About the role
Shape your career in construction with some of the best in the business. When it comes to design management challenges, we pool our creativity and ambition to make big things happen. Our size and stability mean theres always something new to get stuck into, exciting design and engineering career opportunities to explore, and invaluable experiences to grow from.
Join us as a MEICA Technical Manager and open up your future to more, working withing our Regional Civils teams and projects.
This role can be based anywhere in the UK covering multiple exciting projects.
What you'll be doing
The key areas of accountability of the role including business objectives, and client satisfaction:
- Lead on engaging with various client teams on technical issues support and guide to find the correct solutions. To be seen as the Subject Matter Expert.
- At feasibility work as part of the preconstruction team in developing the right MEICA strategy for projects engaging with supply chain and designers on suitable systems to support the feasibility.
- Guide the development of detailed design information and comment in relation to technical compliance.
- Review of supply chain design information and comment in relation to technical compliance and initiation of Value Engineering ideas. This to involve developing hand marked design solutions to support estimating teams on occasion.
- Liaison with commercial team members to ensure understanding of clients requirements and to review solutions. Review key plant and equipment selections at tender stage particularly related to VE or alternative design solutions.
- Monitoring of external design consultants progress and performance during project delivery and supporting internal project team where issues arise.
- Lead in the MEICA elements in progressive technical reviews.
- Provide technical review of external Consultants design throughout various Stages of the project design delivery and supporting internal project team where issues arise.
- Good understanding of MEICA type projects and applying this to project solutions.
- Attend design and client meetings when necessary.
- Awareness of project design delivery requirements in line with programme.
- Lead on ensuring supply chain testing, commissioning and MEICA validation is integrated and delivered in accordance with the delivery programme.
- Follow BMS and QA procedures.
Who we're looking for
Achieving Results:
- Ensuring technically compliant and economic design solutions are developed for design stages design stage
- Schedules, prioritises and reviews own work
- Analytical thinking/ Decision making
- Ability to select economic solutions at tender stage
- Understanding of time and implications of decisions
Teamwork:
- Collaborates with members of the preconstruction and operational
teams to achieve common goals
Personal Qualities:
- Good IT skills
- Commitment/support
- Team player
- Good communicator
Education Levels:
Qualified to a minimum of HNC/HND through completion a technical
apprenticeship, or degree level in Mechanical or Electrical engineering.
Chartered Engineer would be desirable but not essential.
Specific technical knowledge/skills:
- UK Construction and particularly related to the Environment Agency
- Experience within the engineering/construction industry with some design experience from conception to completion of a contract
- Understanding of design interface and site issues including testing and commissioning.
- Knowledge of codes of practice, British Standards, CDM 2015
- Awareness/knowledge of environmental issues i.e. BREEAM (including Infrastructure), Building Regulations and Building Safety Regulation
Why work for us
If youre inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a MEICA Technical Manager. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you'll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. You'll also discover Smart Working. Its our flexible approach to when, where and how you work, and at the heart of a warm and inclusive culture that supports you to be you. Apply now.
About us
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you.
To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website at https://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/A
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with 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.
Further information about Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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