Technical Assurance Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Grays; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Annual leave 25 days

Pension scheme

Share incentive plan

Volunteer leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking an experienced Technical Assurance Manager to lead the integration, management and assurance of design solutions across the full project lifecycle. The role collaborates with commercial, engineering, production and asset stakeholders to ensure design outputs are coordinated, compliant and buildable.

The position emphasizes design maturity, progressive assurance, BIM, and value-driven decision-making from concept through handover, with a hybrid flexible work model in

Qualifications

• Experience supporting design management and technical assurance on complex infrastructure projects.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder engagement skills in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Good understanding of design maturity, assurance processes, and handover readiness.
• Working knowledge of BIM and modern procurement routes.
• Relevant professional membership (or working toward) such as ICE, IET, CIBSE, RIBA, or equivalent.
• Valid CSCS card and strong IT capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration and assurance of design solutions across the full project lifecycle.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary design inputs, including M&E, specialists, subcontractors, and third-party contributors.
• Manage design packages, ensuring clarity of scope, interfaces, timely delivery, and technical review.
• Provide input on constructability, sequencing, temporary works integration, commissioning, and maintenance considerations.
• Oversee design information production, models, and documentation in line with BIM requirements.
• Support handover by coordinating as-built information and handover documentation.

Skills

Design management experience

Technical assurance

Stakeholder engagement

BIM knowledge

MS Office proficiency

Tools

BIM

MS Office

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced and driven Technical Assurance Manager to lead the integration, management, and assurance of design solutions across the full project lifecycle—from concept through construction to handover. This is a pivotal role working at the heart of delivery, collaborating with commercial, engineering, production, and asset stakeholders to ensure that all design outputs are coordinated, compliant, and buildable.

This role offers the opportunity to shape complex infrastructure projects by embedding best practice in design management, progressive assurance, digital engineering, and value-driven decision‑making—ensuring excellence from concept through to operational handover.

What you'll be doing

Design Management & Integration

• Support the development and coordination of design proposals in line with Employer’s Requirements, statutory obligations, budget constraints, and programme commitments.
• Provide technical input on constructability, sequencing, temporary works integration, commissioning, and maintenance considerations.

Technical Assurance & Governance

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design inputs, including M&E, specialist designers, subcontractors, novated designers, and third‑party contributors.
• Manage allocated subcontractor design packages, ensuring scope clarity, interface alignment, timely delivery, and appropriate technical review.

Progressive Assurance & Design Maturity

• Coordinate multidisciplinary design inputs, including M&E, specialist designers, subcontractors, novated designers, and third‑party contributors.
• Provide technical input on constructability, sequencing, temporary works integration, commissioning, and maintenance considerations.

Programme, Information & BIM

• Manage assigned elements of the design deliverables programme, ensuring alignment with construction and commissioning requirements.
• Coordinate the production of design information, models, and documentation in line with contractual and BIM requirements.

Model Maturity (3D and 5D)

• Support the progressive development of 3D and 5D models in line with the Design Maturity Roadmap and assurance requirements.
• Work with BIM, planning, and commercial teams to ensure models support:
• Multidisciplinary coordination and clash avoidance
• Construction planning and sequencing
• Quantification and cost forecasting
• Risk identification and option evaluation

Construction Phase Support

• Provide technical support during construction, assisting with resolution of design queries, RFIs, and non‑conformances.
• Support assurance of design changes, ensuring technical justification and appropriate approval.

Handover & Close‑Out

• Support assurance of design outputs to enable effective commissioning, handover, and transition into operation.
• Coordinate the production, review, and assurance of as‑built information and handover documentation.

Wider Project Integration

• Support stakeholder engagement by communicating design maturity, confidence levels, and technical risk at key milestones.
• Ensure design maturity and assurance outputs inform risk management, procurement strategy, and commercial confidence.

Who we’re looking for

• Experience supporting design management and technical assurance on complex infrastructure projects.
• Strong coordination and stakeholder engagement skills in a multi‑disciplinary environment.
• Good understanding of design maturity, assurance processes, and handover readiness.
• Working knowledge of BIM and modern procurement routes.
• Relevant professional membership (or working toward) such as ICE, IET, CIBSE, RIBA, or equivalent.
• Valid CSCS card.
• Strong IT capability (Microsoft Office essential).
• Clear and effective technical communication and reporting skills.

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?

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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

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]