About the role

Technical Author - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies–Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO–delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

We are seeking a Technical Author to play a key role in managing and delivering Digital Operating Manuals for a portfolio of projects. You will be responsible for collating, handling, and ensuring the accuracy and quality of critical documentation, including health & safety files, technical drawings, operation & maintenance data, and original equipment manufacturer documentation.

Your work will directly support the efficient operation and maintenance of assets, ensuring all information is delivered to Anglian Water Operations in a timely and structured manner.

What you’ll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the publication and delivery of Digital Operating Manuals for capital projects, ensuring timely collation, quality review, and management of project documents and drawings.
• Monitor and report on the progress of the Digital Operating Manual Information Delivery Plan (DIDP) across all projects in your portfolio.
• Liaise with Project Teams to ensure a clear understanding of Digital Operating Manual data requirements and effective data management.
• Support improvements in asset data management, participating in the development and implementation of new tools and processes.
• Assist project teams in developing Project-Specific DIDPs at key Delivery Milestones.
• Manage the transfer and organisation of data within SharePoint and BIM360, ensuring compliance with ISO 19650 standards.
• Compile and structure the Digital Operating Manuals, inserting relevant hyperlinks and metadata for seamless document navigation.

Who we’re looking for

What we are looking for:

• A strong understanding of information management principles and best practices, (for example) knowledge and awareness of the UK BIM Framework: BS1192, PAS1192 and ISO 19650 suite of standards (Part 1 & 2).
• Experience with digital delivery tools such as BIM360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) or equivalent.
• Background in data management, governance, and quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of information management principles, with knowledge of UK BIM Framework: BS1192, PAS1192, and ISO 19650 (Parts 1 & 2).

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a high-impact, forward-thinking team shaping the future of asset management. If you have a passion for digital information management, technical documentation, and process innovation, we want to hear from you!

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’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.

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

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.

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

Job Reference: BBUK12954