Engineering Manager - Enabling & Earthworks - Sizewell C - Suffolk site based

Balfour Beatty plc; Leiston; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working up to 40% remote

25 days annual leave

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and coordinate civil earthworks and enabling works for the SZC project on the Suffolk coast. The role is site-based to drive delivery excellence through robust engineering processes.

You will manage multi-discipline interfaces, develop delivery strategies, and work with client, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure right-first-time execution. This is a senior role with safety, quality and schedule a priority.

Qualifications

• Essential civil engineering degree or equivalent.
• Experience of managing temporary works on large projects.
• Experience with surface water and groundwater in earthworks.
• Chartered or working towards chartership (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate construction engineering for enabling and earthworks during delivery.
• Ensure delivery excellence through engineering processes and best practices on site.
• Establish organisation and resources to meet project technical requirements.
• Coordinate with technical leads, client, and stakeholders on complex interfaces.
• Collaborate with procurement, commercial, information management and project controls to ensure robust delivery.

Skills

Engineering management

Temporary works

Site coordination

Civil engineering

Education

Civil engineering degree

Job description

About the role

Be part of this ‘once in a generation’ project that will deliver clean energy to 6 million homes for the next 60 years. Sizewell C will see the creation of a 3.2 Gigawatt nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast to provide reliable load low-carbon electricity.

The Civil Works Alliance is an extended delivery enterprise involving Sizewell C and three international construction companies: Balfour Beatty, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke.

We are more than just an alliance, we are bringing together a single delivery organisation with years of learning and experience from other major complex infrastructure programmes worldwide

What you'll be doing

The Sizewell C (SZC) project requires an Engineering Manager to lead, manage and coordinate construction engineering for the Enabling Works and Earthworks portions during the delivery phase. The role is site based to ensure Engineering Delivery Excellence through adoption of engineering processes, procedures and best practice. The scope of the Earthworks and Enabling works forms the initial portion of the Civil Works Programme for the SZC project and includes the construction of significant civil engineering elements critical to the construction and operation of SZC. These include access bridges, sea defence, retaining structures, environmental barriers, TBM Launch Shafts and marine delivery structures.

The Engineering Manager will manage right first-time delivery of engineering activities, coordinating across the disciplines of Methods, Temporary/Permanent Works, Digital Engineering, Quality, Materials and Survey. The Engineering Manager will be required to establish the organisation and resource structure with the skills and experience to deliver the project technical requirements for a section of these works.

Successful management will involve working alongside technical leads for pre-construction and engineering disciplines, client and stakeholders to manage complex technical interfaces. The complexity of the works will require that the Engineering Manager is able to work in collaboration with support functions including procurement, commercial, information management, digital engineering and project controls to ensure that robust project management principles are in place to support efficient delivery.

The Engineering Manager will be required to establish and manage a delivery strategy in accordance with the procedures set out by the industry, the Civil Works alliance and Sizewell C.

Who we're looking for

Desirable

• Marine structures.
• Deep foundations.
• Surveying on construction sites.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Civil engineering degree or equivalent
• Experience of managing temporary works
• Experience of managing surface water and groundwater in earthworks

Desirable

• Chartered or working towards chartership

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 Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.

From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.

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 [e-mail]