Design Coordinator - Warrington

Join Balfour Beatty’s Regional Civils team and help shape the future of essential infrastructure across the North West of England. Based out of our Warrington office, you’ll play a pivotal role in coordinating design activities on a diverse portfolio of civil engineering projects—supporting everything from early‑stage design development to construction delivery on site. As a Design Coordinator, you’ll work at the heart of a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, ensuring that design information is accurate, timely, buildable, and aligned with project requirements.

You’ll liaise closely with designers, engineers, supply chain partners, and project teams to drive technical excellence and support the safe, efficient delivery of works across the region. This is an opportunity to join a business with a strong pipeline, a commitment to innovation and sustainability, and a culture that empowers people to grow. If you’re motivated by complex challenges, enjoy problem‑solving, and want to contribute to projects that make a lasting impact on local communities, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, you’ll implement and manage the control of the design process across a range of Civil Engineering and Infrastructure projects, ensuring that all design activities and the procurement of specialist packages are delivered in line with project requirements, programme expectations, and agreed cost parameters. You’ll act as a central link between design teams, commercial colleagues, and operational delivery, making sure that technical information is coordinated, buildable, and fully aligned with Balfour Beatty’s standards for quality and safety.

What you’ll be doing:

• Support and manage the development and implementation of design proposals ensuring they meet customer requirements including budget constraints, presenting proposals for approval to the customer.
• The design should deliver:

• Safety in construction and use
• Quality within affordable parameters
• Ease of maintenance, energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact
• Innovation to meet customer goals and positive impact on the local community.

• Ensure there is a clear schedule of design deliverables.
• Lead gate reviews activities to ensure that they are timely and appropriate sign off is achieved at each project gate.
• Lead the co-ordination and production of design data, bid deliverables, reports and documentation essential to the project and contractual requirements.
• Report progress against the design deliverables programme.

Who we’re looking for:

• Degree / HNC / HND in a Construction / Civil Engineering related subject.
• Progressing towards chartered status with an appropriate institute / institution.
• Previous Design Coordination Experience.
• Preferred previous site experience in Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Projects.
• This role requires an individual with some experience in delivering design services within a Project Delivery environment and successfully implementing design strategies.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.
• Good working knowledge of BIM is required.
• A valid CSCS card is a requirement.
• Excellent IT Skills relevant to the Business Stream are desirable and Microsoft Office is essential.
• Detailed knowledge of codes of practice and other regulatory material, applicable to the Business Stream.
• The individual should have a desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the relevant Business Stream.
• Numeracy and bid/report writing is a requirement.

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:

With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

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 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.