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Project Engineer

Balfour Beatty plc

Aberdeen City

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Join a leading engineering company as a Project Engineer in the Power Transmission and Distribution team. You will manage infrastructure projects, ensuring quality and safety while motivating a team of engineers. This role offers the chance to influence the direction of critical infrastructure projects, backed by excellent benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Site Allowances
Company Car
Flexible working options
Generous leave
Pension scheme
Share schemes

Qualifications

  • Experience delivering electrical engineering projects.
  • Knowledge of project management methodology.
  • Full UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

  • Manage, monitor, and motivate multi-skilled teams.
  • Set performance targets to ensure safety and quality.
  • Deliver activities on time and within budget.

Skills

People management
Commercial awareness
Relationship management

Job description

About the role

Our projects are more than just opportunities to make your mark. They’re a chance to stretch, test, and develop your expertise.

Join our Power Transmission and Distribution team as a Project Engineer with Electrical Engineering experience on our Operational Team and deliver complex work that matters to our business and the world around us.

As a Project Engineer, your role will be:

  1. To formalize and specify a delivery solution,
  2. To brief out the solution to the working party and ensure it is followed and completed

In return, we offer you:

£Competitive - DOA + excellent benefits including Site Allowances, Company Car, and Subsistence Allowances (Subject to T&Cs of role)

Opportunity to shape what’s next in a pivotal project management role with an industry leader. Your work as a Project Engineer will matter — to infrastructure, engineering experts, colleagues, and society, as you help shape large-scale Power engineering projects.

What you'll be doing

Our award-winning project management team offers you the chance to:

  1. Secure a future in an industry with significant investment
  2. Contribute to building sustainable power for the future
  3. Manage, monitor, and motivate a multi-skilled team of engineers, subcontractors, and construction experts
  4. Take responsibility for smaller projects or sections of larger projects
  5. Set performance targets and analyze to ensure safety and quality standards
  6. Participate in procurement of subcontractors
  7. Progress quickly and explore professional passions and career paths
  8. Develop and deliver engineered solutions and briefings
  9. Deliver activities safely, sustainably, on time, within budget, and to quality standards
  10. Monitor and record works for compliance
  11. Support and develop a thriving working environment
  12. Manage and care for the delivery team

Who we're looking for

You will have:

  1. Experience and a track record in delivering electrical engineering projects
  2. Experience supporting large infrastructure projects in our industry
  3. Knowledge of Project Management methodology
  4. Strong people management skills and commercial awareness, including budget and financial control
  5. Excellent relationship management skills
  6. Full UK Driving Licence

Why work for us

Our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious projects, developing and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports the economy and communities.

Why join us?

Contribute to impactful work and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible working options, generous leave, pension, share schemes, and more.

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with network owners and operators to provide engineering solutions across the electricity grid, supporting projects from design to maintenance.

Diversity and inclusion

We value diversity and inclusion, striving to create a culture where everyone can thrive. We are recognized as a Gold Award holder and actively encourage applications from armed forces personnel, veterans, reservists, and individuals with disabilities. For more info, visit our diversity page.

We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment processes. For feedback, contact candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.

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