Technical Manager (Water infrastructure) - Peterborough

Balfour Beatty; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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About the role

Technical Manager (Water infrastructure) - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies - Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO - delivering over half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

We are looking for a Technical Manager (Water infrastructure) to lead the engineering design process from feasibility to detailed design. The Technical Manager will drive the delivery of potable water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with relevant standards while promoting safe, efficient, and sustainable solutions.

This role sits within a collaborative Design and Build environment, requiring engagement with internal and external stakeholders. The focus is on developing innovative and cost-effective engineering designs for construction and operational stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the engineering design delivery for projects.
• Develop and manage Engineering Project Plans, covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources.
• Assess design complexity and allocate competent resources using the 'best for task' principle.
• Implement and monitor design quality procedures to achieve a right-first-time approach.
• Engage, select, and manage suppliers and subcontractors to review and integrate design inputs.
• Design development from feasibility studies, optioneering, and detailed designs.
• Apply relevant design standards, British Standards, and Eurocodes in the design of buried pipework and other network ancillaries (e.g., thrust blocks, pumping stations, flowmeters, and control valves).
• Understand and apply Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations, including the duties of the Principal Designer, production of design risk assessments, pre-construction information, and the H&S file.

Who we're looking for

What we are looking for:

• Experience in the water sector and involvement in capital project delivery is highly desirable.
• A BEng or MEng/MSc in Civil Engineering (minimum 2:1) from a recognized university is preferred but not mandatory.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in performing design calculations for infrastructure projects, including pipe design & bedding, thrust blocks, manholes, shaft tanks, and buried attenuation structures, in accordance with British Standards, Eurocodes, and other industry guidelines such as CIRIA and BRE.
• Prior exposure to a Design & Build environment is advantageous but not essential.
• Actively working towards chartered engineer status with a recognized institution such as the Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng MICE).

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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong order book and a positive pipeline of opportunities; we put the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions, and add social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail].