Senior Temporary Works Designer

**About the role** Job Title**:Senior Temporary Works Designer**

**Location: Various Sites around Scotland**

**Project Type: Civils**

**Company: Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited (UK).**

**About Us**:
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international infrastructure group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a **Senior Temporary Works Designer** **to build new futures.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of **large-scale civils projects around Scotland** you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
**What you'll be doing** Role Purpose**:
As a **Senior Temporary Works Designer, **you work with the various sections within the Regional Business to deliver technical support and service to site teams and Work Winning Team.

This includes input to Permanent Works where there is an interface with Temporary Works methodology and sequencing. Temporary Works support Balfour Beatty Regional Businesses such as Balfour Beatty Power, Rail and Major Projects as required.

**Interfaces**
- Internal
- Other Senior Temporary Works Engineer, Project delivery
- External
- Designers, site teams, supply chain, JV partners, customers, 3rd parties, Permanent Works Consultants (e.g Consulting Engineers, Architects, Services Engineers)

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for meeting temporary works design requirements and delivering them to time and budget.
- Investigate alternative designs for temporary works, working with the site teams.
- Report on the progress of designs.
- Ensure a suitable temporary works design brief and programme of requirements is received.
- Ensure design risks are considered and prepare Designers Risk Assessments, communicating residual design risks as appropriate e.g on drawings.
- Ensure that contract-specified design checks are carried out and provide the appropriate manager with completed check certificates.
- Provide strong technical support in value engineering temporary works and in identifying innovative and robust solutions.
- Lead or support temporary works assurance on projects through conducting audits and regular meetings with project teams, identifying best practice, areas for improvement and areas of concern.
- Ensures a relentless focus on Zero Harm
- Support the delivery of Sustainability activities

**Who we're looking for** Essential**:

- Has thorough knowledge of engineering principles
- Knowledge and experience in use of Standards e.g Eurocodes, BS's, DMRB etc.
- Achieved CEng MICE or equivalent.
- Can demonstrate an awareness of methodology costs and understanding of theimportance of option reviews.
- Has previous experience of site based activities
- Maintains up to date technical knowledge
- Has strong numeracy capability and able to use analysis software e.g CADS pile wall suite, Autocad, Civils 3D, Revit, Robot...
- Has strong skills in Microsoft Office software, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Has good report writing skills
- Pays attention to detail and will see tasks through to completion
- Good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales
- Is a self-starter who can manage their own time and proactively seeks and executes activities that will add value to their function

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

- A degree in a relevant engineering discipline is desirable, membership of a relevant professional body is advantageous.
- Holding a valid CSCS card to visit sites is desirable.
- Ability to produce temporary works engineering drawings using Autodesk.
- AutoCAD and / or Civils 3D software
- Knowledge of the construction industry or experience within a project based organisation.

**Professional and personal development**

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We ac