Balfour Beatty Design Coordinator, Antje Budge, is featured in The Daily Telegraph’s International Women’s Day supplement discussing her return to work through Balfour Beatty’s Returners Programme.
Following a nine-year career break to raise her children, Antje was keen to return to the engineering sector but had struggled to find a part-time role which would fit with her family commitments.
Balfour Beatty’s Returners Programme, in partnership with Women Returners, provided the ideal opportunity to re-enter the sector. Antje is now working as a Design Coordinator on a road improvement scheme in Merseyside.
Speaking of her experience, Antje said: “As an engineer, you don’t lose your skills. It’s only when you are back in a job that you realise you can still do it. Diversity is so important and you have to value all the things you can bring to a team.”
The Returners Programme is a core component of the company’s diversity and inclusion strategy, open to those who have been out of their career for more than two years.
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Notes to editors:
- Balfour Beatty (www.balfourbeatty.com) is a leading international infrastructure group. With 30,000 employees, we provide innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports communities and enables economic growth. We finance, develop, build and maintain complex infrastructure such as transportation, power and utility systems, social and commercial buildings.
- Our main geographies are the UK, US and South East Asia. Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including the London Olympics’ Aquatic Centre, Hong Kong’s first Zero Carbon building, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
