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About the role
Our Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering business has a terrific opportunity for a Senior Technical Design Engineer to join our team based at our Basingstoke office.
Balfour Beatty’s Ground Engineering business is positioned as the UK’s leading specialist geotechnical contractor, drawing on its knowledge and expertise in delivering innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors, focussing on providing the solid foundations for buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to house foundation packages.
As a senior member of the design team, you will develop bids and tenders to secure work for the business. You'll be responsible for creating innovative and challenging ground engineering solutions for each bid, maximizing our opportunities, and devising solutions that offer added value to the client while meeting their specifications. The business demands the safest and most efficient solutions for every tender and contract, achieving the desired quality metrics and adhering to the client's delivery requirements.
What you'll be doing
Other key responsibilities will be:
Ensuring compliance with design codes and standards, while supporting junior team members.
Collaborating with estimators to support the work-winning process and develop solutions that meet client requirements.
Creating 'winning' solutions through technical expertise and fostering key customer relationships.
Reviewing client drawings and specifications to prepare designs that are both code-compliant and meet client needs.
Examining tender documents and submission requirements.
Evaluating project and technical risks associated with the schemes.
Discussing and reviewing designs with the operations team to highlight and incorporate essential methods, programs, outputs, and plant selection.
Performing designer risk assessments.
Understanding market design solutions and benchmarking our solutions to enhance our success rate.
Finalizing contract designs for submissions to Structural Engineers after contract awards.
Making site visits and conducting technical audits to ensure compliance.
Who we're looking for
You will have the following:
Civil engineering degree or similar
Substantial experience working in piling industry or the geotechnical industry
Must have a valid CSCS card.
Experience of designing geotechnical foundations (load bearing pile and retaining walls)
In depth technical and market knowledge of Ground Engineering
Ability to develop Repute and Plaxis abilities and train others in these activities
Results driven, and able to identify and implement opportunities to increase sales and profit or reduce costs
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 Ground Engineering is one of the UK’s leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.
Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.
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
We are 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:
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