Assistant Engineering Manager

In the context of the Access Skye Project , your responsibilities will include:

Work with the Engineering Manager and Project Manager to ensure Access Skye design requirements are fully understood, clearly defined, and tracked throughout the project's lifecycle.

Coordinate internal and external design teams, ensuring alignment on project scope, design standards, and delivery expectations.

Support the integration of D&E services into the overall Access Skye delivery programme, including ensuring early identification of risks, design clashes, scope gaps, or resourcing issues.

Monitor progress of assigned design packages and produce timely updates, forecasting and reporting on workload, cost-to-complete, and potential emerging issues.

Prepare and issue project status updates, dashboards, or design reports for internal management and external stakeholders.

Capture and communicate any variations to the Contract Scope of Work to the PPPE/SPPE and ensure approval routes are followed.

Assist in the development and review of detailed design plans, deliverables, and technical documentation aligned to Access Skye requirements.

Support optioneering, feasibility assessments, and engineering studies required for substations, overhead lines, cables, and associated enabling works.

Specify, quantify, and assess materials, equipment, or solution options to ensure best value for project outcomes.

Work collaboratively with key stakeholders including Transmission Owner engineering teams, National Grid ESO, SSE, Scottish Power, and DNO partners involved in interface works.

Coordinate with environmental, consenting, land, and construction teams to ensure design considerations are integrated early and risks are mitigated.

Engage with suppliers, manufacturers, and subject matter experts to ensure technical solutions are robust and compliant with both client and statutory requirements.

You will ideally bring:

A relevant engineering degree or equivalent technical experience.

Experience with transmission or distribution design engineering, project engineering, or engineering management.

Strong project controls capabilities and excellent organisational skills.

A good baseline of engineering knowledge across electrical infrastructure projects (substations, OHL, cables, civils, or similar).

Familiarity with multi‑discipline design coordination within large infrastructure programmes.

Strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence and coordinate diverse teams.

Working within D&E on the Access Skye Project provides the opportunity to:

Contribute to a nationally significant transmission investment programme.

Work in a collaborative environment with exposure to multiple disciplines and expert teams.

Access learning and development opportunities aligned to progression toward Engineering Manager or Technical Lead roles.

Benefit from flexible working policies, competitive annual leave, family‑friendly policies, pension, share schemes, volunteering support, and recognition programmes.

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…

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.

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

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.

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