Temporary Works Engineer - Power Transmission

Balfour Beatty plc; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working (up to 40% remote)

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Power Transmission & Distribution is seeking a Temporary Works Engineer to lead onsite TW activities across UK sites, develop design briefs with site teams, and ensure safe, cost-effective temporary works solutions. You will support design and construction across PT&D, maintaining strong governance and collaboration with BB Group partners.

The role requires extensive TW/Civils experience, BS5975 knowledge, and excellent communication and safety awareness.

Qualifications

• BEng in Civil Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional Membership and working towards IEng status or equivalent.
• Experience preferably with a temporary works/civils/utilities background, with a significant & wide range of temporary works construction experience.
• Working knowledge of BS5975 procedural control requirements.
• Ability to distil complex scheme requirements into clear and concise design briefs.
• Ability to identify hazards associated with temporary works activities.
• Excellent communications & team working skills.
• Sound health & safety knowledge relating to site and design activities.
• Good IT Skills.
• Knowledge of subject area and able to communicate clearly engineering constraints

Responsibilities

• Leadership of the onsite control of all Temporary Works activities.
• Support all design & construction activities across all the workstreams of Power T&D.
• Develop and maintain proactive and positive relationships with all key stakeholders within PT&D and across the wider Balfour Beatty Group.
• Understand the importance of corporate governance and ensure consistent measures and standards are applied.
• Ensure Balfour Beatty’s temporary works are controlled in line with their BS5975 procedures.
• Ensuring each project in the region has a TWC appointed; TW items are identified and planned.
• Develop comprehensive Design Briefs in consultation with site and design teams to ensure practical, cost effective and safe solutions are sourced.
• Undertaking constructability reviews and checks on supplier designs, typically scaffolds and excavation shoring.
• Assist with the development of tenders, identifying TW requirements, detailing outline solutions and associated costs.
• Optioneering and solution development for a variety of TW solutions.
• Ensuring hazards are identified in the design brief and residual design risks are controlled during construction and use via risk assessments and method statements.
• Manage change control during design and construction.
• To assess & identify temporary works requirements on each project, this could include: Access, protection and lifting scaffolding; Excavation support; Formwork; Piling & Cranage; Access roads; Catenary Support System; Backstays & temporary steelwork; Temporary overhead line diversions.
• Creation and maintenance of schedules to track and control schemes’ temporary works.
• To identify competent designers, suppliers & operatives and co-ordinate & supervise their work.
• Undertake simple (Cat 0/1) temporary works designs.
• Ensure business processes and systems for Temporary Works are implemented.
• Ongoing development of TW & Operational site staff.
• Audit and competency assess BB projects & suppliers

Skills

Experience with temporary works and aC

Education

BEng in Civil Engineering or equivalent

Professional Membership and working towards IEng status

Job description

Balfour Beatty Power Transmission & Distribution is seeking a Temporary Works Engineer to lead onsite TW activities across UK sites, develop design briefs with site teams, and ensure safe, cost-effective temporary works solutions. You will support design and construction across PT&D, maintaining strong governance and collaboration with BB Group partners.

The role requires extensive TW/Civils experience, BS5975 knowledge, and excellent communication and safety awareness.