Position Summary:
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Designer – Geotechnical and OHL Foundations to join our Power Transmission & Distribution business based in Derby.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working closely with Project Teams to determine and maintain common objectives and to ensure work undertaken is appropriate and in accordance with project priorities;
- Specify ground investigation and testing, piling works and other works;
- To work with project team, designers and subcontractors through the design phase to deliver the safe and suitable scope of works in line with the project objectives;
- Undertake design of OHl foundations including the provision of reinforcement;
- Embed Safety by Design principles in all activities, including managing safety through appropriate life cycle designs that minimise risks to personnel and property, by ensuring that Health & Safety
- Regulations and Balfour Beatty procedures and requirements are followed in the design of foundation or geotechnical works;
- Design foundations and/or geotechnical works so that they may be supplied and constructed in accordance with contract documents and/or current practices;
- Provide advice as to the constructability and sequencing of civil design and temporary works designs for Power T&D business. Provide geotechnical support across the range of PT&D workstreams.
- Take responsibility for the design delivery and design suitability for works across Power T&D construction projects with particular focus on Overhead Line (OHL) foundations and geotechnical delivery;
- Analyse contract documents to ensure correct interpretation of customers/consultants intentions;
- Correspond as directed with the Business Units, customer, consultant, vendor (sub-contractor) to ensure the achievement of satisfactory progress and quality. Visit sites and offices to discuss and solve problem issues, as appropriate;
- Attend testing and undertake supervision of installation as required to verify the suitability of design and quality of construction;
- Undertake geotechnical desktop assessments, foundation capacity checks and geotechnical risk assessments including the interpretation of ground investigation information;
- Liaise with appropriate personnel to achieve optimum installation procedures. Undertake site visits as necessary to plan and inspect foundation or geotechnical works;
- Provide on site assessment of geological conditions resulting in design decisions for applicable engineering solutions;
- Support the provision of designs, volumes and quantities as required for tender submissions such that upon contract award, the budget, programme and specification can be achieved;
Required Education & Experience:
- Strong, proven experience of the management of design of civil or geotechnical engineering works;
- Proven experience of the design of civil engineering works;
- Experience in the use of Tekla Tedds.
- Degree level education or equivalent with formal training in civil engineering and/or geotechnical engineering;
- Strong, proven post-graduate experience in the civil engineering industry;
- Experience of the supervision of sub-consultants or subcontractors;
- Extensive experience of geotechnical design;
- IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, CAD);
- Chartered Engineer preferred with either the ICE or Geol Soc;