


• A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on engineering excellence, the customer and the business is required.


• An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce

appropriate reports from them is desirable.

In UK Construction Services England & Wales business, our aim is to be the partner of choice; the go-to in our sector, trusted to deliver for our customers. We work across a huge and exciting range of sectors, including aviation, building, civils, defence and energy.

From ground investigations and flood defence to complex roads and bridges; primary schools to world class universities; ground-breaking hospitals to city centre living; the depth of our experience and quality of our projects is something we are proud of.

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.