About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Contractors Engineering Manager to join our Rail team to work in Exeter.

Role Purpose:

To work with design organisations to deliver approved for construction design of multiple work packages covering primarily lineside civil engineering. Specific tasks will cover:

• Produce written scope documents for tendering and awarding work;
• Manage design interfaces with relevant interfacing disciplines;
• Monitor progress of design delivery, manage change and resolve issues;
• Keep control of costs and encourage cost effective solutions;
• Ensure design risk assessments are carried out and residual risk is transferred;
• Work with the construction team to ensure buildable designs are produced.

What you'll be doing

As a Contractors Engineering Manager you will:

• Deliver all design in accordance with NR standard NR/L2/CIV/003 and NR/L2/RSE/02009;
• Prepare design briefs for pricing for Remits as they are received;
• Maintain a design tracker for all live proposed design works;
• Manage document control and maintain registers during design delivery;
• Contribute to internal IDR / IDC design reviews;
• CAD compliance from design sub-contractors;
• Develop and maintain strong Client and Stakeholder relationships;
• As-built drawings are delivered once construction completes.

Who we're looking for

Personal Qualities and Experience:

• Knowledge and experience of Network Rail design process;
• Previous experience of the IDC / IDR process;
• Application of value engineering processes;
• Strong team worker and experience of collaborative/partnering working arrangements;
• Understanding of electronic document management systems and their importance;
• Attention to detail;
• Experience of temporary work design;
• Ideally IEng, CEng or working towards;
• Membership of professional body;
• Report weekly to CEM on design progress and critical issues;
• Chair regular design progress meetings.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Balfour Beatty Rail Limited is an international leader in rail infrastructure engineering projects and the UK's largest rail engineering and services provider. We offer a full range of rail infrastructure activities from high-speed rail to mass rapid transit, covering urban, rural and commuter routes, for both public and private railways.

For an example of the exciting work our rail teams undertake click here: