Head of Innovation

6 months ago

Derby, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role** Balfour Beatty Power T&D** have a fantastic opportunity for a **Head of Innovation** to join their rapidly growing business. The role will manage the continuous improvement and innovations for the expanding portfolio of projects. The focus will be on process improvements that drive productivity, improve safety, reduce costs, give programme assurance and create effective and efficient ways of delivery. The role would suit an applicant with a mind for innovation and problem solving. They will support the business in achieving the implementation of new innovative techniques and methods to improve our culture and contribute to achieving the project delivery.

Balfour Beatty operate a smart working policy allowing for a balance between office/site and home working.
**What you'll be doing**

Key Responsibilities:

- Analyse current work practices to identify areas for improvement and educate as to how to improve business and deliverable processes.
- Devise and test solutions and roll out new ways of working.
- Value stream mapping, identifying inefficiencies in productivity with a particular focus on layouts, sequencing and programme improvements.
- Recommend to management changes that can cut waste from operating procedures.
- Deploy appropriate methodologies to problem solving and support teams to solve problems. Ensure the escalation process for problem solving is effective.
- Support the business in establishing “best practice”.
- Foster the growth of Operational Excellence behaviours within the business through coaching, mentoring, and training teams and championing performance excellence.
- Support the development of our strategic delivery and supply chain partners on site to ensure they are part of the improvement process and culture.
- Liaise and communicate with other departments, customers, suppliers, educational institutes, innovation centres and other service providers.
- Ensure an effective interface with teams and individuals is maintained.
- Feedback to the Management team to share ideas and improve operations, recommending, supporting and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimise results and improve quality of delivery, in line with the project, business and client quality standard requirements.
- Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures.

**Who we're looking for**
- Blue sky thinker and ability to work on own initiative.
- A demonstrable track record of delivering and embedding innovations and new ways of working in challenging environments.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to win hearts and minds to get colleagues on board with change.
- The grit, gravitas, and resilience to move innovations through the embedding process from concept to BAU.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to present data effectively.
- Understanding of cost and financial impacts of change.

**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?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK07642

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