Project Engineer - Aberdeen

BALFOUR BEATTY-4; Scotland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading team at Balfour Beatty as a Project Engineer, where you'll impact the future of Power Transmission and Distribution. You'll manage projects, ensuring safety, quality, and compliance while leading a skilled team. Enjoy competitive salary and benefits, shaping infrastructure that supports communities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Paid leave

Pension scheme

Share plans

Volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering electrical engineering projects.
• Knowledge of Project Management methodology.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and motivate a multi-skilled team.
• Take responsibility for smaller projects or sections of larger projects.
• Deliver activities safely, sustainably, and on time.

Skills

People Management

Relationship Management

Commercial Awareness

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 to deliver complex work that matters to our business and the world around us.

As a Project Engineer, your role will be:

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

In return, we offer you:

Competitive GBP salary + excellent benefits including Site Allowances, Company Car, and Subsistence Allowances (Subject to T&C's of role).

Opportunity to shape the future in a pivotal project management role with an industry leader. Your work as a Project Engineer will impact society by helping us develop large-scale Power engineering projects.

What you'll be doing

Joining our award-winning project management team as a Project Engineer, you'll:

• Secure a future in an industry with significant investment
• Contribute to building sustainable Power for the future
• Manage, monitor, and motivate a multi-skilled team of engineers, subcontractors, and construction experts
• Take responsibility for smaller projects or sections of larger projects
• Set performance targets and analyze to ensure safety and quality standards
• Be involved in procurement of subcontractors
• Benefit from our scale and diversity by progressing quickly and exploring career paths
• Develop and deliver engineered solutions and briefs to the working party
• Deliver activities safely, sustainably, on time, within budget, and to quality standards
• Monitor and record work for compliance
• Support a thriving and successful working environment
• Manage and care for the people delivering the work

Who we're looking for

You will have:

• Experience and a track record in delivering electrical engineering projects
• Experience supporting large infrastructure projects in our industry
• Knowledge of Project Management methodology
• Strong People Management and Commercial awareness, with knowledge of budgeting and financial control
• Excellent relationship management skills
• 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 economies and communities.

Why join us?

We offer a rewarding environment with benefits such as flexible working, paid leave, pension, share plans, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and more.

About us

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work on projects across the electricity grid, providing technical solutions from design to maintenance.

Diversity and inclusion

We value diversity and inclusion, actively promoting an inclusive culture. We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists. We are a Disability Confident Employer and aim to remove barriers for applicants with disabilities.