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Design Co-ordinator in Grays

Hybrid in Grays·Full-time·Added today (last checked 10 Nov)

Balfour Beatty

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Our summary

Work mode
Hybrid, Grays
Contract
Permanent, full-time hours
Closing date
Apply by Monday 7 December
Holiday
25 days holiday

Skills

Balfour Beatty is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in Grays.

Requirements

Nice to have

  • Experience in a design coordination, project coordination, engineering, or design management role.
  • Understanding of design assurance processes, and design
    reviews.
  • Familiarity with BIM processes and Common Data Environments
    (e.g., ProjectWise, Bentley iTwin, Autodesk Construction Cloud,
    EMT).
  • Membership of ICE, CIHT, APM, or similar professional institution,
    or actively working towards membership.
  • CSCS card.

The role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Balfour Beatty Highways team on our Lower Thames Crossing Early Works project, we are seeking a proactive and organised Technical Coordinator to support the management, coordination, and assurance of
multidisciplinary design packages across the project lifecycle. You will beWorking closely with the Technical Assurance Manager, design consultants, construction teams, BIM specialists, and supply chain partners, you will help ensure that design information is coordinated, reviewed, approved, and issued in accordance with project requirements, programme commitments, and assurance processes.

This role is ideal for an individual with experience in design management, project coordination, engineering delivery, or BIM who is looking to develop their career within a major infrastructure environment.

Design Coordination & Interface Management

  • The coordination of multidisciplinary design activities across
    highways, structures, geotechnical, drainage, utilities, and
    specialist disciplines.
  • Support preparation of materials for technical assurance reviews
    and client governance meetings.
  • Management of design comments, review cycles, and close-out
    activities.
  • Managing design interfaces between designers, subcontractors,and construction teams.
  • Track design actions, risks, assumptions, and decisions to ensure timely resolution.
  • Facilitate design coordination meetings and record actions,decisions, and commitments.
  • Coordinate submissions to clients, third parties, and statutory undertakers where required.
  • Support implementation of project BIM and information management processes.
  • Coordinate inputs required for design reviews and readiness assessments.
  • Assist with tracking outstanding constraints and dependencies affecting design progression.

Programme & Deliverables Management

  • Monitor progress of the design deliverables against project
    milestones.

Construction Phase Support

  • Assist in managing Requests for Information (RFIs), Technical
    Queries (TQs), and design-related site issues.
  • Support the coordination of the responses between construction and design teams.
  • Track design changes and ensure changes follow project governance requirements.

Stakeholder Management

  • Build effective working relationships with client representatives, design partners, subcontractors, and internal project teams.
  • Support communications relating to design delivery, assurance activities, and programme status.
  • Assist in preparing reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

Essential

  • Experience working on highways, rail, utilities, or major
    infrastructure projects.
  • Understanding of multidisciplinary infrastructure design delivery.
  • Experience managing design information, documentation, and
    programme tracking.
  • Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to coordinate multiple activities and priorities effectively.
  • Excellent communication and reporting skills.
  • Knowledge of CDM Regulations and Design Risk Management.

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 Balfour Beatty

Industry
Construction

In their own words

About the company & team

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 orderbook 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 added social value to the communities within which we work.

Additional information

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do.  Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. 

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments. 

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com

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